17 TV Characters Who Changed A Whole Lot From Their First Episode To Their Last

    Cristina Yang from Grey's Anatomy barely aged in 10 seasons!

    Kayla Yandoli
    by Kayla Yandoli

    BuzzFeed Staff

    🚨 Some spoilers ahead! 🚨

    1. Steve Carell as Michael Scott in The Office:

    NBC

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Finale" (Season 9, Episodes 24 and 25)

    2. Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green in Friends:

    NBC

    First appearance: "The Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "The Last One" (Season 10, Episodes 17 and 18)

    3. Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy:

    ABC

    First appearance: "A Hard Day's Night" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Fear (of the Unknown)" (Season 10, Episode 24)

    4. Will Smith as Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:

    NBC

    First appearance: "The Fresh Prince Project" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "I, Done" (Season 6, Episodes 23 and 24)

    5. Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation:

    NBC

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "One Last Ride" (Season 7, Episodes 12 and 13)

    6. Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop in The Good Place:

    NBC

    First appearance: "Everything Is Fine" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Whenever You're Ready" (Season 4, Episodes 13 and 14)

    7. Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones:

    HBO

    First appearance: "Winter Is Coming" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "The Iron Throne" (Season 8, Episode 6)

    8. Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope in Scandal:

    ABC

    First appearance: "Sweet Baby" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Over a Cliff" (Season 7, Episode 18)

    9. Uzo Aduba as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren in Orange Is the New Black:

    Netflix

    First appearance: "I Wasn't Ready" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Here's Where We Get Off" (Season 7, Episode 13)

    10. Jon Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men:

    AMC

    First appearance: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Person to Person" (Season 7, Episode 14)

    11. Megan Mullally as Karen Walker in Will & Grace:

    NBC

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "The Finale" (Season 8, Episodes 23 and 24)

    12. Andre Braugher as Capt. Ray Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine:

    Fox

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 6)

    Latest appearance: "The Jimmy Jab Games II" (Season 7, Episode 4)

    13. Gina Rodriguez as Jane Gloriana Villanueva in Jane the Virgin:

    The CW

    First appearance: "Chapter One" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Chapter One Hundred" (Season 5, Episode 19)

    14. Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City:

    HBO

    First appearance: "Sex and the City" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "An American Girl In Paris (Part Deux)" (Season 6, Episode 20)

    15. Ashton Kutcher as Michael Kelso in That '70s Show:

    Fox

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "That '70s Finale" (Season 8, Episode 22)

    16. Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan in 30 Rock:

    NBC

    First appearance: "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1)

    Last appearance: "Hogcock!/Last Lunch" (Season 7, Episodes 12 and 13)

    17. And Sarah Paulson as Billie Dean Howard, Lana Winters, Cordelia Goode, Sally McKenna, and various other awesome characters in American Horror Story:

    FX

    First appearance: "Piggy Piggy" (Season 1, Episode 6)

    Latest appearance: "Apocalypse Then" (Season 8, Episode 10)