See 6 Celebrities Over 60, Then and Now: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, and More
See 6 Celebrities Over 60, Then and Now: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, and More
Giovana GelhorenFri, October 2, 2026 at 3:19 PM UTC
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Many Hollywood powerhouses are now happily enjoying their 60s.
Stars like Tom Cruise and Lenny Kravitz have been open about working on themselves, keeping themselves busy, and being disciplined about their health and bodies in the new age.
Other stars, like George Clooney and Mariska Hargitay, have balanced their fulfilling personal lives with a growing career, including new movies and even Broadway debuts.
Many Hollywood powerhouses, from George Clooney to Sandra Bullock, are now in their 60s, and they aren’t slowing down anytime soon.
Halle Berry, for instance, turned 60 earlier this year, but has continued to steal the screen and wow her followers on social media ever since. “I have adamantly decided I am not going to allow myself to be erased,” Berry told The Cut in February.
Despite making the effort, Berry still felt a change in how the world, and her industry, sees her as she got older. “You get to this age where you feel like you’re being marginalized, devalued,” she said. “You feel it at work. You feel it from society.”
Berry isn’t the only star keeping a positive outlook on life after turning 60. “It’s weird because people seem to want us to be afraid of what it might look like when we get there,” Bullock said in a birthday message to Hoda Kotb in 2024, per People. “Turns out it’s pretty damn great, it’s pretty awesome.”
Below, check out other major Hollywood stars who are also in their 60s, and how their outlook is as they embark on their sixth decade.
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George Clooney
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After turning 60 in May 2021, George Clooney’s career hasn’t slowed down. Recent projects include Ticket to Paradise, IF, Wolfs and Jay Kelly. He’s also stepped back into the director’s and producer’s seat with projects like The Boys in the Boat, The Agency and Furies.
Clooney also reached a major career milestone in March 2025 by making his Broadway debut as the legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in the stage adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck. The show ran for a limited engagement from March to June.
Speaking about turning 60, Clooney said it’s all about keeping healthy and enjoying life. “Knock wood, I’m healthy,” Clooney told Review Journal. “Sixty hit me, and then I realized that I play tennis with guys half my age. I feel good. I have a wonderful family.”
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Clooney has been married to his wife, Amal Clooney, since 2014. They share two children, 9-year-old twins Ella and Alexander.
“I framed aging this way: The next 20 years are halcyon,” Clooney continued. “I need to celebrate each and every one of those years, feel them and just feel happy that I get to live this incredible life.”
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Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock at the ‘Practical Magic 2’ premiere on August 31, 2026.Credit: Getty Images
When Hollywood leading lady Sandra Bullock turned 60, the milestone was bittersweet. Just one year earlier, she said goodbye to her longtime partner, Bryan Randall, after his private three-year battle with ALS.
“She’s doing okay now,” a source close to the actress told People at the time. “Her kids are amazing. She’s very happy to be a mom.” Bullock is a proud mom to two kids, Louis, 16, and Laila, 12.
“Her friends gave her the support that she needed both during his illness and afterwards. She is grateful for all the love,” the source added. “Everyone helped to lift her up after Bryan passed.”
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As for her career, Bullock famously took a break from acting in 2022 following the press tour for The Lost City. Four years later, she returned to screens in the long-awaited sequel Practical Magic 2 alongside Nicole Kidman. Per IMDb, she is hitting the ground running in her return, with three unnamed acting projects already coming up.
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Lenny Kravitz
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Lenny Kravitz turned 60 in May 2024, but he’s been aging like fine wine long before.
“I can barely believe [I’m 60] myself. But it’s beautiful,” he told The Guardian at the time, adding that his good looks are a “combination of genes, self-care, hard work and discipline.”
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“Take last night. I worked all day, interviews, rehearsing into the night, get home at 11 pm,” he remembered. “I need to eat something. Now it’s 1 am. I didn’t get my workout. So I went to the gym, and I did a 90-minute workout at 2 am. I don’t want to be in the gym at 2 am, but I know that I must.”
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As for his career, Kravitz, who’s a dad to daughter Zoë Kravitz, has continued performing and releasing new music. In 2024, he released his 12th studio album, Blue Electric Light, which the extensive Blue Electric Light Tour followed. That same year, he also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and accepted the Music Icon Award at the People’s Choice Awards.
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Halle Berry
Halle Berry at the ‘Crime 101’ premiere on February 10, 2026.Credit: Getty Images
Actress Halle Berry turned 60 earlier this year in August. For her new era, Berry is putting acting in the back seat and focusing on women’s health. “[It’s] a formidable cause for my second act,” she told The Cut.
“I’ve had a 30-year career being an actor, but what empowers me and what feels really good is I can take my second act,” Berry told the outlet. “It’s been the joy of my life in so many ways, but taking the second act and really focusing it on women’s health, I can’t think of a better way to spend my next chapter of my life.” As part of her new phase, Berry launched Respin, “an empowering community redefining menopause and female longevity.”
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Despite her new purpose in life, Berry has continued acting. Recent projects include Crime 101, The Union, Never Let Go, and Bruised. Per IMDb, she also has seven upcoming projects currently in production.
As for her personal life, Berry is a proud mom to her two children, Nahla and Maceo-Robert. She also confirmed her engagement to Van Hunt in February 2026. “He did put a little ring on it,” Berry said during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Mariska Hargitay
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay turned 60 in January 2024, and she was absolutely thrilled for the milestone. “I’m proud of it,” she told People at the time. “I’m stronger than I’ve ever been.”
“The age thing was never something I was scared of,” Hargitay said. “I didn’t get cast [on SVU] until I was 35 and then the show kept going as I aged.” She then listed some major milestones, like getting married to her husband Peter Hermann at 40, and having her first son, August, at 42. Hargitay’s also a proud mom to kids Amaya and Andrew. “It was like defying all the odds,” she said.
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In addition to her work on SVU, which has made her the longest-running female lead in a prime-time live-action series in American television history, Hargitay has had many recent career highs. In May 2026, she made her Broadway debut in a six-week run of the solo play Every Brilliant Thing.
In 2025, she also launched her production company, Mighty Entertainment, and directed and produced the award-winning documentary My Mom Jayne, about her late mother Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay went on to win two Emmys for the movie: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Speaking of Emmys, Hargitay also hosted the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming the first woman in 15 years to solo host the show.
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Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise at the premiere of ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ in 2025.Credit: Getty Images
Tom Cruise has been one of the most hard-working actors in Hollywood, and he won’t be slowing down anytime soon.
“Life, I’m coming right at it. It’s coming at me and I’m coming right at it,” Cruise told GQ in September 2026. “I am not a halfway kind of person. I’m just not. And I never want to be like: ‘You hit that peak.’ There’s always a new dream.”
Also in the interview, he was asked what turning 64 meant to him. “It means I’m 64,” he said simply. “I’m going; there’s so much life, and there’s always another dream,” he continued. “I think that a person without a dream, they’ve decided not to live.”
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Since turning 60 in July 2022, Cruise has been working in major productions, including Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, and Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. His latest movie, Digger, is currently in theaters.
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