Showing posts with label Terry O'Quinn. Show all posts
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Monday, 10 May 2010

Terry O'Quinn

Beloved reader Hydrophoby suggested 57 year old Mr. O'Quinn, who is now best known for his role as Locke in tv show Lost, which has now finished. I waited until the series ended so I didn't get spoilered.



By coincidence I was rewatching the very first episode of Lost just the other day and I noticed his head wasn't totally shaven. He starts the series with a very short buzzcut showing the norwood 6 'horseshoe' pattern. I don't know exactly when he embraced the shaven bald look and there's no way I'm going to watch the whole series again just to find out.



I first remember seeing him years ago in The Stepfather, in which he puts on a spectacular performance as the titular deranged mentalist. He was 35 when he starred in this and already well on the way to baldness.



He may have worn a wig in the Stepfather as a year or so later in psychological horror film Pin he looked like a norwood 5.



What I admire about him is the way he seems comfortably at ease with his baldness, his head shape, pointy ears and measured acting style combining to a zen like whole that would make the Buddha himself proud.



Norwood Rating : 6