Ginger celebrities: 21 celebrity redheads to inspire your next trip to the salon (2024)

Red hair is the signifier for a bold, no-nonsense look. It's arguably become the most sought-after shade for hair makeovers in 2023 and the eye-catching shade is perfectly captured by the flame-haired ginger celebrities below.

Some are natural redheads like Madelaine Petsch, Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas-Howard, and some... not-so-natural. For example, did you know that many of your favourite and most iconic celebrity redheads, like Emma Stone, Tayra Banks, Sophie Turner and Christina Hendricks, are all actually naturally blonde? Despite being know for their fiery strands, all of these redheaded celebs have been secretly dyeing their real hair for years, after realising how much they suited being a redhead.

If you've been secretly wondering whether you'd suit dyeing your hair red, maybe our edit of the best ginger celebrities, from Lucy Boynton to Emma Roberts and Rhianna will persuade you to take the plunge and dye your hair strawberry blonde, crimson red, scarlet or copper at your next salon visit.

Emma Stone is the epitome of natural beauty, away from the stereotypical blonde, tanned A-lister – Emma, we salute you!

British actress Ronke Adekoluejo, who you might recognise from TV's Doctor Who, matched her red braids to her outfit too.

Scarlet bombshell Christina Hendricks, knows that nothing grabs attention quite like vivid red locks. Fitting perfectly with her sultry persona, the natural blonde has been dyeing her hair this colour since she was ten-years-old.

The Milkshake singer demonstrates how to style her locks, which she's dyed varying tones of red, brown and orange – and how it shouldn't stop you wearing clolours too!

Back in 2018 Zendaya sported a rusty red coloured wavy bob, and we're still big fans.

Best known for her enduring role as smart and sensible Miranda in The Sex And The City show and films, Cynthia Nixon has since opted for a darker and more firery red from her earlier lighter strawberry blonde-ish days.

British actress Ellie Bamber often toys between blonde, strawberry blonde and much darker red tones, but we love her current brassy choice.

Known as much for her flame-haired beauty as she is for her character of Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale, the 25-year-old actress proves that red truly is the most stunning of colours, regularly rocking some gothic black alongside her fiery mane.

Rhianna has dyed her her every tone possible of red, from bright pillarbox red to this glossy auburn shade from way back in 2015, which is our favourite of her many looks.

The Game Of Thrones beauty is actually naturally blonde, but she used to dye her hair while filming the series– a fiery auburn red to suit her fiery character on the show.

Everyone's favourite redhead from sitcom Will and Grace has always worn her natural bold hair colour proudly on and off screen.

Scottish actress Karen Gillan's best known role was in the much-loved TV series, Doctor Who where she played Amy Pond and sported her nautral firey hair tone.

Apart from a few brief periods of being brassy blonde, Lindsay has always shown off her natural hair colour and worn it super long.

The Desperate Housewives actress has taken a leaf out of Cynthia Nixon's book too, and swapped her lighter tone for a bright, bold and impressive red hue.

Pairing her fair complexion with a multitude of red, orange and blonde tones, we love Nicole Kidman's light strawberry blonde/ auburn hue the most.

The actress goes through varying shades of red, but we have to say our favourite is this bold hue.

The model is famous for her natural unruly curls, as much as catwalk debuts.