# Celebrity lookalikes; know any? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349 "2019-07-01T15:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/41 "2019-07-02T12:35:15Z")
My son looks disturbingly like Chris O’Dowd, specifically from his IT Crowd days. Which is weird, because people always say that my son and I look alike, yet I don’t look a thing like O’Dowd. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/42 "2019-07-02T13:05:32Z")
When I go for the shaved-head-and-goatee look, I look a lot like Brian Cranston in Breaking Bad. When the show was on people would mention it to me often. I thought about trying to get gigs as an impersonator, but I never really pursued it seriously. My grandfather has been dead for many years, but when he was alive he looked a lot like Clark Gable, down to the pencil thin mustache. Now that they’re both dead, they probably look alike as well. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/43 "2019-07-02T13:17:23Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [This is my dad.](http://www.smplaw.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/yontatn.jpg) > > He claims that for the past 40 years, not a week has gone past without a stranger mentioning to him how much he resembles Richard Gere. He’s exaggerating, of course, but even I admit that the resemblance is definitely there. > > He’s aging better than Gere, though. He also looks remarkably like an EFL teacher from Canterbury that I knew in Moscow. They could have been separated at birth! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Deser2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Deser2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deser2)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/44 "2019-07-02T13:41:58Z")
This guy lives in my girlfriends apartment building in Long Beach NY. He resembles him even more in real life…it’s kinda freaky. [Hilarious Trump impersonator goes viral (video) | protothemanews.com](http://en.protothema.gr/hilarious-trump-impersonator-goes-viral-video/) I also have been told I look EXACTLY like Steve Blake (who plays, or used to play, for the Lakers - I don’t follow basketball so not even sure if he’s still playing). My beard is lot longer now so the resemblance is a little less nowadays but I have a printout of him on my office wall that people always tell me is a great picture of me. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/45 "2019-07-02T13:47:32Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Back in the 80s, I stopped by a 7-11 where the clerk was a dead ringer for George Carlin. I know someone who also looks like Carlin who met him once and got a double take from the comedian. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/46 "2019-07-02T13:51:47Z")
A current coworker of mine looks exactly like Andy Coen. A former coworker of mine looked like a young Elizabeth Henstridge (of Agents of SHIELD fame) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/47 "2019-07-02T15:07:47Z")
I work with a woman who looks just like Sonequa Martin-Green. When she starting working with us, I asked her if anyone ever told her she looked like the actress from The Walking Dead. She said no one had. She had never seen the show and had no idea who Sonequa was but agreed there was a striking resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/48 "2019-07-02T15:36:22Z")
I once drunkenly made out in college with a girl who looked like a female version of Andre the Giant. :eek: Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/49 "2019-07-02T15:40:04Z")
I was told I looked like Kyle MacLachlan when _Twin Peaks_ was first on back in the day, but more recently have been compared to Louis CK. I confess I appreciated the first comparison more… [![](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140625121535/requiemforkingsmouth/images/6/64/Agent_Cooper.jpg) ](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140625121535/requiemforkingsmouth/images/6/64/Agent_Cooper.jpg) [![](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/710585/louisck.jpg) ](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/710585/louisck.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/50 "2019-07-02T16:52:44Z")
I went to high school with a guy who was a dead ringer for Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame. Haven’t seen him since high school so no idea if the resemblance is still there. I have a co-worker who looks a lot like Brian Urlacher, they’re even close to the same age. People meeting him for the first time comment on it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/51 "2019-07-02T17:05:50Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > My son looks disturbingly like Chris O’Dowd, specifically from his IT Crowd days. Which is weird, because people always say that my son and I look alike, yet I don’t look a thing like O’Dowd. I used to know a lesbian couple where the two women simultaneously did not resemble each other, but still somehow both looked like Michael Cera. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/52 "2019-07-02T17:18:17Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I used to know a lesbian couple where the two women simultaneously did not resemble each other, but still somehow both looked like Michael Cera. I can not think of a way to tell someone they look like Michael Cera without making them cry. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/53 "2019-07-03T05:46:51Z")
There’s a hot dog vendor at the Oakland Coliseum who looks like William Devane. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/54 "2019-07-03T07:00:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I can not think of a way to tell someone they look like Michael Cera without making them cry. Even Michael Cera himself. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/55 "2019-07-03T14:26:16Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Even Michael Cera himself. After 31 years, I suspect he’s used to it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/56 "2019-07-03T14:38:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > After 31 years, I suspect he’s used to it. Doesn’t mean he has to like it. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/57 "2019-07-03T18:05:03Z")
When I was in school I knew a guy who could have been Robin Williams double. The weirdest one I ever saw was a guy who looked like Adolf Hitler. He had his hair combed like that and everything. I figure the guy must have been insane, or maybe he was the pre-internet version of a troll. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/58 "2019-07-03T18:12:30Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [This is my dad.](http://www.smplaw.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/yontatn.jpg) > > He claims that for the past 40 years, not a week has gone past without a stranger mentioning to him how much he resembles Richard Gere. He’s exaggerating, of course, but even I admit that the resemblance is definitely there. > > He’s aging better than Gere, though. Does he get any gerbil jokes? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/59 "2019-07-03T18:14:00Z")
I once had lunch in a little greasy spoon in Kansas City, the painted waitress at which bore a strong resemblance to Christy Canyon. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349/60 "2019-07-03T20:56:00Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Does he get any gerbil jokes? Have I mentioned that my dad can’t stand Richard Gere? For the past 40 years and change, he’s been complaining about how this obnoxious, wimpy, mediocre actor has been walking around with his face. I wouldn’t recommend mentioning gerbils. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-lookalikes-know-any/836349.md?page=4)