Been told ever since Northern Exposure came out that I look like Janine Turner. In fact, on more than one occasion I had my ID carefully scrutinized – guess they thought I was trying to go incognito or something.
Some times I’m told James LeGros. Some times Tim Robbins. I think I look a little like the younger, thinner Ozzy Osbourne. (Sharon are you listening? I’ve got classical acting training and I’m working on the Birmingham accent for that Ozzy biopic). 
- Perv! I have to stop leaving the windows open.
- Yep.
Shit.
Lou Reed.
I’ve been accussed of looking like Christopher Walken and Robert Redford. Do the math. I’m one weird looking dude.
Stuart Little.
Actually, I look like Why A Duck, but I guess I’ll have to wait until he becomes a celebrity for it to do me any good. Yeah. A celebrity engineer. Woo hoo.
Although, when I was in college, I appeared in the chorus of Aaron Copland’s opera The Tender Land. It’s set in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and I played one of the dirt-poor dirt farmers.
I slicked back my hair, in the style of the day, and I also sported a mustache at the time. I was told that, from the audience, I resembled Clark Gable.
That’s me, right there between John Lennon and Ed Sullivan.
[sub]At least, before I grew a beard.[/sub]
So I get a phone call last night from one of my good friends. She and her husband were watching “Portrait of a Lady”. Her husband nagged her to call me because he said I’m the spitting image of Nicole in that film.
My husband just laughed.
Well I look quite a bit like Jerrimy Clarkson, of BBC Top Gear fame. I need a haircut;)
I always get “You look just like that guy from ER!”
To which I respond, “What, the fat guy?”
Finally figured out that they meant Noah Wyle. Haven’t tried writing a prescription yet…
When I was 17, I had the Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice hairdo, was pale and gothy and dressed all in black. When I was moving into my college dorm, I was called “that Winona girl.” That was a long time ago. I was a mere waif then.
Then, several years later, I had a friend who insisted I looked like a short Jami Gertz. I can sorta see it, but my nose is different.
When I was much younger (like thirty years ago), I was told I looked like Ursula Andress. Not that I look like that anymore, I’m afraid. Oh well. Neither does Ursula.
Why thanks, Ethilrist! Golly! I have gotten the Keri Russell thing before (because of my hair) but the Nicole Kidman thing is new.
In the past, I’ve been compared to Jodie Foster (we have the same nose), and Amy Grant.
The Weinermobile driver said I reminded him of Heather Graham, but I think he just said that to get me to buy his company’s products.
Pads off to the kitchen to fix a hot dog
When I dyed my short hair red in highschool I used to get Molly Ringwald. Then when I went back to my natural color I got Alissa Milano. Someone recently said Isabelle Adjani, but I’m not really sure what she looks like! I also used to get Isabella Rosalinni - but I think that’s because of the dark hair/ pale skin thing.
when I was svelte and long-haired, it was Laura Preppon, all the way.
I know that by posting this, I am just asking for a good bashing. I’ve been told I look like Jennifer Grey…BEFORE her nose job. Any idea how demoralizing it is to be told you look like a before photo?
Cary Elwes.
The rub is, not only do I look like an, at best, second-rate celeb; but I don’t look like him when he was hot (Princess Bride, e.g.) but rather more recently when he’s a bit tubbier and getting wrinkly (uprising, e.g.)
My idiot coworker has to collar every new person in the office and ask them if I don’t look like Cathy of the comics. Of course she has the most generic face of all cartoons, so some will see it, but fortunately most say they don’t. Wish I knew how to stop her from doing that.