# Related Actresses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788 "2004-01-30T18:37:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![olanv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ec8ea/32.png) [@olanv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/olanv)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788/1 "2004-01-30T18:37:59Z")

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Annabella Sciorra  
Neve Campbell

Maybe it’s nothing at all.  
Maybe it’s publicly known (I couldn’t find it).  
Maybe it’s a case of covering up acting class oligarchies.

To see these two people acting; their physical similarity (they practically look like clones of each other), personality, facial expressions, vocalizations, timbre – these similarities are astounding to me.

Any thoughts, evidence, whatever?

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788/2 "2004-01-31T01:18:22Z")

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Hmmm…

One is Italian and the other one is Dutch/Scotish.

Plus Campbell is three inches taller and they don’t really look alike.

Not related.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788/3 "2004-01-31T01:28:40Z")

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Helen Hunt and Leelee Sobieski.

I know they’re not. But it’s uncanny.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/related-actresses/226788/4 "2004-01-31T02:28:26Z")

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Two that look alike and SOUND remarkably alike: [Sherry Stringfield](http://www.nbc.com/ER/bios/Sherry_Stringfield.html) (Dr. Susan Lewis on ER) and [Peri Gilpin](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004963/) (Roz on Frasier.) They look more alike in person than the still photos suggest. But not related.

Of course, you also have [Natalie Portman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000204/) and [Keira Knightley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461136/), who are so close that the latter has played the former’s decoy.