updated: 17/12/2004
From Shakespeare to Shakespeare In Love, playwrights and film-makers have delighted in disguising their female characters as men. Sometimes they have aimed for a realistic look and sometimes they’ve played it for laughs.
These images are mostly taken from movies and TV programmes from 1975 and earlier: there are separate thumbnail pages for female-to-male disguises from movies of 1976 to 1989 and movies of the 1990s and recent movies.
Then, of course, there are the actresses who have played male characters.