# Lookalike Actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779 "2008-06-13T06:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 13, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/1 "2008-06-13T06:59:57Z")
[Jennifer Garner](http://www.themomsbuzz.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/18/jennifer_garner_2.jpg) [Amanda Peet](http://www.vizyonmax.com/dosyalar/amanda.jpg) [Hilary Swank](http://access.nscpcdn.com/gallery/i/s/swank/Swank_AG02589088.jpg) [Missy Peregrym](http://cdn.maximonline.com/uploadedCmsFiles/Slides/54_missyperbgrym_2997.jpg) They don’t look _exactly_ alike when you line them up next to each other, and I can tell them apart just fine, but they could easily play convincing sisters in a movie. Preferably a porn movie. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/2 "2008-06-13T11:00:03Z")
[Arnold Schwarzenegger](http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/54/039_22741~Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Posters.jpg) [Charlton Heston](http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/173466~Charlton-Heston-Posters.jpg) I’ve always thought Arnold looked like a Charlton Heston lookalike with muscles. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/3 "2008-06-13T11:06:01Z")
Oh, and Jennifer Garner should bequeath her skull to science. Unless those cheekbones are fake, she’s obviously a mutant. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/4 "2008-06-13T11:30:09Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] They don’t look _exactly_ alike when you line them up next to each other, and I can tell them apart just fine, but they could easily play convincing sisters in a movie. [/QUOTE] That’s because they all have a bit of horseface about them. [Winona Ryder](http://fametastic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/winona_ryder_01.jpg) = [Moira Kelly](http://www.vidiot.com/OneTreeHill/images/MoiraKelly-2004-1s.jpg) [Rachel Weisz](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Drachel%2Bweisz&w=400&h=500&imgurl=www.poster.net%2Fweisz-rachel%2Fweisz-rachel-photo-rachel-weisz-6206527.jpg&size=41.1kB&name=weisz-rachel-photo-rachel-weisz-6206527.jpg&rcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postershop.co.uk%2FWeisz-Rachel%2FWeisz-Rachel-Photo-Rachel-Weisz-6206527.html&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postershop.co.uk%2FWeisz-Rachel%2FWeisz-Rachel-Photo-Rachel-Weisz-6206527.html&p=Rachel+Weisz&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=56&oid=95c9be3866609750&tit=weisz-rachel-photo-rachel-weisz-6206527.jpg&sigr=12lsh2js5&sigi=127ihh44a&sigb=11m72usqe) = [Carla Gugino](http://www.deluxe-celebs.com/qwe1/carla-gugino/carla-gugino-015.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/5 "2008-06-13T13:29:17Z")
I no longer visually confuse Hugh Jackman and Dermot Mulroney. However, I _verbally_ confuse Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/6 "2008-06-13T13:32:36Z")
[Julia Roberts](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm213032192/nm0000210) and [Monica Potter](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3940851456/nm0005321). ---
**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:** [June 13, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/7 "2008-06-13T15:01:39Z")
[Dina Meyer](http://douglas.nerad.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/dinameyer.jpg) and [Keri Russell](http://tvcocktail.ivillage.com/entertainment/E_KeriRussell_325.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/8 "2008-06-13T15:09:34Z")
[Jake Gyllenhall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:JakeGyllenhaalcropped.jpg) and [Jonathan Togo](http://foto.osobnosti.cz/jonathan-togo-146633) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/9 "2008-06-13T15:25:17Z")
[Rainn Wilson](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1799198208/nm0933988) and [Garrison Keillor](http://www.answers.com/topic/garrison-keillor?cat=entertainment). [Chevy Chase](http://www.nndb.com/people/499/000024427/Chevy4.jpg) and [Paul Simon](http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/paulsimon/photos/collection/photo/9) ---
**Author:** ![WomanofScorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@WomanofScorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WomanofScorn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/10 "2008-06-13T15:28:07Z")
There was a similar thread about this [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=407201&highlight=actors+alike) that has some good ones. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/11 "2008-06-13T15:48:09Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I no longer visually confuse Hugh Jackman and Dermot Mulroney. However, I _verbally_ confuse Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott. [/QUOTE] [Billy Bob Thornton](http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061007/244.thornton.billy.100506.jpg) and [Harry Dean Stanton](http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1560/1143167953hp4.jpg) Maybe it is just me, maybe it’s the three name thing, but I can never keep these two straight. Yet I love pretty much all they’ve done. (Billy Bob has supposedly had some cosmetic surgery, while I bet Harry Dean has not.) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/12 "2008-06-13T16:13:56Z")
For **Doctor Who** fans, there’s - [Lalla Ward](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/8982/LWard.jpg) (Romana #2) and [Billie Piper](http://www.enjoyfrance.com/images/stories/world/entertainment/Billie-Piper.jpg) (Rose Tyler). ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/13 "2008-06-13T16:20:51Z")
Rachel Weisz & Kate Winslet I always thought Dennis Quaid looked like Harrison Ford after a night of drinking (and possibly a barfight). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/14 "2008-06-13T16:27:05Z")
Leelee Sobieski and Helen Hunt. If it weren’t for the age difference, they’d be twins. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/15 "2008-06-13T16:43:26Z")
The most famous pair is probably [Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence.](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU1MzgxNDUyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDA5OTI2._V1._SY400_SX600_.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.imdb.com/rg/photos-name/summary/media/rm2761332736/nm0493069&h=300&w=450&sz=37&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=7RiInfyeIaW5vM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcarol%2Bburnett%2Bvicki%2Blawrence%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den) The similarity in appearance is a large part of why Vicki was hired to be on The Carol Burnett Show. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/16 "2008-06-13T16:47:13Z")
I’ve had a little trouble distinguishing between Charlize Theron and Ashley Judd when their hair’s colored similar. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/17 "2008-06-13T17:56:47Z")
[Tim Allen](http://blog.sunrooms360.com/2007/09/conneticut-home-improvement-tim-allen.html) and his evil twin [Andy Dick](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3718486784/nm0004873). Strange but true: Tim Allen was born Timothy Allen Dick Andy Dick’s biological mother has the last name of Tomlinson, he was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/18 "2008-06-13T18:01:10Z")
[QUOTE=Icarus] [Tim Allen](http://blog.sunrooms360.com/2007/09/conneticut-home-improvement-tim-allen.html) and his evil twin [Andy Dick](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3718486784/nm0004873). Strange but true: Tim Allen was born Timothy Allen Dick Andy Dick’s biological mother has the last name of Tomlinson, he was adopted at birth by Allen and Sue Dick. [/QUOTE] That’s a lot of Dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/19 "2008-06-13T18:18:34Z")
David Wenham and Sean Bean were good choices to play brothers in the Lord of the Ring. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/20 "2008-06-13T22:56:55Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] That’s a lot of Dicks. [/QUOTE] You said a mouthful!..um, I mean…oh, never mind… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779.md?page=2)