# Doppelgängers: Who are the famous people that you know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240 "2011-10-01T09:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/1 "2011-10-01T09:26:00Z")
There is a guy at work who, ever since I started dealing with him, I was sure I knew from somewhere. Watching _Sherlock Holmes_ today I suddenly realized that [Mark Strong](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0835016/) is who I conflate with my workmate. Anyone you know that is the doppelgänger of someone well known? ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/2 "2011-10-01T10:36:23Z")
A good [friend](http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/315569_10100973230829479_6839990_69034457_809476279_n.jpg) of mine looks very much like Kevin Bacon, even more so in profile than head on. My dad looks like Al Pacino in the 80s/90s, even went as Scarface for Halloween last year and looked dead-on. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/3 "2011-10-01T10:42:33Z")
Garrison Keillor is a work buddy. He’s a musician and yesterday we talked about how he should start a Keillor tribute band. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/4 "2011-10-01T11:00:06Z")
My friend Paul is a dead ringer for [Nathan Lane](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001447/). He’s a flight attendant on a major US airline and has kept a tally of how many flights he’s had when _no one_ said something about the resemblance. It’s very rare. It took him 9 years of flying in and out of LAX before he finally ended up with Nathan Lane on a flight (though over the years he had a lot of people who worked with Lane) and Lane was completely taken aback, the similarities between them are so strong. They even have similar voices; my friend is also a singer, they have the same sort of slightly camp mannerisms, and both are gay. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/5 "2011-10-01T17:12:29Z")
There’s someone I used to work with who looked and sounded like Max Grodenchik’s character, the Ferengi **Rom** from **Deep Space Nine**. Yes, in makeup. Don’t tell him I said so. > **[Rom (Star Trek)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_(Star_Trek))** > > Rom is a recurring character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is played by Max Grodénchik. > Rom is a Ferengi, the son of Keldar and Ishka. He is Quark's younger brother, and the father of Nog. On the show he is often used for comic relief, but over the show's run the character grows in importance. In the early seasons, he works at Quark's bar. > Max Grodenchik previously played two different Ferengi characters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Captain's Holiday" and "The Perfect Mat... ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/6 "2011-10-01T17:20:10Z")
I’ve been told I look like this [guy](http://www.topnews.in/light/files/Leonardo-DiCaprio_18.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/7 "2011-10-01T17:26:19Z")
I have a friend who looks very much like Liam Neeson. In fact, when a headshot of Liam was on the cover of a major magazine some years back, several of us talked about getting Tony to autograph them for us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/8 "2011-10-01T18:01:07Z")
I make it a rule never to ask someone who looks like a celebrity “Has anyone ever told you that…?” Just once I broke the rule because I met a maintenance man who looked so much like the young Paul McCartney I couldn’t help myself. I got as far as using the line above, and not the name, when he said “Yes!” in a rather annoyed tone. I backed off. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/9 "2011-10-01T18:14:18Z")
Not somebody I know, but me - last week a library patron said “You know who you look like? That girl from _The Goonies_!” Now, I haven’t seen that movie in decades, so I checked it out yesterday and fired it up and holy crap I am a dead ringer for a young Martha Plimpton. It’s creeping me out how striking it is, especially at certain angles. (On the other hand, she looked mega-hot at the Emmys, so I guess I have that to look forward to.) ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/10 "2011-10-01T19:50:14Z")
When I had longer hair, people told me I looked like Harry Potter. I was not amused. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/11 "2011-10-01T19:56:58Z")
I chat on the commuter train every morning with Seth Green and Neil Patrick Harris. Tina Fey used to take the train with us, but she and her husband moved. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/12 "2011-10-01T20:03:26Z")
I tend to ‘see’ famous people all the time. But going beyond 'hey that person kinda looks like Harry Shearer" I have a friend of a friend that could win look a like contests for Cameron Diaz and my brother’s FIL is damn near identical to Al Pacino. So much so that when he showed up at the wedding to start the pictures a bunch of the groomsmen started saying something about getting their picture taken with him and my brother quickly squelched all conversation about the topic saying that he gets really sick of hearing about it. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/13 "2011-10-01T21:06:45Z")
I worked at a hospital where one of the doctors looks exactly like Brad Pitt (when Brad was a little younger and had that super-cleancut look). Now that Brad is older, the doc looks even better. The resemblence was strong enough that people would stop and stare when he walked by. I always felt kind of bad for him…to be that good-looking, and have it attributed to someone else! ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/14 "2011-10-01T21:12:33Z")
I’ve was friends with Ben Stiller since he was a kid, but I’ve not seen him in a while. Didn’t notice until I didn’t see him in a year or so. I also used to work with a younger [Tamsin Grieg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamsin_Greig), who’s quite well known over here at least. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/15 "2011-10-01T22:08:11Z")
Guy I work with resembles Billy Ray Cyrus to the degree that people who don’t know him by name just refer to him as ‘Billy Ray’. He plays guitar and sings, too, just not C & W. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/16 "2011-10-01T22:19:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > There’s someone I used to work with who looked and sounded like Max Grodenchik’s character, the Ferengi **Rom** from **Deep Space Nine**. Yes, in makeup. Don’t tell him I said so. > > [Rom (Star Trek) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_(Star_Trek)) There was a guy in my study group in college who resembled [Beaker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_%28Muppet%29) from The Muppet Show. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/17 "2011-10-01T22:35:11Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I chat on the commuter train every morning with Seth Green and Neil Patrick Harris. Tina Fey used to take the train with us, but she and her husband moved. When I used to take the bus to college every day, I regularly saw [James Joyce.](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_N0TSGcQUzgU/TS_FUGcaJ8I/AAAAAAAAEy4/uPR-pGghwGc/s640/jamesjoyce.jpg) Even had the eyepatch and everything. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/18 "2011-10-01T23:28:07Z")
I worked with one guy who looked like pitcher Tom Glavine. Another had a goofy smile that had people calling him Spongebob. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/19 "2011-10-02T01:24:23Z")
I never paid much attention to Beavis and Butt-Head, so I don’t know which is which. But a dude I used to work with about 8 years ago was INDISTINGUISHABLE from one of them (but I don’t know which). The blond one. And my 7th grade wood shop teacher looked rather like the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes. And my 7th grade math teacher was quite reminiscent of Colonel Sanders, beard included. # – senegoid ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240/20 "2011-10-02T17:33:07Z")
I’m sitting at the front desk at work one day and a guy walks in. My first thought is “Why the hell is Mike Tyson walking into our office carrying flowers?” He was the boyfriend of a new agent. Later I learned she left him because he used to bet the crap out of her. At the New York Rennaissance Fair, there is a performer who IS a young Gilda Radner. She does not only look like and sound like Gilda, she IS her. I cannot explain it, but I was so totally amazed I asked her if she was related. Turns out she gets asked the question a lot, and she doesn’t have a clue who Gilda is. But she has to be a relative. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doppelgangers-who-are-the-famous-people-that-you-know/598240.md?page=2)