Six of the Best Eyebrows in Movie History

Published by Jeff Leins on May 9, 2009

The revival of Star Trek has arrived in theaters amidst a continuing trend of re-imagings, reboots, and origin stories.  J.J. Abrams has somehow managed to make the science fiction franchise new again through a simple re-telling of how the famous crew was formed.  Last weekend, X-Men Origins: Wolverine separated the character from the mutant team to delve into his violent past.  Later this month in Terminator Salvation a new trilogy of old, yet futuristic Terminators will terrorize humans again.

Though the movie may have been a timely collision with the zeitgeist, perhaps there’s a more important movement Abrams hadn’t intended to align with.  A fashion statement so deeply woven into society that maybe you hadn’t even noticed it.  I’m talking, of course, about crazy eyebrows.

Zachary Quinto had to shave his ordinary looking ‘brows to then achieve Spock’s two furrowed examples of crazy eyebrow excellence.  The iconic slashes point inward as if the Vulcan is perpetually pondering something, but what he’s really thinking is, “My eyebrows are awesome.”  His companion Captain Kirk is even rocking a distinguished pair of his own.  Plus the villain Nemo has a couple of wing-tipped bad boys alongside his sweet tattoos.

It’s not just Trek either.  78-year-old Up protagonist Carl is sporting bushy white brows behind his glasses.  Pop star sensation the Jonas Brothers just started in their own 3-D concert experience earlier this year, and they look like a family of caterpillars are crawling across their foreheads.  Even “Britain’s Got Talent” star Susan Boyle’s brows are an untamed, mangy mess.

In honor of the new crazy eyebrow style, I thought we might briefly take a look at six of the best eyebrows in movie history (in no particular order).

(For the record Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was disqualified for doing the “People’s Eyebrow” as a wrestler and not in a film.)

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