--- description: The past, present and future of your favorite X-Men title: X-Men Cast: See Current and Past Actors image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a257461b998c714/698690b413c79f09db19237b/hugh-jackman.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See the _X-Men_ Actors In Days of Present — And Past by [Joseph C. Lin](/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2014 5:46 PM CUT  Present day Hugh Jackman & 1996 Hugh Jackman Present day Hugh Jackman & 1996 Hugh Jackman20th Century Fox; Newspix/Getty Images by [Joseph C. Lin](/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2014 5:46 PM CUT James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, respectively, play the younger versions of Patrick Stewart’s Professor X and Ian McKellen’s Magneto in the time-travelling escapades of _X-Men: Days of Future Past._ Take a look at how these actors and others in the new X-Men movie have aged over the years.  Present day Hugh Jackman & 1996 Hugh Jackman 20th Century Fox; Newspix/Getty Images  Present day Patrick Stewart & 1970 Patrick Stewart 20th Century Fox; Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Present day Ellen Page & 2005 Ellen Page 20th Century Fox; J. Vespa—WireImage/Getty Images  Present day Jennifer Lawrence & 2007 Jennifer Lawrence 20th Century Fox; Mirek Towski—WireImage/Getty Images  Present day Peter Dinklage & 2003 Peter Dinklage 20th Century Fox; J. Vespa—WireImage/Getty Images  Present day Ian McKellen & 1978 Ian McKellen 20th Century Fox; Roy Jones—Evening Standard/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/110464/see-the-x-men-actors-in-days-of-present-and-past/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/110464/see-the-x-men-actors-in-days-of-present-and-past/"},"headline":"See the X-Men Actors In Days of Present — And Past","datePublished":"2014-05-23T17:46:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:21.379Z","description":"The past, present and future of your favorite X-Men","url":"https://time.com/110464/see-the-x-men-actors-in-days-of-present-and-past/","keywords":["Jennifer Lawrence","Hugh Jackman","X-Men","peter dinklage"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a257461b998c714/698690b413c79f09db19237b/hugh-jackman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph C. Lin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a257461b998c714/698690b413c79f09db19237b/hugh-jackman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hugh-jackman","caption":"Present day Hugh Jackman & 1996 Hugh Jackman","creditText":"20th Century Fox; Newspix/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/110464/see-the-x-men-actors-in-days-of-present-and-past/","name":"See the X-Men Actors In Days of Present — And Past"}}]}] ```