# Celebrity look-alikes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2012, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243 "2012-01-03T07:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/21 "2012-01-03T16:24:55Z")
I have been told that I bear a resemblance to lots of different celebrities. (Actually to lots of different people, period. I look pretty generic.) Anyways, these are the celebrities whose names have come up more than once: Alanis Morissette Mila Kunis Angelina Jolie ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/22 "2012-01-03T17:42:25Z")
Mine is former Major League pitcher [David Wells](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wells). I named my dog, Boomer, after him for that. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/23 "2012-01-03T17:47:25Z")
For many years, a lot of high school and gollege age kids have been calling me Jerry Garcia. I’ve also gotten Kenny Rogers, Leon Russell, and (especially this time of year) Santa Claus. ---
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/24 "2012-01-03T18:10:10Z")
I’m apparently a dead ringer for Jeremy Irons, to the point that I’ve had experiences like getting preferential treatment in a restaurant, signed autographs to get people to stop bugging me, and even got a wink and some flirtation from Liza Minelli in a Vegas casino. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/25 "2012-01-03T18:12:45Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > When I was younger I got Meryl Streep a lot. In my dreams I think I look like Demi Moore. I just peeked at your gallery portrait. The Streep resemblance persists. . ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/26 "2012-01-03T18:26:02Z")
I’ve been told I look like Macauley Culkin, Kurt Kobain and Daniel Tammet. So, basically, slim blond guys. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/27 "2012-01-03T18:41:40Z")
Over the past 45 years, I have transitioned from a young [Omar Sharif](http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/egyptian-actor-omar-sharif-8th-february-1967-news-photo/89039502) to an old [Dennis Franz](http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ApXXes_UU9R/25th+Annual+Santa+Barbara+International+Film/lYr1FU7CL7u/Dennis+Franz) Nobody is happy about this. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/28 "2012-01-03T19:48:16Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > From about age 17 to 30, I was told I looked like “My Three Sons” Robby Douglas (I was 20 in 1970). I heard it a lot, because it was true. Even I could see the resemblance. > > Now that I’m in my 60’s, I look more like Tramp. > . Robby was cute, but Tramp had _character_! Nobody dares say this to me, but I’m a middle-aged women and I look like Michael Moore :(. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/29 "2012-01-03T20:35:25Z")
A smaller younger James Gandolfini. When I was thinner (and much much younger), I got Kevin Spacey a lot. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/30 "2012-01-03T20:51:26Z")
You know, people call me the Armenian Denzel. No one has actually ever said that. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/31 "2012-01-03T22:59:51Z")
😃 > [@SciFiSam](#): > > Username/post combo ftw. 😃 > > Did your uncle get hassle from nerds when the prequels were released? I would imagine that anyone that knows what George Lucas looks like probably understands that George Lucas wouldn’t be hanging around a Pittsburgh suburb. As for someone giving him grief, I don’t fear for him. He’s. . . um, kind of a difficult man to deal with. I have had fantasies about kidnapping George Lucas and substituting my uncle, and using him to fix the crap that Lucas has done to the Star Wars franchise since _Return of the Jedi_. > [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > I have been told that I bear a resemblance to lots of different celebrities. (Actually to lots of different people, period. I look pretty generic.) > > Anyways, these are the celebrities whose names have come up more than once: > > Alanis Morissette > Mila Kunis > Angelina Jolie How YOU doin’?😃 ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/32 "2012-01-03T23:00:33Z")
I have been told that I look like (or at least remind people of) the following actors: Gary Burghoff (Radar from “MASH”) Bob Newhart Tim Conway Jack Nicholson Jason Alexander … And a cartoon character, when I was younger and had more hair on my forehead: Hermey, from “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (the elf that wanted to be a dentist) … I have grown my hair down to shoulder-length, for the first time since the mid-1990s. Recently, a woman told me that if my hair were white / gray, that I would look a lot like Leon Russell. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/33 "2012-01-03T23:46:47Z")
Funny, we were just talking about this over the weekend while I was back home celebrating Christmas with my family. My sister says I remind her of Harry Smith (the news guy), and my wife thinks I look like Steve Jobs. (In fact, last Halloween I grew about a four-day growth of beard and dressed up as Steve Jobs.) Back in college (when I had more hair) I was frequently told that I looked like Steve Martin, John Cleese, and/or Jack Nicholson. I never really saw the resemblance to any of them. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/34 "2012-01-04T01:12:50Z")
When I was younger and thinner I used to get Jodie Foster constantly. Now that I’m fat and middle-aged I’d say closer to Roger Ebert. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/35 "2012-01-04T01:35:36Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I have had fantasies about kidnapping George Lucas and substituting my uncle, and using him to fix the crap that Lucas has done to the Star Wars franchise since _Return of the Jedi_. The opposite has [already happened](http://247comedy.com/blog/george-lucas-strikes-back-sketch-06-03-2011). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/36 "2012-01-04T02:16:06Z")
Regrettably, **Drew Carey** when he was fat. So I wear my hair longish and let my beard grow, and I get hairy **Robin Williams**. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/37 "2012-01-04T04:04:29Z")
I’ve heard these more than once: Helen Hunt LeeLee Sobieski Lisa Kudrow Bonnie Bedelia Melissa Etheridge Jamie Lee Curtis (when she had longer hair) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/38 "2012-01-04T05:24:34Z")
James Spader on a good day, Malcolm McDowell on a bad. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/39 "2012-01-04T10:01:55Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > The opposite has [already happened](http://247comedy.com/blog/george-lucas-strikes-back-sketch-06-03-2011). 😃 That was GREAT! I hadn’t seen that, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243/40 "2012-01-04T10:04:25Z")
I don’t see it, but [so I’m told](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/19161_612263676942_42111580_35596470_4378168_n.jpg). That was my photo for the FB doppelganger deal a few years back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-look-alikes/608243.md?page=3)