Bottle Brunettes?
Blondes may really have more fun, but these actors and actresses don't think so. Although they were born with natural golden locks that most performers would dye for, they got famous with an entirely different hair color.
Emma Stone
Emma Stone looks so good with her red hair in movies like Easy A and Superbad, it's hard to believe she's really a blonde.
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Emma's Red Hot Looks
Stone's hair colorist Tracey Cunningham thinks there's a reason she seems like such a natural redhead: she has the coloring of a one with her pale, creamy skin. Stone herself also prefers it, once saying, "I'm a natural blonde, but I really like the red."
Angelina Jolie
It's pretty incredible to realize that the gothic Angelina Jolie is a natural blonde, but believe us when we say it's true.
Going To The Dark Side
According to Jolie, her mother was the first one dye her hair dark, when she was only four or five years old. From then on, she never really went back unless it was for a role.
Sophie Turner
Like Emma Stone, Sophie Turner is a natural blonde who reached for red hair dye. But while Stone seems to have done it mostly because she prefers it, Turner is another story.
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For The Love Of A Role
Turner transformed into a redhead for the role of Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones. Her iconic turn as the steely Stark sister cemented her as a redhead in the eyes of audiences.
A Blonde At Heart
In the end, Sophie Turner prefers being a blonde—and not just because her work on the set of Game of Thrones had her dyeing her hair twice a week. Turner has said she feels "more at home" with her blonde hair.
Leighton Meester
Leighton Meester is famous for playing the brunette mean girl Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl. Even so, she's a natural blonde. Thing is, Blair Waldorf could totally be a blonde.
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There Can Only Be One
Casting producers liked the blonde Meester a lot when she tried out for the role of Blair Waldorf, but they wanted Blair's BFF Serena, played by Blake Lively, to be a blonde. They also wanted audiences to easily differentiate between the two, so they asked Meester to go darker.
It worked out, and a brunette icon was born.
Amy Adams
Amy Adams' natural hair is a light strawberry blonde, but that was apparently TOO blonde for people when she first started her career.
Revving Up The Red
Adams claims that when she was first auditioning, she seemed to only get bites for ditzy roles. But then when she went true red, suddenly she was flirtatious and fun.
Cole Sprouse
Although he may have gained the most fame as the dark-haired Jughead in Riverdale, fans of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody will remember that Cole Sprouse is actually a natural blonde.
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Two Of A Kind
Despite having to go through a two-time-a-week dyeing regime to maintain Jughead's black locks, Sprouse admitted he doesn't mind the black hair. He says it helps people tell him and his twin brother Dylan Sprouse apart now.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara is a sultry brunette...or is she? In fact, she's a natural blonde. But when she went to America to act, casting agents seemed to have trouble with the idea of a blonde Latina and, as Vergara said, "they didn't know where to put me." So, she took to dyeing her hair darker.
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Kristen Stewart
Although she starred in movies before, Kristen Stewart rocketed to fame as the mousy Bella in Twilight, and most fans still think of her as a brunette to this day. She actually has dirty blonde hair, though.
Bella Thorne
Disney star Bella Thorne has been famous for her red locks ever since she was on Big Love, but she dyed her natural blonde hair for that role. And she's very attached to the color red.
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Don't Do It For Disney
Thorne revealed that when she worked for Disney, she came in with red hair and they wanted to take her all the way back to blonde. She was so attached to her dyed hair, however, that she "had a breakdown and so overreacted."
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Mandy Moore
Since launching her hit acting career in A Walk to Remember, Mandy Moore has been firmly on team brunette. But those who remember her pop star career before that might realize she's a natural blonde.
Getting Into Character
Moore says that her brunette dye job, which she has since mostly kept since her early days, was more than just a change of color. She said it made people see her differently and helped her properly get into character.
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde is smart, sassy, and a natural blonde. But this actor and director is definitely more known for wearing her hair brown.
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Blondes Have More Baggage
Wilde claims that she's always felt "like brunette," particularly because of the way people treated her when she wore her natural hair. By her account, "People used to be shocked when I was a blonde that I wasn't stupid."
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is famous for her pin-up girl style, including her dark hair. But for the first decades of her life, she was a blonde.
Nature Doesn't Always Know Best
Even though Katy Perry has natural blonde hair, she despises her true color. She once called it "dishwasher squirrel brown."
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet was an iconic redhead when she played Rose in Titanic, so much so that it's hard to remember she's naturally a blonde. But unlike many other actors on this list, she didn't keep up her dyed locks.
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A Titanic Effort
Winslet has admitted that she had a rough time keeping her red hair in tip-top shape on the Titanic set, particularly with all the water scenes. Almost as soon as she was done the film, she dyed it back.
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Cynthia Nixon
SATC's iconic redhead Miranda is never far from our minds, but few people realize that actress Cynthia Nixon is a true-blue blonde.
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Mixing It Up
Because Kim Cattrall (who played Samantha) and Sarah Jessica Parker (who played Carrie) were both blondes, producers of SATC wanted to mix it up and make Miranda a redhead, meaning Nixon had to dye her hair. It paid off, and she was dyeing it red for many more years.
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Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter grew up as TV audiences watched on Modern Family, so it might surprise you to know that she doesn't have naturally dark hair, but is a natural blonde.
Light And Dark
What's tough for Winter is that despite her naturally light locks, she has dark eyebrows and eyes, though this is also what makes her a particularly convincing brunette. She's recently stopped dyeing her hair so much.
Christina Hendricks
Almost no one is as synonymous with "fiery redhead" as Christina Hendricks' character Joan on Mad Men, but Hendricks herself has naturally blonde hair.
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Red At Heart
Hendricks didn't just lean into the red with Joan, however; she had been dyeing her blonde hair red years before she got the part in the show.
Eddie Redmayne
British star Eddie Redmayne now has dark red hair, but his original hair is a light strawberry blonde. Much like Amy Adams, he dyed it darker to break into the industry.
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Gillian Anderson
Most people don't know that Gillian Anderson is bidialectical, which means she has both an American and British accent. They also don't realize she's a natural blonde, thanks to her role as the redhead Dana Scully on The X-Files.
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Red No More
When The X-Files got revived in 2015, Anderson was all set to also reprise her dye job. However, her colorist told her she was courting disaster and she opted for a wig instead.
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