The celebs who are dyeing for red hair.
Emma Stone rose to fame with her signature red locks, but her natural hair color started to make a comeback when she dyed it back for her role in "The Amazing Spider-Man.""My natural hair is blonde, so it's kind of nice," Stone said in an interview with MTV."I looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh my God, it's me again! It's been so long!'"
During her early modeling career, "Mad Men" actress Christina Hendricks ditched her blonde hair for red, but her agency was none-too-pleased. "The head of my agency was like, 'You look terrible, it's so ugly, you cannot have red hair,'" she told the UK's Daily Mail. According to the actress, she booked three modeling gigs in the time it took for the dye to wash out, so she's kept her red hair ever since.
Amy Adams seems to play a lot of wholesome, innocent characters in her films, but that wasn't always the case. "Everyone's always like: 'You're so typecast.' But actually, when I came out to L.A., I was always the bitchy girl," said the actress in a Washington Post interview. She blamed her natural blonde hair for those earlier roles, because once she changed it, she started nabbing better parts.
"Sex and The City" actress Cynthia Nixon has always appeared with red hair in the series, but not so much off-screen. "I am not a redhead, I'm a blonde," said Nixon, who was sporting blonde tresses during the release of "Sex and The City 2" in New York. "Right now, this isn't my natural blonde color. I had to dye it in order to get the red out of it," she told Marie Claire.
"Will and Grace" actress (and natural brunette) Debra Messing credits a dye-job gone wrong for her success in Hollywood. While working on "A Walk In the Clouds," the hair department colored her locks red instead of blonde, but she soon noticed she was getting more work with her fiery new 'do.
Comedienne Lucille Ball often joked about her hair color, so it's no surprise that she wasn't a natural redhead. She dyed her hair blonde during her early career before finally settling on red. According to Bella Sugar, she also quipped that she kept Egypt's economy afloat with her orders of henna.
Deborah Ann Woll plays a redheaded vampire on HBO's "TrueBlood," but the actress has been dyeing her hair since she was 14. "As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background," Woll told Elle magazine."I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.'"
"My natural color is a mousy ash-brown," joked Kate Walsh during an interview with InStyle."It's really hot!" However, the "Private Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy" actress said that reddish hair does run in her family, as her brother has strawberry blonde hair and her grandmother has deep chestnut hair.
Alyson Hannigan claims that "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon made her go red for the role of Willow Rosenberg. "Joss had us all over to his house," she remembers. "Charisma [Carpenter] and Sarah [Michelle Gellar] and I all had brown hair at the time. Joss said, 'All of your hair is kind of the same shade. Does anyone want to be red?' I went for it. Eventually Sarah got more and more blonde, but it was because we all had a brownish, auburn mane."