This is kind of interesting. Recently actress Elizabeth Banks was confused with host Tyra Banks. They do not look alike.
I get Kate Beckinsale mixed up with Helen Baxendale, but nobody really knows the latter so I’m probably alone in that. Helen Baxendale actually looks a bit like Emily Mortimer, which adds to my confusion visually.
Bob Odenkirk is not Steve Odekerk.
Julie Benz is not Julie Bowen. Though she could easily be if she wanted.
And on a related note, I’ve seen at least one instance of someone mixing up Vera Farmiga with Sofia Vergara.
On a recent episode of Limitless, regular Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was on alongside guest Catherine Mary Stewart. I have to pause and think through both to get their names right.
In hockey I could never keep straight the six Sutter brothers who played in the 1980s, let alone their children or their coaching careers. Also the various generations of the Patrick family.
I can never get M Emmit Walsh and J T Walsh apart in my head.
I used to think I had Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds finally figured out when I see someone upthread throw in Ryan Philippe. Back to trying to separate them.
Same with Julie Bowen and Julia Benz.
Has anyone mentioned the two Julie Browns that were on MTV at the same time? One of them was “downtown” the other a redhead? Or was that kennedy?
Apparently I’ve been confusing Jennifer Garner with Jennifer Garner. I was just thinking “I always confuse that lady who was in ‘Alias’ with Ben Affleck’s wife.”
After a quick Googling, apparently I was more confused than I thought.
I completely understand that situation. I’m the same way with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep - two pretty good but not so attractive actresses with men’s first names. Do we really need both of them? One would suffice.
As for names/faces that I can’t keep straight, there are Chris O’Donnell (NCIS:LA) and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders).
Don’t even get me started on Rhianna and Rihanna. Rihanna has now become the famous one but when they were both starting out I wasn’t sure if they were two different singers or a spelling error.
Way back in the day, I had a hard time with Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck. While their names are nothing alike, they had a similarity in appearance. I even remember EH on some TV variety show introducing himself as “the other Tom Jones”.
Remember Claudia Whats-her-name? She played that pretty dark-haired lady on that science fiction show. But am I thinking of Christian or Black? And it doesn’t help that the one named Christian played a Jewish character.
Speaking of Black, when I heard that Lewis Black was playing Anger in Inside Out, I pictured Jack Black. Who would also do a pretty good job playing Anger.
Oh, and I don’t know Jack. One of them is the actor from The Shining and Six Easy Pieces, and the other is a golfer, and I still can’t remember which was which. I think Nicklaus was the golfer and Nicholson is the actor?
I always confuse Edgar Wright (writer/director of movies like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) with Nick Frost (co-star of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz).
Mainly because whenever one of these movies comes out you’ll hear it as “the new movie from Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright,” or “the new movie from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.”
There was a comedian from around the 90’s named Steve O. One of his jokes about his name. “I was on ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ I bought a vowel, and I kept it.” I can’t find any of his clips on-line. But he’s miles away from this Steve O.
