Hollywood's Fake Hair Club: Tom Hanks, David Beckham, Nicolas Cage and More Stars Who Underwent Wild Transformations
Jan. 2 2025, Published 8:30 p.m. ET
Tyga
Posting a link to a hair transplant surgeon, Dr. Craig L. Zeiring, to social media in 2018, Tyga, 35, simply added: "Tellem Tyga sent u."
Tom Hanks
Stress and exhaustion from extensive filming reportedly caused the two-time Oscar winner to suffer hair loss many years ago. In his middle age, Tom Hanks, now 68, underwent a hair transplant procedure later to achieve natural-looking hair, cosmetic experts said.
The A-lister has not touched on his transformation, but admitted he got a "horrible haircut" to portray Colonel Tom Parker in the 2022 film Elvis.
Joel McHale
The comedian and Spider-Man actor revealed he’s had three hair transplants.
"I'd be totally bald. We’re not all born with gorgeous thick hair," Joel McHale, 53, said.
The funnyman, who started losing his hair as a teenager, added: "Three surgeries later, look at my hair! Technology is bananas now!"
Andre Agassi
Former tennis star Andre Agassi, 54, admitted his signature long hair was a wig, which he wore after beginning to lose his locks at age 19. He even claimed worrying about it cost him the 1990 French Open.
"Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole,” Agassi wrote in his autobiography Open.
He added: "Of course I could have played without my hairpiece, but what would all the journalists have written if they knew that all the time I was really wearing a wig? During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off... “With each leap, I imagine it falling into the sand."
Nicolas Cage
Face/Off star Nicolas Cage, 60, started to experience thinning hair in recent years due to male pattern baldness. He reportedly turned to a hair implant to keep his mane in its normal state, opting for a very basic procedure that created a natural look – and the result doesn’t appear remarkably different from his original hair, just thicker.
Cheyenne Jackson
American Horror Story actor Cheyenne Jackson, 49, said on social media that he’d had five hair transplants after first losing his hair at age 22, writing: "I’ve been DREADING this day ... the day when my horrible secret would be revealed.
"No, this gnarly scar across my head isn’t from life-saving brain surgery, nor did I narrowly survive a shark attack. It’s worse. (At least in Hollywood ...) I had hair transplant surgery. 5 of them, to be exact over 14 years."
Jason Alexander
Seinfeld star Jason Alexander, 65, admitted he would often wear a toupee – and that it "cost a bloody fortune."
David Beckham
The British soccer great started to have issues with thinning hair a few years after his retirement as a player in 2013. David Beckham reportedly had his transplant in 2018 – and apparently stopped hair loss dead in its tracks. He looks better than ever now at 49.