# Do you look like anyone famous?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 26, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151 "2004-01-26T14:48:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/1 "2004-01-26T14:48:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/2 "2004-01-26T14:53:08Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/3 "2004-01-26T14:54:56Z")
Famous people I have been told on multiple occasions that I look like:
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[li]Helen Mirren (a younger version)[/li][li]Claire Danes (an older version ☹ )[/li][li]Suzanne Vega[/li][li]and, er, Peppermint Patty[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/4 "2004-01-26T14:59:29Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/5 "2004-01-26T15:05:55Z")
Hmm, the more hilarious members of my hometown used to delight in telling me I look like Eddie Hitler off Bottom when I get my head shaved, like now.
You sound better and better Jenny. I fucking hate Evanescense, but the lead singers not 3 bad. 😃
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/6 "2004-01-26T15:09:45Z")
Well, I’ve been told I look like a younger **Robert Redford** …Probably because my hair looks nearly exactly like his. That is the one I get the most.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/7 "2004-01-26T15:32:01Z")
## Yes.
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### Author:  [@UselessGit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UselessGit)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/8 "2004-01-26T16:09:28Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/9 "2004-01-26T16:11:00Z")
- for UK and Oirish dopers only:
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.
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/10 "2004-01-26T16:19:23Z")
> [@London\_Calling](#):
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> - for UK and Oirish dopers only:
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> 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.
Oh you poor soul. There’s just no need.
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/11 "2004-01-26T16:40:36Z")
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Thank you contestant Jenny, and where do you come from . . . ?
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### Author:  [@jellytoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellytoes)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/12 "2004-01-26T16:52:45Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/13 "2004-01-26T20:31:59Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/14 "2004-01-26T21:44:26Z")
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::
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/15 "2004-01-27T00:25:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@TheOtherOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOtherOne)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/16 "2004-01-27T01:06:17Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/17 "2004-01-27T01:17:47Z")
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.
And **Jennyrosity** , how YOU doin’? 🆒
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### Author:  [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/18 "2004-01-27T02:57:49Z")
I have been told on occassion that I look like \Natasha Henstridge\, and I think it’s something about the eyes and nose.
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### Author:  [@Cosmopolitan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmopolitan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/19 "2004-01-27T02:59:11Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-like-anyone-famous/226151/20 "2004-01-27T03:13:04Z")
> [@Cosmopolitan](#):
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> 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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