Because I keep getting told I look like the singer from Evanescance. I can’t see it myself, but everyone else can, to the extent that upon turning on the tv to see them performing for the first time, a friend of mine started calling everyone we know and telling them to turn on their tellys quickly, because I was on it!*
Prior to this, the only famous person I was ever likened to was Betty Boop (the cartoon character, not the pop singer), when my hair was shorter - I think that was just the kiss curls though!
*That’s not as ludicrous as it sounds, as I am a singer and am trying to break into the industry.
Well, it’s debatable how famous he is, but I look amazingly like political cartoonist Paul Szep, once of the Boston Globe (although my chin is less Leno-ish).
I look so much like him that someone once tore out one of those “Dewar’s Profile” whiskey ads featuring him, obscured the name, and stuck it on the door of my lab. All day long people asked me how I got in a whiskey ad. And they weren’t joking.
When I was younger, and she was famous, I used to get Molly Ringwald. A lot. If you took away the red hair and dark eyes, though, you wouldn’t see much resemblence.
I also get “you look exactly like my friend/cousin” all the time. I’ve never met anyone that looks like me though.
Aparantly I look like Vincent D’onofrio (sp?) from Full Metal Jacket. Can’t see it myself but I have a couple of mates who always refer to me as Gomer Pyle when we are out drinking.
I’m proud to say that when I was fatter and more tanned, I was said to be the separated at birth spit of the one and only Dale Winton !
I beat the accusers so hard they still can’t see straight.
When I had red hair I used to get told that I looked like Dana Scully on the X-Files. Which was really annoying. I would get all these x-philes asking me for dates. It didn’t help that I don’t watch TV and had no idea who they were talking about.
Now that I’m back to blonde, I usually get that ‘You look like my cousin’. Or some variant. But I recently saw a pic of the actress who played Dana Scully with blonde hair. She’s copying me, I just know it. Sneaky bitch.
Many people have told me I look like Tori Amos, especially when my hair was long. I don’t see it, but apparently everyone else does, because I’ve been hearing about it for at least 10 years!
Over the years, I’ve gotten the “you look like Claire Danes” comment, especially if I’ve got short hair. Biggest difference: I’ve got rather large breasts, and hers tend to be easily hidden. If she were ever to play me in a tv movie, she’d have to get some really, really, thickly padded bras. ::sheepish grin::
I look a lot like Lindsay Davenport, the tennis player. (by a lot, I mean people have mistaken me for her)
I used to get Claire Danes, but not since high school… I think if I lost some weight and got my hair to her ‘my so called life’ length again, I’d get more recognition.
I was also told once that I looked like Billy Corgan, but I think that person was delusional.
I’ve been told I look like Heath Ledger on a few occasions by a few different people. It’s a shame I don’t have the accent thingy going on, I could probably steal his identity or something. Oh curse these useless good looks…
When I had longer hair and a goatee and my sideburns were longer, more than one person told me I look like the wrestler Chris Jericho.
I’ve also gotten “the singer from Smash Mouth” (Steve Harwell) because of the sideburns/goatee combo, and “the singer from Weezer” (Rivers Cuomo), back when I used to wear sunglasses with thick black plastic square frames.
I have been told on occassion that I look like <url=http://www.starscream.com/natasha/>Natasha Henstridge</url>, and I think it’s something about the eyes and nose.
I don’t get mistaken for celebrities, but like someone else posted, I’m often told (well, more often than seems normal) that I look just like someone’s friend/cousin/classmate/etc. Odd.
Me too. Every time I moved and met a new group of people, one or two would tell me I was the twin of somebody they knew that lived somewhere else.
I also found a few “lost twins” myself. There was a guy in high school in Florida who the spitting image of a guy I went to high school with in Arizona.
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