Actors & Actresses with Large Heads...Small Bodies Who have you seen?

Christina Ricci.

Wait, do you mean actors we've seen in person? In that case, no one, Christina Ricci is a cute little bobble head though.

One I haven't seen but is real obvious in pictures is Susan Lucci.

Sarah Jessica Parker?

This is a well-known rule: movie actors have big heads. I could look it up, but can't be bothered. But there's a reason. Some casting director once said when he sees an actor with a big head, he knows that person will be compelling on screen.

R4..Brwhahaha! Big head says says what?

It's not that their head is big, it only appears that way because they keep themselves so very, very skinny.

You rang?

John Travolta. His head is too big for his toupee.

Sharon Osborne and her kids.

Lollipop, lollipop...

OK, here we go... "The transformation is physical as well as moral. In real life, many actors look rather odd: directors like them to be very short (it’s astonishing what Mark Wahlberg packs into his 5ft 7in) with a huge head. Why? Because low height is easier for shot composition and a big face fills the screen. The transfiguring close-up creates an extraordinary (false) intimacy between actor and audience – and real star power is the ability to communicate everything with an angelic smile that would be invisible in real life: the words on the page made flesh."

Why Movie Stars Have Big Heads September 11, 2012 by Scott W. Smith Today I found a new source for fresh material—Facebook. And one today with a Hollywood—Iowa connection. Author David Morrell (First Blood) posted some thoughts today about why movie stars often have big heads—and he wasn’t talking about egos.

“Yesterday I posted about having watched Burt Lancaster give an acting seminar to the University of Iowa’s drama department when I was a professor in the English department. People ask, ‘What did he look like?’ The same as he did in his movies, especially his broad smile. Most major movie stars have one distinguishing characteristic. Their heads are large in a way that is out of proportion with their bodies. McQueen, Newman, Stallone, etc. Director Norman Jewison called move stars’ heads ‘Roman.’ The camera likes the perspective that a large head gives to an actor. In person, it looks a little unnatural, but onscreen, the large head allows them to dominate.”

"I noticed when Cate Blanchett and Matthew McConaughey won Oscars, they were so similar. They both have enormous heads and long faces, tall, thin bodies with very long necks. Whenever they posed with anybody else, they looked odd, their heads were so much bigger than normal people, but photographed together they looked like the perfect humans. You couldn't look away. They were riveting."

Kelly Rippa

David Morell is an embarrassment to The University of Iowa. He is confusing his over inflated ego with an actual big head.

R11

Okay, well I looked up Cate Blanchett and Matthew McConaughey in these photos (at the Oscars) together and also photos of them with other people and OMG.. This is not only true, I am completely fucked up in my brain looking at them now, geezzzz thanks a lot dude.

It's a common indicator of anorexia.

Ben Affleck...huge horse head..

Second for Travolta.

The 4 winners at the Oscars last year - Blanchett, McConaughey, Lupita and Leto were so beautiful. Really I bet the best looking group of actors in Oscar history. Some Oscar blogger commented on their photo saying "thank God. Beautiful people are finally getting some recognition."

R15

Agree.. Yet Matthew McConaughey is strong and a muscular type, as well as Mark Wahlberg, Its so freaking bizarre.

Tom Cruise

It's like the "Mars Attack' of actors..

R15 McConaughey's tall though. He's 6 ft but I've noticed he has bad posture, he slouches all the time. Maybe it's because the directors and cinematographers shrink him in the frame.

Is it possible we just like discussing anything to do with head, like giving head or receiving it maybe on DL?

Minnie Driver. She's like a cube-shaped candy apple.

They're not actors, but I think Vanna White and Pat Sajack have large heads. I've noticed McConaughey's head looks much larger than his wife's when they are photographed together, but he's still good looking imho. I just wish he hadn't done the extreme dieting for that movie.

Michael Caine talked about this in an interview..

Calista Flockhart

Natalie Portman

Hayden Panitierre (sp?).

Elaine Benes

"Hollywood equation: big head = big box office. Actors with disproportionately large heads (Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise) convey physical authority that men with proportional heads (Josh Duhamel) do not. A big head works in close up and long shot."

I was waiting with my clients in the green room of an Espy Awards show back in the early 2000s when Lara Flynn Boyle walked in. Everybody gasped, but not in a good way. She was shockingly thin and had a humongous head, with razor sharp cheekbones and big pop eyes. Very lollipop.

Recently , Giada de Laurentiis.

R25 Vanna White does have a big head. I remember seeing Sajack on a talk show in the eighties talking about Merv Griffens big head theory. Griffen produced Wheel and he discovered Vanna, this was when she was a big deal. Sajack was giggling when he talked about the big head theory, basically he thought big headed people were more telegenic.

Guilana Rancid. Lollipop Heads. The mark of the true eating disorder. These actors withhold food like it is written in the contract, And it is. As they lose too much weight, the body begins to shrink. Its a pathetic damaging Hollywood practice

Aaron Paul.

Thank you so much for this thread, now I will be obsessed with gooning the size of people's heads. A few months back there was the short torso/long torso thread and now I can barely concentrate on major league baseball for fixating on long torso/short torso. Stop fucking with my average size head DL.

McConaughey and Blanchett's gigantic heads atop their long necks and skinny bodies

Kirsten Dunst

Seth MacFarlane. He reminds me of a lit up Jack O' Lantern.

Richard Burton.

Peter Dinklage

Chloe Sevigny has the biggest head I've ever seen. Regis Philbin is another bobble head.

What's her face, the Italian one from Food Network should be the biggest movie star in the world.

my boi lollipop

r3.....the OP said large head...not horse head.

Vince Vaughn

R46 Vince Vaughn doesn't exactly have a small body.

I saw Ben Stiller in person a few years ago, and he fits this description. His wife, Christine Taylor, is normally proportioned and very pretty.

R47

And matthew mcconaughey is? Just because Vince is tall and not so thin as he used to be does not not mean his head is tiny, and SJP does have a big head as well, just shaped liked a long horse face.

Just look at the size when he was thinner back in the day.. HUGE!

I wonder if the actresses had normal and not anorexic bodies if their heads would still be too big for the bodies?

R43

I think Giada de Laurentiis was mentioned if thats who you mean..

You mean like Furious' Lucas Black?

Im surprised no one has mentioned Adrian Grenier, who looks like shit these days...

Giada DiLaurentis was such a bobblehead when she first came on TV that she even looked bobblehead ON CAMERA! She gained a couple of pounds after she had the baby, and it did wonders for how she looked on camera. Her head no longer seemed 5X too large for her tiny body and twig arms (just 2x), and of course the cleavage improved.

All the young Disney and Nickeloden starlets are scrawny little bobbleheads; I see them pop up on the celebrity fashion blogs, and the bobble heads and twig bodies make them all look alike. That's why I can't remember any of their names, I'm sure.

Nancy Reagan. She was an actress.

Rachel Zoe ( not an actress) Nicole Richie Hugh Jackman The Rock

R56 = Jane Wyman

Michael Caine s quote at R26 is interesting. He also says that if you can see the whites above your eyes at normal resting face you will never be a star because it's disconcerting to audiences.

I'm not an actress, but I kinda think I fit the bill!

Ah! Giada inherited that giant head from her legendary granny Silvana Mangano!

r59

Michael is right.

Lack of eyelashes is also disconcerting.

Fisher Stevens owns this thread.

Sarah Hyland

OMG how does Fisher Stevens skinny neck hold up his big head?

Elmer Fudd

Scarlett Johansson has a huge head.

Joan Crawford and Bogart are two golden age examples.

Great thread! This is so true, and also the reverse is true. Someone cited Josh Duhamel, there are others. Somehow a big head conveys charisma and presence on screen. Tim Robbins is well-known, but he never made it really big, and aside from his baby face (or at least baby eyes), I'm convinced it's because he's so tall with a head that is big, sure, but also proportionate to his body. So it doesn't really work, movie-wise.

What looks great on screen isn't necessarily what looks great in person, and vice-versa.

Lee Pace is a tall man whose head is proportional, even smallish.

Perhaps that's why he can't climb up from the B list to the A list, although IMHO the B list is a great place for an actor like him to be. Greater variety of interesting work, longer career, etc.

Randy Harrison

The big beautiful head of Dolores Del Rio.

TYRA BANKS LITERALLY OWNS THIS THREAD!

[quote]“I have come to think that being looked at obsessively by people you don’t know actually changes the way your face and body are assembled – not just in the obvious ways of enhanced fashion sense or tricks of charm and self-possession, but in the illusion of size. The heads of world-class celebrities literally seem to enlarge. Hillary Clinton’s, for instance, has grown enormously since she was the mere wife of the governor of Arkansas. It nods when she talks to you like a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The years of limelight so inflated the circumference of Jackie O’s cranium, it seemed her real face must be concealed by an oversized Halloween mask. If you looked into her eyes, you could see her in there somewhere, screaming.”