For a long time, people would tell me I looked like ‘a young Bruce Springsteen.’ Seriously, for a time it was almost every day that someone, even just passerbys on the street, would remark to me that I looked just like him.
Eventually, Springsteen faded into the wood-work a bit, and people stopped commenting on it. Then I started getting hit with ‘You look just like Ben Affleck.’ That’s been going on for quite some time. I suppose Mr. Affleck’s star has faded a bit as well, since I’m not getting that line as often.
Then, in the past week, two people have commented that I look ‘just like Daniel Day-Lewis.’ Which is still flattering, but a bit perplexing since AFAIK, he’s not in the public eye as much any more.
FTR, here’s a few recent pictures of me…you can judge for yourself: here, here and here.
Sooooo, what famous folks have people said YOU looked like? And I dare you to show a picture of yourself along with it.
One of my mother’s friends told me the other day I looked like Goldie Hawn. But she’s a sweet ditzy ol’ fruitcake, because I look more like Ernest Borgnine than I do like Goldie Hawn.
I’ve been told I look like Liza Minnelli, which I can sort of see – short dark hair and large eyes. But now I say, “Young Liza, right?” Mostly people seem to think I look generally familiar, like they know me even when they don’t, like “didn’t we go to high school together?”.
No one’s ever suggested I look like any celebrity, and I can see why - I don’t resemble any. There was once a website (maybe there still is) where you could submit a photo of yourself and it would find your celebrity match - I was matched with a couple of men.
The only time I’ve ever been compared to anyone was some actress named Karen Black? I don’t know who she is but checking her pictures, with the exception of my chubby cheekbones and the fact that we’re both women, I see no resemblance. Of course the person who mentioned it was a little nutty.
When I was a kid, I was a dead ringer for Melissa Gilbert (we are about the same age). She grew up better looking than I did, but I think she can thank a nose job for that (we both had snub noses…mine is still snub, and hers is miraculously pointy on the end…never saw a nose just change shape like that spontaneously!)
Before my hair went gray, I looked very, very much like Tom Cruise around the time he made A Few Good Men. I once got asked for an autograph, which was flattering for me and embarassing for the young lady.
[sorta hijack]Anyone watching The Next Best Thing on ABC? It’s a celebrity impersonator contest, and some of those people are just amazing! [/sorta hijack]
Once, when I was a kid, a girl told me I looked like Loretta Lynn (which I emphatically do not and never have). All I can figure is that she must have seen Coal Miner’s Daughter and gotten Loretta mixed up with Sissy Spacek (which would still be a stretch).
I’ve also been told I look like Mary Steenburgen, which is a lot closer to the mark, only she’s old.
A couple of people told me, on separate occasions, that i looked a bit like Ewan MacGregor. I just brushed it off. Then, at the end of one semester a few years ago, one of my undergraduates wrote on the class evaluation form that “the TA bears an uncanny resemblance to Obe Wan Kenobe.”
And i don’t think she was talking about Alec Guinness.
I’ve looked at pictures of MacGregor, and i just can’t see it.
I had someone I worked with tell me I looked like an Indian film star. Not sure which one. Guess it was the bone structure, because I am very stereotypically Irish looking, except with brown hair instead of red.
