# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/21 "2008-06-14T00:29:29Z")
I always thought [George Clooney](http://www.topnews.in/uploads/George-Clooney4.jpg) and [Joshua Jackson](http://www.buddytv.com/articles/Image/what-are-they-up-to-Joshua-Jackson.jpg) could’ve made a great father-son team… S^G ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/22 "2008-06-14T00:43:13Z")
I was in my thirties before I realized that Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell were, in fact, two separate people. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/23 "2008-06-14T00:51:26Z")
I can never tell [Lee Marvin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Marvin) and [James Coburn](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:James_Coburn_in_Charade.jpg) apart. ---
**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 14, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/24 "2008-06-14T00:55:47Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Leelee Sobieski and Helen Hunt. If it weren’t for the age difference, they’d be twins. [/QUOTE] I wish they’d do a movie with Jody Foster. ---
**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 14, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/25 "2008-06-14T01:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] I’ve had a little trouble distinguishing between Charlize Theron and Ashley Judd when their hair’s colored similar. [/QUOTE] [Me too](http://dailydoppel.blogspot.com/2007/09/ashley-judd-charlize-theron.html). ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/26 "2008-06-14T03:29:21Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] [Julia Roberts](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm213032192/nm0000210) and [Monica Potter](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3940851456/nm0005321). [/QUOTE] I would have gone with Monica Potter, Lauren Holly and Hilary Duff. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/27 "2008-06-14T03:53:24Z")
Before she became a super-mega-über-moviestar I kept confusing **Angelina Jolie** with Ashley Judd. Same thing originally with Scarlett Johansen and Laurie Prepon (redheaded hottie from That 70s Show). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/28 "2008-06-14T04:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] [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. [/QUOTE] True dat. Others might prefer the Arnold S. (in his prime) and Charleton H. (also in his prime) matchup. When I see Missy Peregrym, or any of the others, I see an attractive woman, but nothing out of the ordinary. My wife says it’s because I went to a high school full of beautiful women. I disagree, saying it’s our daughters, who are merely pretty, went to a high school where they seem to send scouts to sign future stars for the WB’s teen angst shows, but just the girls. The guys are, at best, average. So unimpressive that one daughter latched onto a relatively cute guy when he was a freshman and she was a junior. It’s Moscow Rules for dating: you grab what you can when you see it because you never know when you will see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/29 "2008-06-14T09:04:18Z")
I think [Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman](http://dailydoppel.blogspot.com/search/label/Keira%20Knightley) look an awful lot alike. Seeing that Keira played Natalie’s double in one of those Star Wars prequels, I suspect others agree with me. I’m still waiting to get in a threesome with those two. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/30 "2008-06-14T14:06:01Z")
Back in the day, I had a lot of trouble telling Joey Lauren Adams apart from Renee Zellweger. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/31 "2008-06-14T14:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=HelloNinja] Back in the day, I had a lot of trouble telling Joey Lauren Adams apart from Renee Zellweger. [/QUOTE] This was pointed out in a similar thread a few years ago. I thought _no way, Joey Lauren Adams is hot, Renee, not so much._ Then I went and looked at pics and by damn, they \*do \*look a lot alike! ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/32 "2008-06-14T15:25:19Z")
Blasphemy!!!11 Joey is sweet and cute, Smellvinegar is an asshole\* and not attractive. \*Just my opinion. No cite. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/33 "2008-06-14T17:13:58Z")
I was thinking that **Nick Nolte** and **Anthony Heald** resembled each other to a great degree. Anthony Heald played the part of ship owner Simon Canton in the movie Deep Rising . ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/34 "2008-06-14T17:39:51Z")
[Johnny Depp and Skeet Ulrich](http://www.kidzworld.com/multimedia/johnny_skeet.gif) ---
**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 14, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/35 "2008-06-14T19:45:00Z")
Should have thought of this right away: [Molly Parker.](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1761058560/nm0662504) [Julianne Nicholson](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1939512576/nm0629855) (especially in the movie _Tully_). ---
**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 14, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/36 "2008-06-14T19:48:09Z")
And some great casting as sisters in _Ever After_: [Drew Barrymore](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1843763456/tt0120631) and [Melanie Lynsky](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1826791168/nm0001491). (Though, come to think of it, they were stepsisters.) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/37 "2008-06-15T01:10:50Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] [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) [/QUOTE] Add [Helena Bonham Carter](http://www.virginmedia.com/images/hot-bonham-carter-280x400.jpg) and you’ll have a pretty convincing trio of sisters. On several occasions while watching a movie with [Geoffrey Rush](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001691/), I find myself wondering what [James Woods](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000249/) was doing in it (especially when Rush is playing an American). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/38 "2008-06-15T01:29:53Z")
[Elizabeth Rohm](http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/248300~Elizabeth-Rohm-Posters.jpg) and [Julia Styles](http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/julia-stiles-the-bourne-ultimatum-uk-premiere-in-leicester-square-1lbLAw.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/39 "2008-06-15T04:26:46Z")
[Ricky Gervais](http://www.pixelitdigital.com/images/ricky.jpg) and [Eddie Izzard](http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/50847742.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A624302C24A1CF06DD6B49E290EC96DE79) I almost killed that other thread with this post… let’s see if it happens again! ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779/40 "2008-06-15T20:53:50Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] I almost killed that other thread with this post… let’s see if it happens again! [/QUOTE] I’ll step in to save the day with [Jerry Doyle](http://www.jerrydoyle.com/) and [Bruce Willis](http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/05/08_bruce_lgl.jpg). Doyle noted it too when Willis was given an award at some ceremony or another (for the Fifth Element probably). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lookalike-actors/452779.md?page=1)