How old was Paul Newman in Cars?

There’s something captivating about discovering a celebrity’s age during a defining role. That kind of trivia can make the viewing experience even richer. Here’s the age that matched the moment.

In the movie Cars, Paul Newman was:

80 years old

That was the real age of the celebrity according to our calculation.

We calculated the age by referencing the first day of the year Cars was launched:

January 1, 2006

And also the day Paul Newman was born:

January 26, 1925

Since movies usually don't take more than one year to be released since the beginning of the filming process, Paul Newman may have been one year younger or one year older than the shown age while some scenes of the movie were being filmed.