Where are the Back To The Future actors like Marty McFly and 'Doc' Brown now?

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Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi comedy hopped between 1985 and 1955
Actors played themselves at 17 and 47 with the help of prosthetic make-up
What do they look like in real life 30 years on compared to their estimates?

Published: 10:42 EST, 21 October 2015 | Updated: 14:16 EST, 21 October 2015

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Today is the day in Back to the Future Part II that Marty McFly and 'Doc' Brown arrive in Hill Valley after travelling forward in time from 1985.

The world as imagined by director Robert Zemeckis - with hoverboards, self-lacing sneakers and flying vehicles - seemed a long shot when Back to the Future II came out in December 1989.

Fans of the series are marking Wednesday's landmark date by celebrating some of the predictions that came true in the futuristic saga - and some that didn't.

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Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi comedy hopped between 1985 and 1955 - challenging actors - including Christopher Lloyd, Michael J Fox and Lea Thompson - to play themselves at 17 and 47 with the help of Ken Chase's prosthetic make-up (pictured in 2010)

Robert Zemeckis' Oscar-winning sci-fi comedy hopped between 1985 and 1955 - challenging the charismatic actors to play themselves at 17 and 47 with the help of Ken Chase's prosthetic make-up.

But what happened to the actors who played themselves thirty years on in the film? And what do really they look like in the future? FEMAIL finds out...

The cast have clearly aged better than their characters (pictured in the film)

MARTY MCFLY: PLAYED BY MICHAEL J. FOX

Cast to replace Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, a teen accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955, Fox's career was cemented by this role.

He quickly became widely- regarded as one of America's most esteemed comedy actors, landing roles in Teen Wolf, Light of Day, The Secret of My Success and Bright Lights, Big City.

Aside from the brassy hair colour, Michael J. Fox - now 54 - really resembles the 47-year-old Marty McFly from Back to the Future Part II (1989).

The four-time Golden Globe winner - who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 - now plays indestructible attorney Louis Canning on CBS' The Good Wife.

Aside from the brassy hair colour, Michael J. Fox - now 54 - really resembles the 47-year-old Marty McFly from Back to the Future Part II

LORRAINE BAINES-MCFLY: PLAYED BY LEA THOMPSON

Lea Thompson is now 54 - seven years older than the boozy, bloated Lorraine Baines-McFly was at the beginning of the time-traveling classic. And, as these photos attest, she has fared a lot better than her character.

The former Dancing with the Stars contestant - who still gets asked to autograph purple Calvin Klein Y-fronts - was just 24 when she endured three hours of make-up application.

Lea Thompson looks gorgeous at 54 - seven years older than the boozy, bloated Lorraine Baines-McFly was at the beginning of the time-traveling classic (pictured Wednesday)

'Well, it's so funny because they'd be like, "Oh you look so old!" And now, of course, I'm there,' Thompson laughed on the Today Show in 2010.

'But especially in Back to the Future [Part II], I was covered in plastic when I was Lorraine with the big boobs. That was a real dream of mine.'

Lea currently plays author Kathryn Kennish on the fourth season of Switched at Birth on ABC Family.

The former Dancing with the Stars contestant - who still gets asked to autograph purple Calvin Klein Y-fronts - was just 24 when she endured three hours of make-up application

DR EMMETT 'DOC'BROWN: PLAYED BY CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

Christopher Lloyd - now 76 - rocked a shock of white hair as the 1985 version of inventor Dr. Emmett 'Doc' Brown.

'It's amazing after 30 years that it thrives the way it does and continues to grow,' the three-time Emmy winner told People at a recent Hollywood Bowl screening.

'Kids who saw it when it first came out are adults with children now, and it's cycling. It just keeps going on. It's extraordinary, and the impact it's had on so many people's lives. It's sort of stunning.'

Christopher Lloyd - now 76 - rocked a shock of white hair as the 1985 version of inventor Dr. Emmett 'Doc' Brown (pictured January 15)

Two years ago, Fox reunited with Lloyd on his now-cancelled NBC sitcom where he guest-starred as a high school principal.

Christopher can currently be seen as Professor Hargraves on BYUtv's Granite Flats, which is on Netflix.

GEORGE MCFLY: PLAYED BY CRISPIN GLOVER

Crispin Glover was 21 when he played Marty's awkward father George McFly and now, at 51, he doesn't appear to have any wrinkles.

Some fans might not even realise that the eccentric actor-director was replaced by Jeffrey Weissman for both of the BTTF sequels.

In the summer, Glover played real-life revolutionary Moseley Baker in the History Channel's 10-hour miniseries, Texas Rising.

'My density has brought me to you': Crispin Glover was 21 when he played Marty's awkward father George McFly and now, at 51, he doesn't appear to have any wrinkles (pictured June 15)

BIFF TANNEN: PLAYED BY THOMAS F. WILSON

Thomas F. Wilson - now 56 - is practically the spitting image of the 47-year-old version of reformed bully Biff Tannen.

The stand-up comedian voiced Ben Tweedy in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, and he also voices Banana on Nickelodeon's Pig Goat Banana Cricket.

'Make like a tree and get outta here': Thomas F. Wilson - now 56 - is practically the spitting image of the 47-year-old version of reformed bully Biff Tannen (pictured in 2012)

'When this baby hits 88 miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious s***!' Back to the Future amassed $392M at the box office worldwide and eventually spawned two sequels, which grossed a combined $575.5M