# Familiar looking actors... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447 "2005-04-21T17:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/1 "2005-04-21T17:35:19Z")
I was watching the movie **Criminal** last night. I was shocked by an actresses’ appearance in the film. Turns out I am dating Maggie Gyllenhaal’s double. Anyone else have this sort of thing happen? It was creepy “in a good way”. The movie: [http://imdb.com/title/tt0362526/](http://imdb.com/title/tt0362526/) Pics of Maggie: [http://imdb.com/name/nm0350454/photogallery](http://imdb.com/name/nm0350454/photogallery) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/2 "2005-04-21T17:39:45Z")
Dude, you need to watch the movie _Secretary_. Preferably with your girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/3 "2005-04-21T17:45:11Z")
One of my close friends looks an awful lot like Miguel Ferrer. And somewhat similar, but not quite: I kept seeing this guy on the train and could not, for the life of me, figure out why he looked so familiar. Every time I saw him, it bugged me. Until one day, he sat down, under an advertisement for AMC. There, over his head, was an ad showing a guy looking for a girl to watch “Working Girl” with. And I am 99% certain that the guy sitting under the ad was the guy FROM the ad. Was a little bizarre. And there is also a guy who rides my train who looks so much like a cast member of Guiding Light that I’m not entirely convinced that he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/4 "2005-04-21T17:46:28Z")
You are like the 1200th person to say that. Everyone I work with has een the movie and they all agree my gf is a dead ringer. Netflix will have it to me in a few days. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/5 "2005-04-21T17:48:04Z")
(That was to **Lou**.) ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/6 "2005-04-21T18:20:35Z")
A few years ago I took a Bar Review class which was taught by various law professors but administered by a handful of law students (who thereby got to take the class for free, I guess). Anyway, on of them looked almost exactly like a brunette Reese Witherspoon. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/7 "2005-04-21T18:31:00Z")
I once dated a girl who looks like a 75/25 mix of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Connoly. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/8 "2005-04-21T18:46:38Z")
My first serious girlfriend (the infamous Stacey) was DEAD RINGER for a young Bernadette Peters. :Drool: ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/9 "2005-04-21T18:58:15Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Dude, you need to watch the movie _Secretary_. Preferably with your girlfriend. Be careful, there. It may not be her kind of thing. Or, worse yet, it might be. :eek: Just sayin’, thas all. 😃 I keep seeing this guy who looks like the lead character on _The Pretender_ at the gas station. It took me a couple of times to realize it is actually _The Pretender_ dude. (I still can’t remember his name.) I guess he doesn’t get much work these days. Robert Forster (_Medium Cool_, _Jackie Brown_) looks like every high school principal I’ve ever seen. At the time _The Doors_ came out (when I had longer hair and was somewhat thinner that I am now) I was repeatedly accused of looking like Jim Morrison and/or Val Kilmer. I don’t see it, myself, but there you go. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/10 "2005-04-21T19:00:21Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I once dated a girl who looks like a 75/25 mix of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Connoly. Hit the jackpot with that one, didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/11 "2005-04-21T22:37:30Z")
Some guy who looks like Liam Neeson takes the same tram as me each morning. I keep trying to come up with a Star Wars fanfilm idea I can put him in. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/12 "2005-04-21T22:39:04Z")
Oh yeah, and another guy, who gets on my tram sometimes, looks like Rowan Atkinson in full _Mr Bean_ rubber-faced grotesquerie. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/13 "2005-04-21T22:53:13Z")
I used to have a counselor who looked remarkably like a thirty-something Bernadette Peters. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/14 "2005-04-21T23:08:37Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I keep seeing this guy who looks like the lead character on _The Pretender_ at the gas station. It took me a couple of times to realize it is actually _The Pretender_ dude. (I still can’t remember his name.) I guess he doesn’t get much work these days. That’s Michael T Weiss. Now if you’ll just send me the address of this gas station I will gladly go there and verify this sighting… _ahem_ I used to go to school with a guy who was a dead ringer for [Freddy Prinze Jr](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005327/) and, he’s not an actor but a guy I keep seeing around campus looks an awful lot like a blonder Bono (of U2). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/15 "2005-04-22T00:06:43Z")
Another train double: I ride the train with a guy who is a ringer for Andy Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/16 "2005-04-22T00:12:38Z")
Anyone know ‘The Chuckle Brothers’? No? It was bad kids tv from when I was still a kid (just). I think it’s still going. Anyway my geography was the spit of the smaller one. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/17 "2005-04-22T00:23:11Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Anyway my geography was the spit of the smaller one. I think there’s a word missing from this sentence. I hope it’s “teacher”. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/18 "2005-04-22T00:41:44Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I think there’s a word missing from this sentence. I hope it’s “teacher”. :smack: You’re right. I’m doing that a lot lately. It’s ‘teacher’. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/19 "2005-04-22T01:07:13Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > I used to go to school with a guy who was a dead ringer for [Freddy Prinze Jr](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005327/) That reminsd me. Back when I worked in a mail room, one of the women I delivered mail to had a son who’s a dead ringer for Howard Stern. Until the young man got a haircut. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447/20 "2005-04-22T01:16:04Z")
There’s an old family friend who looks so much like Tony Geary (Luke from General Hospital) that on a trip to Las Vegas in the early 1980s, he was mobbed by screaming fans. I’m often told I look like Joyce DeWitt, from Three’s Company. My husband looks a LOT like Tim Robbins. And our daughter is often told she bears a striking resemblence to Drew Barrymore. Celebrity lookalike-ism runs in the family - my Mom looks like a cross between Stockard Channing and Bette Midler. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/familiar-looking-actors/300447.md?page=2)