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A mottled Penguin, Queen Elizabeth I, a real life Monster, a handsome Henry VIII and more: Which stars became UNRECOGNISABLE for roles - using wigs, weight gain and prosthetics


MailOnline looks at six of the biggest physical transformations that actors have taken on for a role, making them unrecognisable to fans.

Piglets is a brand new series set in a fictional police training college thhat follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape. Giant will tell the compelling true-life story of the British-Yemeni boxer and his rags to riches ascent in the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Brendan, himself a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Brendan and Prince Naseem's unlikely partnership along with Naz's unorthodox style, cocky persona and sheer dominance in the ring, propelled them to the top of boxing's elite and unprecedented levels of stardom, all in the face of racism in the 80's and 90's in Britain.

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