# Actors/actresses you think are the same person **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [August 25, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519 "2005-08-25T01:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/81 "2005-08-27T00:08:29Z")
I have never been able to tell the difference between [Mary-Louise Parker](http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/021002/18442__pipe_l.jpg) and [Elizabeth Perkins](http://crazy4cinema.com/Actress/imgs/EPerkins.jpg). It really confused me when I realized they were both on _Weeds_. [Brian Cox](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1407/Events/1407/BrianCox_Wargo_411333_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Cox,%20Brian%20(I)) and [Albert Finney](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/0809-eri/Events/0809-eri/finneyal.berpath=pgallery&path_key=Finney,%20Albert) are also indistinguishable to me. ---
**Author:** ![uglybeech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/82dd89/32.png) [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/82 "2005-08-27T05:11:55Z")
[Andie McDowell](http://planete.qc.ca/showbiz/images/mc%20dowell%202.jpg), [Mimi Rogers](http://www.dnevkino.ru/img/names_mrogers.jpg) and [Madeleine Stowe](http://www.celebrity-pictures-world.com/pics/m/madeleine-stowe/madeleine-stowe-007.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/83 "2005-08-27T11:31:39Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Dennis Quaid and David Keith. For me, it’s David Keith and Robert Wuhl. And since nobody else has mentioned it yet, Dave Foley and Isabella Rosselini. Of course, it’s easier to tell them apart now that Dave has gray hair and a goatee. Or is that Isabella? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/84 "2005-08-27T13:48:14Z")
Mimi Rogers and Jami Gertz ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/85 "2005-08-28T08:15:16Z")
Margaret Colin and Elizabeth Perkins… Can’t tell them apart to save my life. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/86 "2005-08-28T13:51:53Z")
Reese Witherspoon and Kirsten Dunst ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/87 "2005-08-28T15:43:49Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > I was just checking out at the supermarket and I was wondering why they used Brittany Murphy as the cover model on this month’s Cosmopolitan but didn’t mention her name on the cover. Then I saw they did mention Scarlett Johanson’s name and realized I had mistaken who it was. > > [Here’s the picture.](http://magazines.ivillage.com/cosmopolitan) I thought it was Drew Barrymore. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/88 "2005-08-28T15:47:12Z")
No one has mentioned them yet, but surely I am not the only one!! For me it is Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. I _cannot_ keep the two straight. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/89 "2005-08-28T17:22:39Z")
I was rewatching Hellboy the other day and I thought the character Liz, played by [Selma Blair](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004757/) was actually [Zooey Deschanel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221046/) (who played Trillian in HHGttG) ---
**Author:** ![JustSomeOldDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JustSomeOldDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustSomeOldDude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/90 "2019-07-19T06:32:41Z")
Morgot Kidder Elmari Wendel Carrir fisher Karen allen Jan Hooks I always thought these 5 could be sisters Sadly i think all but one are now dead. ---
**Author:** ![JustSomeOldDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f4b2a3/32.png) [@JustSomeOldDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustSomeOldDude)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/91 "2019-07-19T06:48:34Z")
Oh and i definitely agree with the statement about Caitlin Clarke and Maura Tierney When News Radio first aired, i was convinced they were the same person. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/92 "2019-07-19T08:50:46Z")
I’m a little faceblind so Harper’s Island was as confusing as all get out. All those thin blonde actresses. You can’t tell me the husband in the Jake from State Farm commercial wasn’t Vince VaughnI. ---
**Author:** ![LaughingSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/laughingsnowman/32/422_2.png) [@LaughingSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaughingSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/93 "2019-07-19T09:41:25Z")
Nina Dobrev and Victoria Justice are almost interchangeable. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/94 "2019-07-19T09:48:36Z")
Jeff Daniels and Jeff Bridges. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/95 "2019-07-19T10:02:24Z")
Thandi Newton and Zoe Saldana are both gorgeous - and get mistaken for each other! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/96 "2019-07-19T10:52:47Z")
Chris rock and Chris tucker …they play the same roles in movies the motormouth smart ass …and their voices sound the same ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/97 "2019-07-19T11:41:24Z")
Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell. Jan Smithers and Pam Dawber. Chris Evans and Chris Pine. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/98 "2019-07-19T11:48:00Z")
Keith David and David Keith 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/99 "2019-07-19T12:57:32Z")
Brad Pitt and Benecio Del Toro have been slowly moving toward convergence over the last couple of decades. In another twenty years, they may well be totally indistinguishable from each other. Anna Friel and Haylay Atwell. Maybe they’re both just English brunettes, but I can barely tell them apart. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519/100 "2019-07-19T13:36:24Z")
[Jane Levy](https://www.google.com/search?q=jane+levy&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS821US821&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3jN6ni8HjAhWDo1kKHV_WBykQ_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=969#imgrc=9MG6_MRoGvmRrM:) and [Emma Stone](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS821US821&biw=1920&bih=969&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=mcUxXbn3DJK3tQaGsIP4BA&q=emma+stone&oq=emma+stone&gs_l=img.3..0i67l2j0l8.43310.44720..45521...0.0..0.134.643.9j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......35i39.P_qBpYCNX8s&ved=&uact=5#imgrc=leHhPaD6ozx2GM:) are both adorable redheads (usually)who play “spunky” really well. They could be sisters. Years ago, Elizabeth Banks had a small part on _Modern Family_ as a crass, party girl type. I was so distracted by trying to determine if it was EB or Chelsea Handler that I missed the whole point of the storyline. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-you-think-are-the-same-person/318519.md?page=6)