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* ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' has then-28-year-old Creator/MarisaTomei's Lisa as the fiancée of then-49-year-old Creator/JoePesci's Vinny. Lisa and Vinny have been together for at least ten years, Lisa has a niece who's getting married and goes on a rant about how [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking her biological clock is ticking]], so it's unlikely that this is a case of AgeGapRomance and Lisa is probably supposed to be older than Tomei was at the time.

* In TheNewTens, when the annual Hall of Fame inductions came around, it became increasingly suspicious at how much younger the female inductees were compared to the men. The initial women inducted into the Hall of Fame were Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah, Wrestling/SherriMartel, Wrestling/MaeYoung and Wrestling/WendiRichter - who were indeed older, and the younger two (Wendi and Sherri) were in their late forties and had been retired for nearly two decades. The next inductees [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]], Wrestling/TrishStratus and {{Wrestling/Lita}} were much younger (their late thirties in fact) and, given Sunny's status as MsFanservice when she was in WWE, may have been sending [[OldMaid mixed messages]]. Wrestling/BethPhoenix and the Wrestling/BellaTwins' inductions came as a shock both because of their youth (Beth at 36 was the youngest inductee, beating Trish's record when she went in) and how soon the inductions came after their retirements - Trish, Lita and Sunny had been gone from wrestling altogether for nearly a decade, whereas Beth and the Bellas had only a couple of years out of the company and were the same age as some of the women still wrestling actively in it. Of the other female inductees - {{Wrestling/Ivory}} and {{Wrestling/Jacqueline}} were in their mid-fifties while Wrestling/TorrieWilson, Wrestling/MollyHolly and Wrestling/StacyKeibler were all 43 when they were inducted.

* In WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy episode “The Grim Show”, Grimm’s favorite horror hostess Atrocia, an Elvira parody, is being forced to retire because she’s turning 30, and no one wants to watch “an old bat like her” anymore.

* ''Series/{{Slasher}}'': Sarah is supposed to be around 30, but her grandmother Brenda is played by an actress who would be more convincing as her mother (who is already dead within the show's storyline) or aunt.

* Creator/ChristopherLloyd (born in 1938) was 47-years-old when he played Doc Brown in the original ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (1985). During the portion of the movie when Marty {{time travel}}s back to [[TheFifties 1955]], Doc is in his forties too. But during the scenes set in the present year of [[TheEighties 1985]], Doc is in his seventies -- though as with Creator/AlbertFinney mentioned above, Lloyd is aged up rather convincingly. ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' forgoes the old age makeup for Doc, since in the sequels Lloyd is predominately playing the 1985 Doc in his seventies, rather than the 1955 Doc in his forties as he did in the first movie. Rather than having Lloyd wear old age makeup for the majority of his screen time in the sequels, Doc mentions that he underwent a [[FountainOfYouth rejuvenating procedure]] (and [[TooMuchInformation got his spleen and colon replaced]] to boot), which he demonstrates by removing his old age makeup to reveal that he now looks identical to how he looked in 1955, aside from the hair.

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[[caption-width-right:320:Hypatia of Alexandria at the ripe young age of 65.]]

->''"...young adults pretending to look like grown-ups."''
-->--'''WebVideo/ScreenJunkies''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1aqfnIr2Y in their]] WebVideo/{{Honest Trailer|s}} for the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies

# The actor and the character are technically the same age, but the actor looks much younger because of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Botox]], plastic surgery, etc. The character is a real person who looked their age or a fictional character inhabiting a time, place, or economic situation in which such things aren't available.

* Edie [=McClurg=] played a woman going to her 30-year high school reunion in an episode of ''Series/MrBelvedere''. In the episode, she looked like she could be in her 40's while everyone else at the reunion looked like they could be in their 50's or 60's.

** In season seven, a big deal is made out of the Ponds moving on with their lives and aging every time the Doctor comes back to see them (they mention having traveled with the Doctor for 10 years and in their last appearance, Amy now needs reading glasses). The problem with that second bit? Not one bit of effort is made to make Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan look like anything other than extremely attractive people in their early thirties. Although considering Amy was maybe nineteen in her first episode and about twenty-one during season five, "early thirties" arguably ''is'' them aging and moving on with their lives.

** Inverted where Creator/BarbaraHershey plays Regina's mother Cora in her sixties. Her younger self is played by Creator/RoseMcGowan - who was ''forty'' ([[OlderThanTheyLook but didn't look it]]). It's not said ''how'' young Cora is in those flashbacks, but one of them revolves around her being DefiledForever after being tricked into sleeping with a scoundrel - suggesting she's in her twenties and thus wouldn't be married yet.

** Caroline Morahan as Queen Elinor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' probably would have been the right age if the show took place in the same timeframe as the film. But it's at least ten years later, with Merida being a grown woman ready to ascend the throne of [=DunBroch=]. Charitably, you could say that Amy Manson (who was 29) is playing Merida a few years younger, and Elinor may have been a young mother.

** A strange case with Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen from ''Snow White''. She's only a year older than Creator/GinniferGoodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable that Regina's relatively young since she's the stepmother and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a TrophyWife, a child actress plays Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting, where teenaged Regina is still played by Parilla. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.[[note]]It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her", but changed their minds later on, since nothing about Regina's motivation established subsequently in the show fits with that statement - she hates Snow because the latter broke a promise not to tell Regina's mother Cora about Regina's romance with Daniel the stable boy, unintentionally leading to Daniel's death and trapping Regina in marriage to Snow's father.[[/note]]
** Inverted where Barbara Hershey plays Cora in her sixties. Her younger self is played by Creator/RoseMcGowan - who was ''forty'' ([[OlderThanTheyLook but didn't look it]]). It's not said ''how'' young Cora is in those flashbacks, but one of them revolves around her being DefiledForever after being tricked into sleeping with a commoner - suggesting she's in her twenties and thus wouldn't be married yet.
** While ItMakesSenseInContext for mother and daughter Snow and Emma to be the same age, around Season 4 they started dressing Ginnifer Goodwin down in an attempt to make her look older so she could come across as a more maternal figure.
** The Blue Fairy's counterpart in Storybrooke is the Mother Superior of the nuns. In most traditions, a Mother Superior has to be at least forty, and her actress Keegan Connor Tracy was only mid-thirties. Of course AWizardDidIt, so we can't expect Regina to be completely accurate when creating her curse.
** Caroline Morahan as Queen Elinor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' probably would have been the right age if the show took place in the same timeline as the film. But it's at least ten years later, with Merida being a grown woman ready to ascend the throne. Charitably, you could say that Amy Manson (who was 29) is playing Merida a few years younger, and Elinor may have been a young mother.
** Victoria Smurfitt joked that she saw Cruella as a DirtyOldWoman and treated as such, despite her only being in her forties when she played her (and the flashback establishing Cruella's backstory treats her as a young woman).

** A strange case with Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen from ''Snow White''. She's only a year older than Creator/GinniferGoodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable that Regina's relatively young since she's the stepmother and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a TrophyWife, a child actress plays Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting, where teenaged Regina is still played by Parilla. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.[[note]]It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her" but changed their minds later on, since nothing about Regina's motivation established subsequently in the show fits with that statement - she hates Snow because the latter broke a promise not to tell Regina's mother Cora about Regina's romance with Daniel the stable boy, unintentionally leading to Daniel's death and trapping Regina in marriage to Snow's father.[[/note]]

** A strange case with Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen from ''Snow White''. She's only a year older than Creator/GinniferGoodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable that's relatively young since she's the stepmother and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a TrophyWife, a child actress plays Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting, where teenaged Regina is still played by Parilla. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.[[note]]It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her" but changed their minds later on, since nothing about Regina's motivation established subsequently in the show fits with that statement - she hates Snow because the latter broke a promise not to tell Regina's mother Cora about Regina's romance with Daniel the stable boy, unintentionally leading to Daniel's death and trapping Regina in marriage to Snow's father.[[/note]]

** A strange case with Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen from ''Snow White''. She's only a year older than Creator/GinniferGoodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable her appearing younger, since she's the stepmother, and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a TrophyWife - a child actress plays Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting, where teenaged Regina is still played by Parilla. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.[[note]]It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her" but changed their minds later on, since nothing about Regina's motivation established subsequently in the show fits with that statement - she hates Snow because the latter broke a promise not to tell Regina's mother Cora about Regina's romance with Daniel the stable boy, unintentionally leading to Daniel's death and trapping Regina in marriage to Snow's father.[[/note]]

** A strange case with Lana Parilla as the evil queen from ''Snow White''. She's only a year older than Creator/GinniferGoodwin - who plays Snow White. While it's justifiable her appearing younger, since she's the stepmother, and her backstory episode pretty much says she was a TrophyWife - a child actress played Snow in the episode that depicts them meeting. And ironically the show eliminates the 'wish to remain young and beautiful' aspect from the character.[[note]]It's possible there was a plan to include that aspect, as the pilot has a line where Snow says "She poisoned an apple because she thought I was prettier than her" but changed their minds later on.[[/note]]

** In season seven, a big deal is made out of the Ponds moving on with their lives and aging every time the Doctor comes back to see them (they mention having traveled with the Doctor for 10 years). The problem with that second bit? Not one bit of effort is made to make Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan look like anything other than extremely attractive people in their early thirties. Although considering Amy was maybe nineteen in her first episode and about twenty-one during season five, "early thirties" arguably ''is'' them aging and moving on with their lives.

** Later {{Justified}} in the ExpandedUniverse as the D'ni are a superhumanly long-lived race.
* Sun Jian in the ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' franchise has three adult-aged kids and sports an entire head of white hair, yet he is still physically fit for fighting and doesn't look much older than 35. Somewhat {{Justified}}, as the real life Sun Jian was killed in his 30's.

* In TheNewTens, when the annual Hall of Fame inductions came around, it became increasingly suspicious at how much younger the female inductees were compared to the men. The initial women inducted into the Hall of Fame were Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah, Wrestling/SherriMartel, Wrestling/MaeYoung and Wrestling/WendiRichter - who were indeed older, and the younger two (Wendi and Sherri) were in their late forties and had been retired for nearly two decades. The next inductees [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]], Wrestling/TrishStratus and {{Wrestling/Lita}} were much younger (their late thirties in fact) and, given Sunny's status as MsFanservice when she was in WWE, may have been sending [[OldMaid mixed messages]]. Wrestling/BethPhoenix and the Wrestling/BellaTwins' inductions came as a shock both because of their youth (Beth at 36 was the youngest inductee, beating Trish's record when she went in) and how soon the inductions came after their retirements - Trish, Lita and Sunny had been gone from wrestling altogether for nearly a decade, whereas Beth and the Bellas had only a couple of years out of the company and were the same age as some of the women still wrestling actively in it. Of the other female inductees - {{Wrestling/Ivory}} and {{Wrestling/Jacqueline}} were in their mid-fifties while Wrestling/TorrieWilson and Wrestling/MollyHolly were both 43 at least.

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Two notable examples are Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen who start as 14-15 years played by the then 20 years old Milly Alcock and 18 years old Emily Carey. After the 10 years time jump that takes place in episode 6, the two actresses are replaced by Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy, both of them matching the age of the characters, who are 29-30 years old. This trope starts to apply to Alicent and Rhaenyra starting with episode 8 which takes place after another 6 years time jump.

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Two notable examples are Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen who start as 14-15 years played by the then 20 years old Milly Alcock and 18 years old Emily Carey. After the 10 years time jump that takes place in episode 6, the two actresses are replaced by Olivia Cooke and Emma D'Arcy, both of them matching the age of the characters, who are 29-30 years old. This trope starts to apply to Alicent and Rhaenyra starting with episode 8 which takes place after another 6 years time jump.
** Daemon Targaryen is an odd example. He is around 30 in the pilot, played by the then 37 years old Math Smith. After approximately 2 decades InUniverse, he is 50 years old and a decade older than Math Smith.