18 Celebrities Who Shaved Their Heads

For her upcoming film, We Live in Time, Florence Pugh shaved her head to lock in the role of Almut—a look she debuted at the 2023 Met Gala. While the plot of the film has yet to be released, Pugh will be accompanied by American actor Andrew Garfield. In other Pugh news, the actress was recently named the new face of Valentino in a breathtaking campaign back in April. 

On September 9, 2022, Dixie D'Amelio released a video on her YouTube channel titled "I Just Shaved My Head" in which she documents shaving her head for her subscribers. "I've wanted to do this since six grade," D'Amelio explains. 

Doja Cat has had a lot of hair color and style changes in the last few years from copper to pink to red. Most recently, Doja buzzed her hair and dyed it half-blonde and half-pink, revealing the new hairdo on her Instagram. The star then went on to shave her head completely and shocked fans by shaving her eyebrows while on Instagram Live. Doja has said that she's been wanting to make the change for a while now, revealing that she "never liked having hair."

In a heartwarming gesture of solidarity with her mother who has been battling alopecia for years now, Willow Smith joined her mother in shaving their heads together. Jada posted a photo of the pair's newly-shaved heads herself with the caption, "Willow made me do it because it was time to let go BUT...my 50's are about to be Divinely lit with this shed."

No stranger to switching up her 'do (and effortlessly pulling off every look she attempts), Halsey has shaved her head bald a number of times, the most recent of which being in the fall of 2020. 

In preparation for her role in the 2018 romantic war drama film Where Hands Touch, Amandla Stenberg shaved their head for their portrayal of Leyna, a biracial child growing up in Nazi Germany. 

Natalie Portman shook fans worldwide when she shaved her head in 2006 for her role in V for Vendetta. Rather than shying away from the change, Portman embraced it, telling reporters in New York she was glad for the "opportunity to throw vanity away for a little and go around with no hair."

English singer Jessie J went close-cropped in 2013 for Comic Relief, raising £500,000 for charity in the process and describing the change as "weird but liberating." 

In 2015, British fashion model Adwoa Aboah got a buzz, penning a personal essay for Teen Vogue about the emotions and reasoning that went behind her choice, including she spent the majority of her life at odds with her hair, trying to find styles that worked for her and, upon entering the world of modeling, were the most convenient for stylists. She described the decision as empowering, stating that she felt more beautiful than ever. 

In 2009, Solange quietly shaved her head for the first time in her adult life. Upon the release of paparazzi photos that revealed her cut to the world, she faced much backlash and speculation for her choice, which prompted her to clarify that it was, in fact, her choice, silencing the haters and informing them of the freedom the decision offered her. 

For her role as Eleven in Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown had to part ways with her formerly long locks. In a 2018 Instagram post, Brown reflected on the experience with an uplifting video and message, writing, "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."

There are few celebrity hairstyles more iconic than Amber Rose's bleached blonde buzz cut. Initially adopting the look as a stroke of teenage rebellion, Rose ended up loving it and has kept it up for 19 years since. 

Although her agents and managers urged her not to, Cara Delevigne shaved her head in 2017 for her role as a cancer patient in the movie Life in a Year, saying that in order to truly understand her character, she needed to experience firsthand what it was like to have no hair. 

Fulfilling her role as the iconic Furiosa in Mad Max Fury Road, Charlize Theron shaved her head herself and uploaded a video of her doing it to Twitter in 2020, five years after the film's release. 

Some actresses shave their heads because they nabbed a role playing a bald character, other actresses (like K. Stew) shave their heads because they're going to be wearing a helmet on set for a lengthy period of time, and simply can't be bothered to worry about what's underneath. Such was the case for Stewart's 2018 film Underwater, in which she played a mechanical engineer working on an oil rig at the bottom of the ocean floor. 

Demi Moore waved a temporary farewell to her famously long locks in advance of her role in the 1997 film G.I. Jane. 

For her role as Gypsy Rose Blanchard in Hulu's 2019 anthology series The Act, Joey King shaved her head—and loved it. She told Allure in 2018 that she had never been particularly attached to her hair before and found joy in the newfound freedom of not having to style it, redirecting her energy to experiment with different makeup looks instead.