10 Actors Too Young For The Roles They Played

2. Estelle Getty As Sophia Petrillo

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If you thought Angelina Jolie's one year age difference between her son in Alexander was strange, Golden Girls (1985-1992) goes all out.

This beloved comedy follows a group of older woman, Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Dorothy's mother, Sophia. Estelle Getty who plays Sophia Petrillo was actually younger then her onscreen daughter, played by Bea Arthur.

The comedic timing and fabulous acting Getty brings to the show makes it easy to forget that she was in her early sixties when they began filming, not in her eighties like the character she portrays.

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