Actors don’t always play parts that reflect their true ages! Take a look at how old these performers were when their famous sitcoms debuted.
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Friends Cast Season 1 Ages
Matthew Perry, Chandler on Friends, was the youngest cast member! And though Ross was supposed to be older than his sister Monica, David Schwimmer is three years younger than Courteney Cox.
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The Office Cast Season 1 Ages
HE was the baby in the Jim-Pam Office romance, since John Krasinski is about six years younger than Jenna Fischer.
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Married With Children Cast Season 1 Ages
Guess Peggy and Al were busy teenage Bundys! Katey Sagal is barely 18 years older than her Married with Children daughter Kelly, a.k.a. Christina Applegate.
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Golden Girls Season 1 Cast Ages
Surprise! Even though Estelle Getty's Sophia played the mother of Bea Arthur's Dorothy on Golden Girls, the actresses are only a year apart--with Getty being the younger of the two.
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Seinfeld Season 1 Ages
Michael Richards's Kramer may have had a full head of hair, but he's 10 years older than Jason Alexander, who played mostly bald George Costanza on Seinfeld.
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Designing Women Cast Season 1 Ages
Dixie Carter's Julia Sugarbaker was the elder sister to Delta Burke's Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women, but she was actually old enough to be her mother!
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That 70s Show Cast Season 1 Ages
All actors were supposed to be legal, but to get the part of Jackie on That '70s Show, Mila Kunis said, "I'll be 18 on my birthday;" she just didn't specify which one, according to IMDB.com
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Glee Cast Season 1 Ages
It's not so strange that Finn kissed Ms. Pillsbury on Glee. The high school student was portrayed by the late Cory Monteith, who was just two years younger than the actress Jayma Mays.
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The Jeffersons
George and Weezy were married on The Jeffersons, but 21-years-older Isabel Sanford could've been Sherman Hemsley's mother. And Hemsley's original TV son? Only 11 years his junior.
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My So Called Life
Angela Chase and Jordan Catalano dated on My So-Called Life, but an off-screen relationship between actors Claire Danes (then 15) and Jared Leto (then 22) would've been forbidden.