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Celebrities With Heterochromia: Patterns and Common Mix-Ups

A mismatched-looking pair of celebrity eyes is the start of a question, not a complete explanation. Color can differ between irises, within one iris, or appear different because the pupil or surrounding tissue differs. This collection compares documented examples and related cases to explain those distinctions. Bowie, Ruah, and Kunis are included because they help correct common list-making errors; their inclusion does not classify every case as current inherited heterochromia.

By Iris Analyzer Editorial Team

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The direct answer

Scherzer and Eve have documented different-colored eyes; Bosworth has a reported hazel sector within blue. Seymour describes a brown-and-green pairing. Bowie’s appearance is explained by anisocoria, Ruah describes pigmentation of the eye’s white, and Kunis distinguishes an earlier color difference from her post-surgery appearance.

Compare the profiles

Each answer follows the cited profile. Evidence labels distinguish first-person context, official sources, published descriptions, and disagreements. They do not measure eye color or establish a diagnosis.

Celebrity eye color answers, evidence status, review dates, and supporting sources
CelebritySource-checked answerEvidence and reviewSources
Kate Bosworth

Actor

Blue eyes with a localized hazel sector

Full answer and evidence limits

Published profiles describe Kate Bosworth as having blue and hazel coloring. A published vision reference is more precise: one iris has a localized hazel section within an otherwise blue field, a pattern commonly called sectoral or partial heterochromia.

This description comes from published reporting and an eye-health explainer; neither is a clinical record for Bosworth. The licensed event portrait identifies her, but it is not used as a diagnostic image or a pixel sample of her iris.

Multiple sources

Reviewed

Max Scherzer

Professional baseball pitcher

Left brown, right blue—complete heterochromia

Full answer and evidence limits

Max Scherzer's left eye is brown and his right eye is blue. MLB reporting identifies the lifelong difference as heterochromia, while family reporting says the contrast was already visible during infancy.

The color and left-versus-right answer is anchored to official MLB reporting and a Washington Post account quoting Scherzer's mother. Those sources document the visible trait; they are not a clinical examination and do not establish a personal genetic finding or any effect on vision.

MLB + family reporting

Reviewed

Alice Eve

Actor

One blue eye and one green eye

Full answer and evidence limits

Alice Eve has one blue eye and one green eye. Direct interviews commonly report her left eye as blue and her right eye as green; Eve herself confirms the two colors and says the difference can be subtle outside direct light.

Eve's own interview answers support the blue-and-green description. The left-versus-right assignment is supplied by interviewers in multiple direct profiles, so this page reports it with that attribution and does not use mirrored publicity photographs as proof.

Multiple direct interviews

Reviewed

Jane Seymour

Actor, author and artist

Right eye brown with blue-green areas; left eye green

Full answer and evidence limits

Jane Seymour says her left eye is green and her right eye is brown with bits of blue and green. The difference is commonly called heterochromia, but public interviews do not establish a clinical subtype or cause.

Seymour's first-person descriptions establish the visible colors and laterality. They do not constitute an eye examination, so this article describes asymmetric iris pigmentation without diagnosing complete, sectoral, or another clinical subtype.

Multiple direct interviews

Reviewed

David Bowie

Musician and actor

Blue irises with unequal pupil sizes

Full answer and evidence limits

David Bowie had blue irises. His left pupil remained permanently dilated after a reported injury, producing anisocoria—unequal pupil sizes—and a dark appearance that is often mislabeled as heterochromia.

The answer is based on The Open University’s sourced explanation and a MedlinePlus clinical reference for anisocoria. The portrait is illustrative and is not used to diagnose or measure Bowie’s eyes.

University explainer + clinical reference

Reviewed

Daniela Ruah

Actor and director

A right-eye birthmark, not ordinary iris heterochromia

Full answer and evidence limits

Daniela Ruah says the darker appearance of her right eye comes from a birthmark called a nevus of Ota. She explains that it covers the white of the eye and darkens it, so the feature should not be described as ordinary iris heterochromia or reduced to two simple iris-color labels.

Ruah's first-person explanation is reported by Entertainment Tonight from her Esquire interview. General ophthalmology information from the American Academy of Ophthalmology's EyeWiki explains nevus of Ota at a population level; it is not Ruah's medical record and is not used here to infer her individual care, risk, or prognosis.

First-person explanation + AAO reference

Reviewed

Mila Kunis

Actor and producer

Dark green to hazel now; formerly blue and green before surgery

Full answer and evidence limits

Mila Kunis says her eyes used to be two different colors—one blue and one green—before eye surgery. She later said an implanted lens made them the same color and has described their present appearance as dark green or hazel, sometimes reading brown.

Kunis's interviews support a past acquired color difference, chronic eye illness, cataracts, surgery, and a later matching appearance. They do not publicly establish which eye was affected, a congenital origin, or a clinical heterochromia subtype.

First-person medical history

Reviewed

Complete, sectoral, and central describe distributions

Cleveland Clinic distinguishes complete heterochromia, where the two eyes differ in color; sectoral heterochromia, where a section differs within an iris; and central heterochromia, where a contrasting inner ring surrounds the pupil. Those terms describe where the difference appears. They do not, on their own, identify the cause.

Start with that distribution when reading a celebrity example. A short phrase such as different-colored eyes can lose the distinction between an entire iris and one localized area. A good description retains the visible pattern and the limits of the reporting instead of filling those gaps with an assumed medical history.

Sources for this section: [1] Cleveland Clinic

Scherzer and Eve: a difference between the two eyes

MLB identifies Max Scherzer’s left eye as brown and right as blue. Glamour’s interview identifies Alice Eve’s left eye as blue and right as green; Eve says the difference is usually not very noticeable. The latter is a useful reminder that a documented difference need not look equally dramatic in every photograph.

These examples support a between-eye comparison. They also show why the person’s left and right should be stated in words when the source supplies them: an image viewed from the front can make casual descriptions of sides confusing. This guide follows the published assignments rather than guessing from an image orientation.

Sources for this section: [2] MLB; [3] Glamour

Bosworth and Seymour: shorthand can hide the pattern

W Magazine’s Bosworth profile uses the convenient hazel-and-blue shorthand. All About Vision adds the important detail: a hazel mixture occupies the lower part of one iris, contrasting with its remaining blue and the other eye. Blue with a localized hazel sector is therefore more informative than implying that one entire iris is uniformly hazel.

In the interview published by IOL, Jane Seymour’s eyes are described as one brown and one green, and she says she has contacts that can make them one color when a role requires it. That supports a broad pairing and a specific production possibility. The shorthand does not establish uniform color throughout each iris. It also does not mean every screen appearance shows her natural mismatch or that a public interview provides a clinical subtype.

Sources for this section: [4] W Magazine; [5] All About Vision; [6] IOL

Bowie and Ruah: identify the part of the eye involved

The Open University explains Bowie’s mismatched appearance through a permanently dilated left pupil, called anisocoria. The larger dark opening can dominate the appearance without establishing two differently pigmented irises. This makes Bowie a valuable comparison case, but an inaccurate shortcut example of complete heterochromia.

Daniela Ruah supplies another anatomical distinction. In Entertainment Tonight’s report, she describes a birthmark called nevus of Ota that covers and darkens the white of her eye. The relevant feature is surrounding tissue, not simply a second iris-color label. When a whole eye looks darker, locate the difference before deciding which descriptive term applies.

Sources for this section: [7] The Open University; [8] Entertainment Tonight

Kunis: an eye-color answer needs a timeline

In WIRED’s interview, Mila Kunis describes dark green or hazel eyes and recalls blue-and-green eyes before surgery. Her verified AMA says an implanted lens made her eyes the same color. Repeating the earlier mismatch as an unqualified current fact drops the most important part of her account.

MedlinePlus explains that heterochromia may be inherited or acquired. Celebrity lists should not treat these as equivalent histories. Use Kunis’s own timeline, retain uncertainty about details she does not establish, and avoid inferring the onset or cause of another person’s color difference from a visual resemblance.

Sources for this section: [9] WIRED; [10] Reddit IAmA; [11] MedlinePlus Genetics, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Common questions

Did David Bowie have heterochromia?

The Open University explains the famous mismatch as unequal pupil size, or anisocoria. It does not support labeling the appearance as two differently colored irises.

Is Kate Bosworth’s whole eye hazel?

The more specific source describes a localized hazel section in an otherwise blue iris, rather than a uniformly hazel eye.

Does heterochromia always indicate an illness?

No. The medical references describe harmless variation as well as acquired causes. A new or changing difference should be assessed by an eye-care professional.

Sources and claim limits

References are linked where they are used. A source can support a reported description or explain a general eye feature without proving every claim made about a celebrity.

Read how we verify celebrity eye color claims. To suggest a correction or a stronger source, email support@irisanalyzer.com with the profile name and a link to the evidence.

  1. [1] Heterochromia

    Cleveland Clinic · Source checked

    Complete, sectoral and central heterochromia describe different visible color distributions. A new or changing color difference should be assessed by an eye-care professional.

  2. [2] Before Max Scherzer was postseason bound

    MLB · Source checked · Published

    MLB identifies Scherzer's left iris as brown and right iris as blue and calls the pattern complete heterochromia.

  3. [3] Alice Eve's Star Trek Beauty Secrets

    Glamour · Source checked · Published

    A direct beauty interview reports a blue left eye and green right eye and discusses makeup context.

  4. [4] Flying High

    W Magazine · Source checked · Published

    W Magazine reports heterochromia and describes Bosworth's eyes as hazel and blue.

  5. [5] Celebrities with different-colored eyes (heterochromia)

    All About Vision · Source checked · Published

    The published vision reference describes a localized hazel section within one otherwise blue iris as sectoral heterochromia.

  6. [6] Jane Seymour's recipe for youthfulness

    IOL · Source checked · Published

    In a direct interview, Seymour describes one eye as brown and one as green and says matching contacts have sometimes been used for roles.

  7. [7] Why were David Bowie's eyes two different colours?

    The Open University · Source checked · Published

    Bowie's mismatched appearance came from a permanently dilated left pupil rather than two differently colored irises. The Open University reports that both irises were blue and connects the fixed pupil to an injury in 1962.

  8. [8] Daniela Ruah's ‘I Hate Skinny’ Mentality

    Entertainment Tonight · Source checked · Published

    Ruah says a birthmark called nevus of Ota covers and darkens the white of her right eye and does not affect her vision.

  9. [9] Mila Kunis and Justin Theroux Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

    WIRED · Source checked

    Kunis describes her eyes as dark green or hazel and says they previously looked blue and green before surgery.

  10. [10] Mila Kunis AMA

    Reddit IAmA · Source checked · Published

    In a verified AMA, Kunis says an implanted lens made her eyes the same color.

  11. [11] Is eye color determined by genetics?

    MedlinePlus Genetics, U.S. National Library of Medicine · Source checked · Published

    Human iris color lies on a continuum and is commonly grouped into broad categories. Melanin and the combined effects of multiple genes contribute to visible eye color.

  12. [12] Heterochromia

    MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine · Source checked

    Heterochromia refers to different eye colors and can be inherited or acquired. A new change in one eye's color should be evaluated by an eye-care professional.

  13. [13] Scherzer part of USA Today crossword

    MLB · Source checked · Published

    MLB records Scherzer's own public joke about listing his eye color as “DIC” and describes one brown and one blue eye.

  14. [14] Yes, Max Scherzer has two different colored eyes

    The Washington Post · Source checked · Published

    Reporting quotes Scherzer's mother saying the difference was visible in infancy and that one eye shifted from green to brown.

  15. [15] Alice Eve, the Beautiful New Trekkie

    The Daily Beast · Source checked · Published

    In a direct interview, Eve confirms that one eye is green and the other blue; the interviewer reports left blue and right green.

  16. [16] Alice Eve's Two Different Colored Eyes

    Team Coco · Source checked

    A verified interview video records Eve discussing her differently colored eyes.

  17. [17] Credo: Alice Eve

    The Independent · Source checked · Published

    Eve says the difference between her eyes is most noticeable in direct sunlight.

  18. [18] For Jane Seymour, James Bond Was a Second Choice

    The Wall Street Journal · Source checked · Published

    Seymour describes her right eye as brown with blue and green areas and her left eye as green.

  19. [19] See Jane Run

    Psychology Today · Source checked · Published

    A published profile independently notes Seymour's differently colored eyes.

  20. [20] Anisocoria

    MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine · Source checked

    Anisocoria means unequal pupil size; pupils normally change size with light. A sudden or unexplained new pupil-size difference warrants medical evaluation.

  21. [21] Eye Colors

    Cleveland Clinic · Source checked

    Eye-color labels describe broad categories rather than universally agreed standardized shades. Hazel can combine visible brown, gold and green tones.

  22. [22] Oculodermal Melanocytosis (Nevus of Ota)

    EyeWiki, American Academy of Ophthalmology · Source checked

    The ophthalmology reference explains that nevus of Ota can include pigmentation of ocular tissues such as the sclera.

  23. [23] A novel eye color classification scale for epidemiological studies

    Eye (Nature) via PubMed Central · Source checked · Published

    Reproducible photographic iris grading depends on standardized illumination, camera settings and processing.

  24. [24] Mila Kunis: “Estuve ciega de un ojo por varios años”

    Emol · Source checked · Published

    The report records Kunis discussing chronic iritis, cataracts, impaired sight and surgery.

  25. [25] Uveitis Cataract

    EyeWiki, American Academy of Ophthalmology · Source checked

    The ophthalmology reference explains the clinical relationship between uveitis and cataract formation.