53 Actors Who Look Incredibly Similar to the Historical Figures They Play

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin
Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi
Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs In Jobs
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus
Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side
Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena
Adrien Brody As Salvador Dali In Midnight In Paris
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy
Hellen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
Eddie Redmayne And Felicity Jones as Jane And Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything
Charlize Theron As Aileen Wuornos In Monster
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
James Franco As James Dean In James Dean
Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia
Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
Edie Sedgwick & Andy Warhol (sienna Miller / Guy Pearce)
Benicio Del Toro As Ernesto “che” Guevara
Hannah Taylor-gordon As Anne Frank In Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Michael Douglas as Liberace In Behind The Candelabra
Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn
Jared Leto As Mark David Chapman In Chapter 27.
John Hurt As Joseph Merrick In The Elephant Man
Glenn Miller And James Steward In The Glenn Miller Story
Reese Witherspoon and Joacquin Phoenix as June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash
Stephen Fry As Oscar Wilde
Sherilyn Fenn As Elizabeth Taylor In Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman
Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon
Joaquin Phoenix/ Johnny Cash
Will Smith As Muhammad Ali
Colin Firth as King George VI in The King’s Speech
Nicole Kidman As Virginia Woolf
Benedict Cumberbatch As Stephen Hawking In “Hawking”
Peter O’toole As Lawrence Of Arabia
John Goodman As Babe Ruth
Bill Hader As Andy Warhol
Gary Busey As Buddy Holly
Vincent D’onofrio As Orson Welles
Jessica Schwarz As Romy Schneider In Romy
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network
Madonna as Eva Peron in Evita
Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get On Up

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