Dedication!See All the Celebrities Who Shaved Their Heads for Roles

Cara Delevingne

Cara shaved her hair off for her role in Life in a Year, but she revealed that it was her choice, not the director’s!

“Before I even got the project, I said to the director, ‘I want to shave my head for it.’ My agents and managers were like, ‘Please don’t! Why would you do that?'” she told Elle.

Since Cara played a young girl who’s unfortunately dying of cancer, she felt it was necessary.

“When it’s a part like that — especially when it’s about cancer — I needed to feel what it would be like to have no hair,” she added.

And to her, hair definitely doesn’t define beauty.

“The way you look, I think, it’s so important to feel beautiful, no matter if you have hair,” she concluded. “It doesn’t matter at all.”

And when Marie Claire asked the model what she thought the most transformative moment in her career was, she chose shaving her hair.

“Before, I’d always kept my look very similar. I’d have my hair and make-up done 
for shoots and go through these transformations, but personally I never did anything — I kept the same haircut and never colored it,” she explained. “Shaving it all off was a big leap of faith into my own exploration of femininity. It didn’t mean that I wasn’t beautiful. I learned you don’t need hair to be a woman and that my previous beauty ideals weren’t true.”

Kristen Stewart

Our favorite Twilight actress shocked us all when she shaved her head for her role in Underwater.

“I’m doing a movie in a couple of weeks called Underwater, and I play a mechanical engineer that’s working in an oil rig that’s on the bottom of the ocean floor,” Kristen explained on the Today Show at the time. “So for me, I was like, ‘It’s practical!’ I mean, I’m not going to be able to have touch-ups once I put the helmet on. I must shave my head!'”

As fans of the actress know, she’s actually kept her hair pretty short since then! She explained on the show that cutting her hair is something she’s wanted to do for a long time.

“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, just for novel sake,” she added.

Amandla Stenberg

Amanda loved shaving her head for her role in Where Hands Touch.

“I just finished working on a film called Where Hands Touch directed by the incredible @iammaasante. The story is about the experience of biracial children growing up in Nazi Germany. I shaved my head for the role,” she shared on Instagram. “Feels really good. I feel so aerodynamic now. I’ve achieved ultimate speed.”

You go girl!

Joey King

Joey didn’t think twice about shaving her head.

“I’ve never really had an attachment to my hair. I couldn’t care less what happens to it,” the Kissing Booth actress explained to Allure Magazine at the time. “No part of me was nervous or was second-guessing it. So many people would ask me, ‘Are you really scared?’ or ‘Are you nervous?’ or say, ‘You’re so brave.’ And I’d go, ‘I’m not brave. I’m just cutting my hair off.’”

It turns out, that wasn’t the only time she cut her hair off for a role. The actress practically went bald when she was 11 for The Dark Knight Rises. And then, she did it again at age 14 for Wish I Was Here.

Millie Bobby Brown

Millie is always talking about how shaving her head for Stranger Things was the most empowering moment for her.

“The last strand of hair cut off was the moment my whole face was on show and I couldn’t hide behind my hair like I used to,” she wrote on Instagram. “As I looked at myself and couldn’t see my old self, I realized that now; I have a job to do and that is to inspire other girls that your image or exterior part is not what I think is important. What I find important is caring, loving and inspiring other girls. Thought to share my thoughts during this life changing moment.”

Anne Hathaway

Anne shaved her head back in 2012 when she starred in Les Miserables and boy, did she look different.

“I’m just so pleased with how I look, so I now quite like having short hair,” the Ella Enchanted actress told Vulture about her haircut. “I did it for a film, so it really wasn’t about me and my security.”

Kate Hudson

Kate said goodbye to her long, blonde locks when she shaved her hair for a role in the upcoming movie Sister.

“It’s funny, too, because when (the haircut) first started, I didn’t think about it because it was (for) the role,” she explained during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “It was like, ‘Oh, let’s do this!'”

But as they started cutting it, the actress started to panic.

“Oh! What is the shape of my head going to look like?” she recalled thinking. “I really started to panic.”

But in the end, she loved it.