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Posted on Jan 11, 202216 Actors Who Looked *Nothing* Like The Famous People They Portrayed Vs. 16 Actors Who Were Basically Their Twins Separated At Birth
Tom Hanks looked nothing like Mister Rogers.
by Kayla Yandoli StaffLink
Recently, Variety reported that Rooney Mara will be portraying the iconic Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming biopic movie.
Variety @Variety Rooney Mara to Play Audrey Hepburn in Apple Biopic Directed by Luca Guadagnino https://t.co/ijlisHWhab 04:42 AM - 07 Jan 2022 Reply Retweet Favorite Pictorial Press / Alamy, Ron Adar / SOPA Images / AP / Via Twitter: @Variety And if my opinion counts, it's seriously one of the best casting choices Hollywood has ever made — I mean, look at this comparison! Rooney is basically Audrey's clone!
Bettmann / Getty Images / StudioCanal This got me thinking about all of the TV/movie biopics out there, and the good vs. bad casting choices Hollywood has made. So, here are some actors who looked *just* like the famous people they portrayed, and actors who totally didn't:
MISSED THE MARK: What Rami Malek looked like as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018):
20th Century Fox What the real Freddie Mercury looked like:
Michael Putland / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Kristen Stewart looked like as Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010):
Summit Entertainment / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Joan Jett looks like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Zoe Saldana looked like as Nina Simone in Nina (2016):
RLJ Entertainment What the real Nina Simone looked like:
David Redfern / Redferns / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Denzel Washington looked like as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992):
Warner Bros. Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Malcolm X looked like:
Truman Moore / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Javier Bardem looked like as Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021):
Amazon Studios What the real Desi Arnaz looked like:
Bettmann / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Viola Davis looks like as Michelle Obama in the upcoming miniseries The First Lady (2022):
Jackson Lee Davis / Jackson Lee Davis/SHOWTIME What the real Michelle Obama looks like:
Stan Honda / AFP via Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Madonna looked like as Eva Perón in Evita (1996):
Buena Vista Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Eva Perón looked like:
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Jessica Chastain looked like as Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021):
light Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Tammy Faye Bakker looked like:
Donaldson Collection / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Diana Ross looked like as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972):
Paramount Pictures What the real Billie Holiday looked like:
William Gottlieb / Redferns / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Taron Egerton looked like as Elton John in Rocketman (2019):
Paramount Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Elton John looks like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Martin Sheen looked like as John F. Kennedy in Kennedy (1983):
NBC / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real John F. Kennedy looked like:
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Sterling K. Brown looked like as Christopher Darden in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016):
FX / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Christopher Darden looks like:
Lee Celano / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Jessica Lange looked like as Joan Crawford in Feud: Bette and Joan (2017):
FX What the real Joan Crawford looked like:
Avalon / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Drew Barrymore looked like as Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens (2009):
HBO What the real Edith Bouvier Beale looked like:
Tom Wargacki / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Tom Hanks looked like as Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019):
Sony Pictures Releasing / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Mister Rogers looked like:
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Lil Mama looked like as Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013):
VH1 What the real Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes looked like:
LaFace / Arista Records MISSED THE MARK: What Angelina Jolie looked like as Gia Carangi in Gia (1998):
HBO Pictures What the real Gia Carangi looked like:
Andrea Blanch / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Halle Berry looked like as Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999):
HBO / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Dorothy Dandridge looked like:
Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Eddie Murphy looked like as Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name (2019):
Netflix / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Rudy Ray Moore looked like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Lily James looks like as Pamela Anderson in the upcoming series Pam & Tommy (2022):
Hulu The miniseries starts streaming on Hulu on Feb. 2, 2022. What the real Pamela Anderson looks like:
Pearson All-American Television / Courtesy of Everett Collection MISSED THE MARK: What Aaron Taylor-Johnson looked like as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy (2009):
Icon Film Distribution / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real John Lennon looked like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) looked like as Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records (2008):
Sony Pictures Releasing / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Chuck Berry looked like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Beyoncé looked like as Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008):
Sony Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Etta James looked like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Daniel Day-Lewis looked like as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012):
20th Century Fox / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Abraham Lincoln looked like:
Hulton Archive / Getty Images News / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Lindsay Lohan looked like as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz & Dick (2013):
Lifetime What the real Elizabeth Taylor looked like:
Archive Photos / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Uzo Aduba looked like as Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America (2020):
Hulu What the real Shirley Chisholm looked like:
Leif Skoogfors / Corbis via Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Leonardo DiCaprio looked like as Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004):
Miramax / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Howard Hughes looked like:
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive / Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Jennifer Lopez looked like as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in Selena (1997):
Warner Bros. Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Selena Quintanilla-Pérez looked like:
Arlene Richie / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What John Cusack looked like as Richard Nixon in The Butler (2013):
The Weinstein Company What the real Richard Nixon looked like:
Wally Mcnamee / Corbis via Getty Images HIT THE MARK: What Leslie Odom Jr. looked like as Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami... (2020):
Amazon Studios / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Sam Cooke looked like:
Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images MISSED THE MARK: What Meryl Streep looked like as Florence Foster Jenkins in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016):
Paramount Pictures / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Florence Foster Jenkins looked like:
Pictorial Parade / Getty Images And HIT THE MARK: What Renée Zellweger looked like as Judy Garland in Judy (2019):
Roadside Attractions / Courtesy of Everett Collection What the real Judy Garland looked like:
Hulton Archive / Getty Images If *you* could cast an actor to portray a famous person in a TV/movie biopic, who would it be? Let us know in the comments below!
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