30 Celebrities Who've Shaved Their Heads

No hair? No problem.

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Guys like Matthew McConaughey and George Clooney get plenty of praise for their full heads of hair, but bald is also beautiful. Need proof? Look no further than Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Some of the celebrities on this list shaved their heads for acting roles; others have done it as a point of personal style. Either way, they make being a cueball look good. So without further ado, here are 30 celebrities who've shaved their heads.

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Terry Crews

In a July appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Crews explained that he isn't actually bald — he just shaves his head every day.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"I'm not bald because I went bald," The Rock tweeted in 2017. "I'm bald because my hair is a cross between an afro and hair from a llama's ball sack."

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Bruce Willis
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Bruce Willis

Willis has warned people not to shave their heads until they know what it looks like under there. Lucky for him, he scored big.

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Tom Hardy
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Tom Hardy

The British actor went bald to play Al Capone in Fonzo.

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Matt Damon

The actor shaved his head for the futuristic 2012 film Elysium.

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Jason Statham
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Jason Statham

When someone asks how to rock a shaved head, the answer is "Jason Statham."

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Kelly Slater
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Kelly Slater

The pro surfer makes a shaved head look totally rad.

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Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise

Cruise went bald for the ending of Minority Report.

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Adam Levine

Adam Levine debuted a bald look on The Voice in 2015 — and Ellen DeGeneres had something to say about it.

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Channing Tatum
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Channing Tatum

Tatum sported a very close shave at a press conference for 2013's Side Effects.

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Alexander Skarsgård
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Alexander Skarsgård

The actor partially shaved his head for a role in 2017 — and people were mighty surprised when they saw it for the first time.

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Marlon Brando

Brando shaved his head to play Colonel Kurtz in 1979's Apocalypse Now.

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James Franco
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James Franco

Franco surprised fans by debuting a shaved head back in 2014. Turns out, it was for the movie Zeroville.

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Jonah Hill
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Jonah HIll

Hill's buzz is a far cry from the curls he sported in 2007's Superbad.

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Brian Cranston
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Brian Cranston

Cranston shaved his head to play Walter White in AMC's Breaking Bad. According to the show's costume designer, Walt started wearing the Heisenberg hat because Cranston needed to keep his bald head protected from the sun.

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Charlize Theron

Theron rocked a shaved head for her ass-kicking role in Mad Max: Fury Road.

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Hugh Jackman

Jackman went bald to play the pirate Blackbeard in 2015's Pan.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

For obvious reasons, the actor only had one take to shave his head in the 2011 film 50/50, where he played a cancer patient.

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Cate Blanchett
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Cate Blanchett

Blanchett, pictured here in 2000, sported a shaved head for her role in 2002's Heaven.

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Kate Hudson

Hudson shaved her head in 2017 for a film directed by Sia. She told Jimmy Kimmel that as it was happening, she thought: "Oh! What is the shape of my head going to look like? I really started to panic."

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Jake Gyllenhaal

Gyllenhaal shaved his head to play a police officer in 2012's End of Watch.

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Shia Labeouf
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Shia Labeouf

The actor sported a bald head at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in 2015.

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Prince William
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Prince William

The British royal debuted a shaved head in 2018.

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Anne Hathaway
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Anne Hathaway

The actress won an Oscar for her role as Fantine in Les Misérables.

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Timothy Olyphant

Olyphant told Entertainment Weekly he wasn't exactly enthusiastic about shaving his head for 2007's Hitman.

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Natalie Portman

Portman went nearly bald for her role in 2005's V for Vendetta.

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Colin Farell
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Colin Farrell

Anyone remember this Colin Farrell look from the early aughts?

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James McAvoy

Here's McAvoy shaving his head to transform into Charles "Professor X" Xavier for X Men: Apocalypse.

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Sigourney Weaver

Who could forget the actress' shaved head in Alien 3?

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Chris Pine
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Chris Pine

Pine showed up at CinemaCon in 2017 with a bald head — turned out, he'd cut it all off because he was bored.