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How the Cast of The O.C. Aged Throughout the Show

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How the Cast of The O.C. Aged Throughout the Show

The Fox drama The O.C. premiered on August 5, 2003, and when it did, it not only got Phantom Planet's song "California" permanently stuck in our heads, but it also gave us a look into the lavish mansions and lifestyles of Newport Beach, CA. In such an insular, cliquish society, it's not much of a surprise that everyone always looked damn good - and hardly appeared to age. 

Though the show only aired four seasons, the characters went through a number of ups and downs - from jail to alcohol addiction, death, pregnancies (yes, plural), and marriage - all without ever seeming to age much at all. The O.C. taught us about family, friendship, Chrismukkah, Death Cab for Cutie, and what it means to be young and rich. 

In the world of Newport Beach, where Botox is a-plenty, it makes sense that the characters from The O.C. hardly aged from Season 1 through Season 4. But looking the same for several years can be tough for an actor. So take a look at these before-and-after photos of your favorite O.C. cast members, and see how well they maintained their character's look over four long years.


How the Cast of The O.C. Aged Throughout the Show,

Adam Brody

Adam Brody was 23 when he first started playing the adorkable Seth Cohen. Over the course of The O.C.'s four seasons, Seth became a teen heartthrob and geek icon. Brody told US magazine that he looks back at the role the same way one might look back at college. "I mean, maybe it's the equivalent of, like, 'Do you miss being back in college?' - which I never went to, but... there are fun things about it. But that character? No. That was a character from 2004, and it's very much of that time... My interests don't lie there at all anymore." Throughout his time on the show, Brody visibly aged, but just barely - exactly like you'd expect a young adult to.


Kelly Rowan

Kirsten "Kiki" Cohen (played by Kelly Rowan) battled daddy issues, a drinking problem, and then a pregnancy, all the while looking flawless. The Valentine's Day-loving Kiki was everyone's dream mom and Rowan somehow managed to end the series looking even better than when she started.


Melinda Clarke

Melinda Clarke played the manipulative but highly entertaining character of Julie Cooper, mother of Mischa Barton's character. After she divorced her husband, Jimmy (Tate Donovan), her second - and much older - husband died. Julie then became addicted to painkillers, but in the end, she decided to go back to college and finish her degree, looking even more refined than she ever did. Her new hair color and cut helped show that Julie had truly undergone a personal transformation.


Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton, who was 16 when she first acted on The O.C., definitely grew up during her three seasons on the show. In fact, as Barton explained, the show kind of forced her to grow up too fast. "It’s tough. It’s really tough when you are young in this business. People blow a lot of hot air at you... Even when you think your head is on your shoulders, sometimes it isn’t. It’s just one of those things when you are growing under a microscope, and changing, and, that evolution is human." By the end of her run on the series, Barton looked more run-down than when she started, which was consistent with her character's slow downward spiral.


Peter Gallagher

Peter Gallagher is known for his role as Sandy Cohen on The O.C. (among many others), but he is also known for his infamous eyebrows. Throughout the seasons those eyebrows never changed, just like Sandy never wavered in his role as a protective, honest, bagel-loving, sarcastic, and super-awesome dad. Gallagher looked even more vibrant at the end of the series than at the beginning, which makes sense, considering that Sandy's positive outlook definitely would have helped fend off premature signs of aging.


Rachel Bilson

Rachel Bilson was actually only supposed to appear as Summer in a few episodes, but her chemistry with Mischa Barton was so good that the writers gave her a bigger role as the series went on. Bilson soon became a series regular,  and Summer constantly tugged on Seth's heartstrings before the two characters married at the end of the series. While she started off as a total Newport snob, Summer evolved and eventually went through a hippie phase while attending Brown University. Looking at the pictures above, it's clear that Bilson really transformed from looking like a typical high-schooler to a mature college student.


Tate Donovan

While we all might have thought that Jimmy Cooper (Tate Donovan) was a victim of his wife's manipulations the first time we watched The O.C., let's just all be honest about the fact that he was a total douche from the get-go. He continuously screwed up, made life extremely difficult for his wife and daughter, and somehow managed to always paint himself as the victim. At the end of the series, Jimmy looked noticeably more ragged, which serves him right after all the sh*t he pulled.


Ben McKenzie

Ben McKenzie was 25 (playing a teenager) during the first season of The O.C. And while he might have passed as a teen in the first season, that was definitely not the case by the last season, in which he looked more mid-twenties than late teens. 




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