Actors Who Were Way Too Old for Their Roles

Stockard Channing in ‘Grease’

Paramount Pictures

Admittedly, the role of the Pink Ladies’ leader Betty Rizzo required a jaded world-weariness that most teens don’t possess, and Stockard Channing knocked her performance out of the park, but were we really supposed to believe that the 33-year-old was a high school senior? You can’t help but feel that Rizzo’s teen pregnancy scare would have been more impactful if the character was portrayed by an actual teenager.

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