16 celebrities who rock their gray hair

The actress wears her hair short with a natural whitish-gray color that she plays up with bright-white outfits and fashion-forward looks.

According to Yahoo News, Jamie Lee Curtis reportedly quit dyeing her hair in 2017 because she wanted to stop putting "burning chemicals on her head."

The comedian's hair and beard were originally a dark brown, but he went prematurely gray by the time he was 32, according to a Rolling Stone profile from 1977.

Today, Steve Martin's hair looks more white than gray, but it continues to be a staple of his look.

George Clooney has been rocking gray locks since around 2009. At that time, he joked that his gray hair was initially a shock to him when he saw it onscreen.

According to GQ, he said, "I was watching 'Up in the Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old, gray-haired guy?' And it was me."

Today, it appears Clooney has learned to embrace the hue.

Idris Elba hasn't gone completely gray on his head yet, but he's got some silvery whiskers in his beard.

His beard also became an iconic staple to his look and Elba has even said he has insecurities about shaving it for roles.

Not all gray locks are natural. Kelly Osbourne is a big fan of silver and gray hairstyles, and she often infuses them with lavender and purple tones.

"It's something I've wanted to do my whole life, I've always wanted to be young and have gray hair," Osbourne told "The Talk" in 2012, according to the Daily Mail.

The actress debuted her fully gray locks during the 2014 Golden Globes — trading her bottle-blonde days for a more natural hue.

She's been rocking it ever since.

The Bravo host told fans in 2013 that he doesn't color his hair and he's just going with the flow when it comes to it going gray.

"I promise you I'm not dyeing my hair," he said on his show "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" in 2013. "I've never [dyed my hair]."

In recent years, British actress Helen Mirren's blonde locks have turned a silvery-white.

In a 2015 interview with The Daily Mail, Mirren said that women should be fearless with their hair and not worry about changing with the times.

"I loved it when I dyed my hair pink. A lot of women get stuck at what they are good at and what they did between the ages of 18 and 28 and they never have the courage to change that," she told the publication. "Some people have a classic haircut and it works for them and that's great, but it's much better to accept how you look now and then be modern."

Stacy London told Into The Gloss that she dealt with severe psoriasis that interacted with strep throat when she was a child, which, she said, is when her gray streak showed up.

She's rocked the streak for her whole career as a fashion guru and now says she'll never part with it.

"There was a deep sense of insecurity that I traded the grey streak in for as sort of a badge of honor," she said. "Now, I even have a gray clause with Pantene, where I said 'You can do whatever you want to my hair but you can't dye my grey streak.' It's a part of me!"

During his 10 years on "Grey's Anatomy," fans got to see Patrick Dempsey's dark locks turn a little silver.

On a related note, Dempsey actually met his wife, Jillian Fink, at the hair salon she owned in the 1990s. They married in 1999 and she's still known to cut his hair.

Dempsey's "Grey's Anatomy" costar James Pickens Jr. started on the show in 2005, and his beard has gone grayer over time as well.

He rocks it on the series and in real life, too.

The comedian had a head of gray hair on "The Daily Show," but since he left in 2015, he's also grown a gray beard.

The famously funny Jon Stewart is no stranger to cracking jokes about his changing appearance, either.

"This must be so exciting for you to see me here," he said at the 11th annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit in New York City in 2017, according to The Daily Beast. "'Oh, I can't believe it, it's Jon Stewart's grandfather!'"

Meryl Streep has let the natural gray grow into her blonde hair. Fans went wild for the look, especially when they saw Streep with white hair in her iconic role as Miranda Priestly in "The Devil Wears Prada."

She rocked the above look at the 2018 Oscars in a stunning red dress.

When Steve Carell stepped out with a full head of salt-and-pepper gray hair in 2017, fans went wild for the look and even created memes to reflect their positive reactions.

Carell joked about the internet's obsession with his hair with Entertainment Tonight later that year, saying, "I am so sick of people just looking at me for my physical attributes. It's just genetic. There's nothing I can do."

He later added, "I'm bursting with pride. That's very nice."

The resident fashion guru on Netflix's "Queer Eye" has never shied away from his prematurely gray tresses.

"I very much embrace my hair, and even how I'm going gray early, which is very typical for South Asian men," Tan France told Refinery29 in 2018. "I embrace all of these things and I hope it empowers other kids who aren't Caucasian to feel like they should be empowered to be who they are."

Earlier this month, singer Lily Allen took to Instagram to show off her natural, gray-streaked locks. She captioned the photo with the grandma emoji.

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