By Jessica Wedemeyer
12:00pm PST, Jan 14, 2023
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Few men in Hollywood have experienced a more epic hair saga than Patrick Dempsey. In honor of the "Grey's Anatomy" alum's 57th birthday on Jan. 13, 2023, Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at his wildest hair moments — the good, the bad and the ugly! — starting with the platinum-blonde dye job he rocked in the summer of 2022. The Emmy-nominated actor went blonde for his role as race car driver Piero Taruffi in the upcoming "Ferrari" biopic.
Keep reading to take a look back at Patrick Dempsey's epic hair saga…
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Patrick Dempsey wore his hair in a thick, side-swept style in a promotional photo for the 1988 coming-of-age dramedy "Some Girls."
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A baby-faced Patrick Dempsey rocked tamed curls in 1988.
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Patrick Dempsey bleached his hair for his role as a slacker college kid in 1989's "Loverboy."
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Patrick Dempsey's curls were on full display during rehearsals for the 61st Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 1989.
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Patrick Dempsey had a head full of enviable curls in the 1990 dramedy "Coupe De Ville," which is set in 1963.
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Patrick Dempsey sported a shorter mullet-style 'do during the 1990 Writers Guild of America Awards in Beverly Hills.
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Patrick Dempsey slicked back his hair to portray Meyer Lansky — who was known as the "Mob's Accountant" — in the 1991 historical crime drama "Mobsters."
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In 1994, Patrick Dempsey's tight curls nearly reached his shoulders at the first Race to Erase MS event in Aspen, Colorado.
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So '90s! Patrick Dempsey sported tight curls — with one strand falling carelessly across his forehead — at the 1994 premiere of "With Honors" in Los Angeles.
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Patrick Dempsey rocked a closer cropped style at the 2000 premiere of "Scream 3" in Los Angeles.
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Patrick Dempsey's slicked-back 'do looked nearly perfect aside from the strand of hair that fell across his forehead at the 2004 premiere of "Iron Jawed Angels" in Los Angeles.
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It's giving boy band! Patrick Dempsey wore a style featuring quasi bangs during the opening of Galpin Motors' Club Aston showroom in Los Angeles in 2005.
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Patrick Dempsey debuted his now-signature 'do in mid-2005. He modeled the look at ABC's primetime preview event in New York City that year.
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Here's the Patrick Dempsey 'do we all know and love! In 2005, the actor posed as his on-screen alter ego, Dr. Derek Shepherd, in a promotional photo for ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."
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Patrick Dempsey's bangs were totally out of control during a 2006 William Rast fashion show in Los Angeles.
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Patrick Dempsey started going gray around the time he attended the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
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Patrick Dempsey was snapped sporting one of his shortest hairstyles yet as he arrived at LAX Airport in Los Angeles in 2014.
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The sun really highlighted Patrick Dempsey's salt-and-pepper tresses as he watched the 2016 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix qualifying round in Monte Carlo.
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Patrick Dempsey's hair looked especially voluminous at a special screening of "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" during the 2018 Cannes International Series Festival in France.
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Patrick Dempsey had gone almost completely gray by the time he attended the 2018 GQ Men of the Year Awards in Berlin.
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The anatomy of Patrick Dempsey's gray hair… His silver strands looked practically perfect when he attended the 2019 Formula One Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.
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Patrick Dempsey looked like an older, gray-haired Ryan Gosling with his closer cropped 'do at the 2019 Formula One Austrian Grand Prix in Styria, Austria.
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Patrick Dempsey wore his salt-and-pepper tresses parted while shooting the second season of "Devils" in Rome in 2021.
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A masked Patrick Dempsey appeared to be in desperate need of a trim while watching the 2021 Formula E Rome ePrix in Rome.
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In the summer of 2022, Patrick Dempsey showed off a shocking new look — a white-blonde dye job — while posing with Mickey Mouse and wife Jillian Fink during Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California. The "Grey's Anatomy" alum went blonde for his role as race car driver Piero Taruffi in the upcoming "Ferrari" biopic.
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After sporting a platinum-blonde bleach job earlier in the year for his role as race car driver Piero Taruffi in the upcoming "Ferrari" biopic, Patrick Dempsey dyed his hair a dark brown shade. He debuted his new look at the Hollywood premiere of "Disenchanted" in late 2022. But he clearly wasn't digging his second dye-job of the year: Just a few weeks later, he shaved his head…
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In late 2022, Patrick Dempsey's wife, Jillian Fink, took to Instagram to share a video of her hubby taking a razor to his tresses. She explained in the caption that the "Grey's Anatomy" alum wanted to start fresh after dying his hair platinum blonde for his role as race car driver Piero Taruffi in the upcoming "Ferrari" biopic. "Change is good! Have you ever buzzed your hair? Watch @patrickdempsey use clippers to eliminate the dyed hair from a character role and start fresh!" she wrote in the caption.
