# How to tell these often mixed up celebrities apart. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181 "2016-08-27T20:39:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/81 "2016-08-29T23:26:06Z")
Jakov Smirnoff F. Murray Abraham ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/82 "2016-08-29T23:33:22Z")
My own lookalikes: [Minka Kelly](http://www.stylebistro.com/lookbook/Minka+Kelly/-zgVK9n-qKX/angle/ksGTzExGKCL) and [Erinn Hayes](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141613/) [Kerry Bishe](http://www.lazygirls.info/Kerry_Bishe/Kerry_uw2y45uI) and [Marin Ireland](http://images.amcnetworks.com/amctv.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/div_marin_ireland_bio_460x4601.jpg), but not when they smile so it’s hard to find examples. [Teresa Palmer](http://akff.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/968full-teresa-palmer.jpg) and [Amber Heard](http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/amber-heard/images/35421432/title/amber-wallpaper-wallpaper) [Amber Tamblyn](http://seriestv-static.hola.com/serieadictos/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2013/08/amber-tamblyn-47.jpg) and [Brittany Allen](http://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/11840_1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/83 "2016-08-30T02:02:01Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > [Jan Smithers](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e4/4a/f1/e44af17b4467c35cb133d1656b487cf9.jpg). (It was the long, willowy, auburn hair look.) Now I always got Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters) confused with [Marcia Strassman](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2014/299/137834564_1414397747.jpg) (Julie Kotter) ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/84 "2016-08-30T03:36:03Z")
Will Patton - General Bethlehem Bill Paxton - was in Agents of SHIELD OK, I confused _them._ \_ Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero, the Prez in Independence Day, and “Mr. Wrong” Jeff Daniels - in Dumb & Dumber and The Newsroom. Actually, I’m not sure I confuse the two of them so much as I keep thinking there’s a third one of them somehow who does the dumb comedies. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/85 "2016-08-30T04:44:50Z")
I still get Nick Nolte and Gary Busey mixed up. Grizzled crazy white guys all look alike. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/86 "2016-08-31T11:56:56Z")
Bill Paxton: Usually has short hair with no part. Bill Pullman: Usually has longer, poufy hair with left part. Bill Paxton: [Earlobes](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/31/article-0-1B12BC8D000005DC-887_634x515.jpg) Bill Pullman: [Earlobes](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/9d/81/99/9d819907e82220a6f46bac9aa7b64b73.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/87 "2016-08-31T14:14:52Z")
from Sesame Street: Cookie Monster: blue, wants cookie Oscar the Grouch: green, in garbage can Grover: blue, not wanting cookie or sitting in garbage can For years I had only a black & white television and would get these three mixed up. I never saw Sesame Street as a child, I was grown before the show started. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/88 "2016-08-31T14:54:45Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Now I always got Jan Smithers (Bailey Quarters) confused with [Marcia Strassman](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2014/299/137834564_1414397747.jpg) (Julie Kotter) Scooby Gang: But the true owner of the haunted WKRP and Kotter sitcom sets is…_tears off mask_ Everyone: Pam Dawber! Pam: And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids! ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181/89 "2016-08-31T16:35:06Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I still get Nick Nolte and Gary Busey mixed up. Grizzled crazy white guys all look alike. Same with me. I think I’m becoming a grizzled crazy white guy…wonder if I look like Nick Busey myself? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-these-often-mixed-up-celebrities-apart/764181.md?page=4)