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In order to film GLOW [2], Netflix's hit about a real-life female wrestling program from the '80s [3], a lot of the cast went through some spectacular makeovers [4] to ensure their characters truly look like they belong in the decade of Aqua Net and legwarmers. For Gayle Rankin, however, her transformation into Sheila the She Wolf was a little bit more extreme. In GLOW, the Greatest Showman actress, who has also starred in the Irreplaceable You and on Broadway's Cabaret, rocks a wild black wig, out-of-control smoky-eye makeup, and yellowed teeth to express her inner wolf. In real life, though? Gayle looks a whole lot different.
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Without Sheila's wig, the 27-year-old classically trained Scottish star has short, white-blond hair (and significantly less eye makeup). We get a glimpse of the actress underneath the costume briefly in one of the show's first season episodes, when Sheila opens up to her new roommate, Ruth (Alison Brie [7]), about suffering from "species dysmorphia" (she believes she actually is a wolf). Sheila is by far one of the show's most interesting characters, so we can't wait to see more of her (with or without the wig) in season two.
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