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15 actors who look remarkably like historical figures they’ve portrayed
There’s always a risk in getting actors to portray real-life historical figures, but now and then you get those that so closely resemble one another that it’s almost impossible to tell them apart! Take a look at these interesting side-by-side comparisons of actors and the people they portrayed.
- Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2007)
- Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde in The Theory of Everything (2014)
- Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
- Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992)
- Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
- Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991)
- Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (2007)
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012)
- Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011)
- Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003)
- Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994)
- Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall (2004)
- Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002)
- Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs (2013)
- Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie en rose (2007)
Tell us in the comments below, which of these actors most closely resembled their subject?
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