--- description: Take a look at actors who've dressed up in drag throughout the years title: Photos: 34 Actors Dressed Up In Drag image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf2e53db064e92db1/69876186cd684899440972d0/salt-angelina-jolie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See 34 Actors Who Dressed Up In Fabulous Drag by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 18, 2014 4:21 PM CUT  Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt/Natasha Chenkova in Salt Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt/Natasha Chenkova in SaltColumbia Pictures; Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Image by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 18, 2014 4:21 PM CUT _Dexter_ star Michael C. Hall is dressing up in drag as he takes the stage on Broadway as Hedwig in _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_. Take a look at other actors throughout the years who’ve dressed in drag for their roles. _Read next:_ [_These Celebrities Look Uncannily Alike_](http://time.com/3637276/these-celebrities-look-uncannily-alike/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined")  Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt/Natasha Chenkova in Salt Columbia Pictures; Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Image  Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire in Mrs. Doubtfire 20th Century Fox; Jimi Celeste—PatrickMcMullan.com/Sipa/AP  Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig Robinson in the Broadway adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Kevin Mazur—Getty Images; Bruce Glikas—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Johnny Depp as Bon Bon/Lt. Victor in Before Night Falls Fine Line Features; Fred Duval—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Tom Hanks as Buffy in Bosom Buddies Getty Images (2)  Glenn Close as Albert Nobbs in Albert Nobbs Patrick Redmond—Roadside Attractions/AP; Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Gael Garcia Bernal as Zahara in Bad Education Sony Pictures Classics; Jean Baptiste Lacroix—WireImage/Getty Images  Nathan Lane as Albert in The Birdcage United Artists/Getty Images; Richard Corkery—Daily News/Getty Images  Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker in The Boondock Saints Indican Pictures; Jim Spellman—WireImage/Getty Images  Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry Getty Images (2)  Cillian Murphy as Patricia "Kitten" Braden in Breakfast on Pluto Sony Pictures Classics; Steve Finn—Getty Images  Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn in I'm Not There Weinstein Company; Dave Benett—Getty Images  Cameron Diaz as Natalie Cook, Lucy Liu as Alex Munday, and Drew Barrymore as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angeles Columbia Pictures; Getty Images (2)  John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray New Line Cinema; Vera Anderson—WireImage/Getty Images  John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig Robinson in Hedwig and the Angry Inch New Line Cinema; Andrew Stawicki—Toronto Star/Getty Images  Adam Sandler as Jill Sadelstein in Jack and Jill Tracy Bennett—Columbia Pictures; Michael Tran—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Tyler Perry as Mabel "Madea" Simmons in Madea's Witness Protection KC Bailey—Lionsgate; Lloyd Bishop—NBC/Getty Images  Martin Lawrence as Big Momma in Big Momma's House 20th Century Fox; Joshua Blanchard—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Liev Schreiber as Chris in Mixed Nuts TriStar Pictures; Evan Agostini—ImageDirect/Getty Images  Guy Pearce as Felicia Jollygoodfellow and Hugo Weaving as Mitzi Del Bra in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Getty Images (3)  Ving Rhames as Holiday Heart in Holiday Heart Showtime; Gennadi Avramenko—Epsilon/Getty Images  Jared Leto as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club Focus Features; Jordan Strauss—Invision/AP  Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love Miramax Films; Ron Galella—WireImage/Getty Images  Amanda Bynes as Sebastian Hastings in She's the Man Dreamworks; Michael Loccisano—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Jack Lemmon as Daphne and Tony Curtis as Josephine in Some Like It Hot Sunset Boulevard/Corbis; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Harland Williams as Roberta, Barry Watson as Daisy and Michael Rosenbaum as Adina in Sorority Boys Touchstone Pictures; George Pimentel—WireImage/Getty Images  Liev Schreiber as Vetty von Vilma in Taking Woodstock Ken Regan—Focus Features; Vera Anderson—WireImage/Getty Images  Marlon Wayans as Marcus Copeland and Shawn Wayans as Kevin Copeland in White Chicks Joe Lederer—AP; Lee Celano—WireImage/Getty Images  Kurt Russell as Lt. Gabriel Cash in Tango & Cash Sam Emerson—Warner Bros; Munawar Hosain—Getty Images  Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show 20th Century Fox; Robin Platzer—FilmMagic/Getty Images  John Leguizamo as Chi-Chi Rodriguez, Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson and Patrick Swayze as Vida Boheme in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Getty Images (4)  Dustin Hoffman as Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie Columbia Pictures/Getty Images; Earl Leaf—Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria MGM; Paul Popper—Popperfoto/Getty Images  Barbra Streisand as Yentl Mendel in Yentl Getty Images (2) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3517652/actors-drag/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3517652/actors-drag/"},"headline":"See 34 Actors Who Dressed Up In Fabulous Drag","datePublished":"2014-10-18T16:21:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:21.850Z","description":"These movie stars took gender performance to a cinematic new level. 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