What 13 celebrities look like with and without shaved heads

Audiences saw her long hair in "Star Wars," where she had it pulled back and twisted into fancy rolls fit for her queenly character.

Portman's real hair was shaved in one of the movie's scenes and she told MovieWeb in 2006 that they had to do it in just one take.

Afterward, Portman said that the short hair made her more recognizable on the street.

"With hair, I can camouflage with people [but] as a female with a shaved head, people tend to stare just naturally," she said.

In 2016, the actor told Glamour that, growing up, they were "basically doing anything to make [their hair] look straight."

However, Stenberg eventually came to love their natural hair and wear it with pride.

"Because of seeing people on the internet post pictures with their natural hair, I realized like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually so cool. Why have I been fighting this component of myself for so long?'" they added.

In 2017, the actor shaved their head to play a biracial teen in Nazi Germany. The move was a welcome change-up for the star, who identifies as nonbinary.

"Shaving my head was wild. I felt a sense of complete neutrality," Stenberg told InStyle in 2018. "It was so freeing. This summer I came out as gay and I must say, having no hair made me feel even more comfortable with my gender and sexuality."

For eight films, Radcliffe sported Harry Potter's simple, mussed-up 'do.

In the 2016 film, Radcliffe played an FBI agent going undercover in a group of white supremacists and part of his role called for him to fully shave his head.

"It was very important to both of us that it be captured for real on film; it's an emotional moment for the character as well," Radcliffe told Entertainment Weekly in 2016, speaking about shaving his head in a scene.

He added, "On the day, everyone on the crew was nervous and excited … like the character himself, we were all taking a big step into the unknown when he started using those clippers! And after that moment, there was no looking back."

Once he ditched his long "3rd Rock From The Sun" style, Gordon-Levitt's hair has stayed pretty short.

In the film, the actor played a character who is diagnosed with cancer and in one scene, he has his head shaved.

"My heart was beating hard because we only had one take because you can't shave your head twice. It doesn't work," Gordon-Levitt said in 2011, per MTV News. The scene actually happened on the first day of filming, which made it an even more important shot.

"Normally, you can always do it over again when you're making movies. You get a take two. But we only got take one and it worked," the actor added.

The musician sometimes wears it loose or braids it.

She tweeted that she was not trying to make a statement with the look, she mostly just didn't want to have to worry about going to the hair salon and instead wanted to make time for what's most important to her.

The "Bang Bang" singer's sleek look usually frames her face.

According to HuffPost, Jessie J had her head shaved on live TV for a Comic Relief Red Nose Day fundraiser. Her role in the fundraiser helped, in part, to raise 75 million British pounds, or just under $100 million.

Movies like "Batman Begins" and "American Psycho" utilized his usual hairstyle.

The actor buzzed his hair in 2017 for his role in "Vice." He had to shave his head every day to maintain the bald look during filming, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In Netflix's "The Kissing Booth," her hair was light brown and it fell past her shoulders.

King shaved her head in 2018 to play Gypsy Rose Blanchard on Hulu's true-crime series "The Act."

She told Allure that same year that she had no qualms about ditching her long hair.

"I've never really had an attachment to my hair. I couldn't care less what happens to it," the actor told the magazine.

She added, "No part of me was nervous or was second-guessing it. So many people would ask me, 'Are you really scared?' or 'Are you nervous?' or say, 'You're so brave.' And I'd go, 'I'm not brave. I'm just cutting my hair off.'"

The "Hustlers" star will often wear her hair in styles that go past her shoulders.

In 2017, she told Refinery29 that she wanted a reset for her hair after years of taking on different styles.

"I cut my hair for a couple of reasons," the actress said. "The first being I wanted to start over. My texture has changed quite a bit over the years from all the things I've done to it. I really want to be able to let my hair rest and become its own thing. I also really wanted to be bald!"

Over the years, the star athlete has not changed up his hair too much, although he has styled his it in a bun a few times.

Sky Sports reported that Beckham had a mohawk right before a big match but the captain of his soccer team didn't approve and made him shave it off before he was allowed to get on the field.

"So I had to find a pair of clippers and I shaved it off in Wembley Stadium," Beckham said. "Manager always rules."

It's a different look for the "Fast & Furious 9" star, who usually has blonde hair.

Her character in the post-apocalyptic 2015 film had close-cropped hair, which was Theron's idea for the role, according to People magazine.

"I can't even imagine doing the film any other way. I could never see this character with a ponytail," Theron told the magazine. "I was, like, so over the ponytail in these movies."

She said she felt pretty great about shaving it, too.

"I had just finished two press tours and my hair was destroyed from heat damage, so I was glad to get rid of it," she said. "I was also a new mom and just loved the idea of not having to style my hair every morning. The timing was perfect."

The model and actress often styles her hair in tousled waves or a sleek bun.

In the film "Life in a Year," Delevingne plays a girl who is diagnosed with cancer and she told Elle magazine in 2017 that she was adamant about shaving her head for the role.

"Before I even got the project, I said to the director, 'I want to shave my head for it,'" she told the publication. "My agents and managers were like, 'Please don't! Why would you do that?'"

She said she felt she needed to do it because the movie is about someone who is dealing with cancer and losing one's hair is oftentimes a very real part of that experience. "I needed to feel what it would be like to have no hair," she added.

The musician has had short blonde hair, long blue hair, shoulder-length brown hair, and even pink hair throughout her career.

In 2016, she told Nylon magazine that shaving her hair helped her build up her confidence.

"Hair has also been a big indicator of racial issues in my life," the singer, who is biracial, told the publication. "It's one of the ultimate symbolic struggles for women of color. Shaving my head was important to me because I needed to be able to prove that I could still love myself if I did it."

In 2019, she also told Byrdie she cut her hair off at the time so her vibe would mach her music since singing edgy songs with flowy blue hair "didn't feel right."

"I felt a little too soft, too glamorous, to be singing such worn and weathered music. So I cut all my hair off. And at first, I felt so much better," she told the publication.

"But shaving my head was something I wanted to do for a really long time. And I realized one day that all the reasons I wasn't doing it were really stupid," she explained, saying she was worried if a boy would still think she's pretty without hair.

"But I wanted to do it. Nothing was stopping me except for everyone else's opinion. So as soon as I did it, I felt liberated," she said, adding that she's so happy she did it.

The singer shaved her head again in October 2020 and shared a selfie on Instagram.

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