The real-life Benjamin Button – how does Brad Pitt look so good at 60?

With his lantern-like jawline and pronounced cheekbones, the star has defied time

Looking through the list of celebrities born in 1963, it’s clear that while in theory all men turn 60 equally, some are more 60 than others. John Bercow, James May, Viktor Orban, Philip Glenister. To this pantheon we must add Brad Pitt, who celebrates his birthday today. 
It is not so much surprising as impossible. Since Pitt came to international fame as the six-packed, hairdryer-brandishing drifter JD in Thelma & Louise in 1991, he has retained an impressive boyishness. Other youthful sex symbols succumb to the normal effects of time on the body. But not for Pitt the incipient paunch, the sagging jowls or the receding hairline. For proof, see his shirtless appearance on a roof in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, when he was 56. It isn’t something Hugh Bonneville, also 60, has treated us to lately, whatever his skills as an actor. 
Which isn’t to say Pitt’s look has not evolved over the years. The bruised, manic-grinned street brawler Tyler Durden, Pitt’s character in Fight Club, is miles away from Aldo Raine, his crazed Nazi hunter in Inglourious Basterds. Off-screen, his hair has been through as many iterations as David Beckham’s: shaped, spiked, quiffed, fringed and, during his Interview with the Vampire era, Rapunzel-long and bleached blonde. Perhaps when the rest of you looks like Brad Pitt, you feel comfortable taking a few more risks up top. 
But as with Beckham, beneath his ever-changing mop Pitt’s face remains remarkably unchanged. Yes, there is the odd crease and there, a little more salt in the pepper, but the jaw remains lantern-like and the cheekbones pronounced. 
You can vote for your favourite era below, but rich pickings abound. If his eternal youth wasn’t surprising enough, consider this: Pitt is a year older than Nigel Farage.