# Separated at Birth-- Celebrities with an odd resemblance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001 "2007-02-05T23:35:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/141 "2007-08-02T21:21:36Z")
[This](http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/griffin.asp) guy and Peter Griffin 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 2, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/142 "2007-08-02T21:24:39Z")
[Jan Smither and Marcia Strassman (Mrs. Kotter)](http://www.marcia-strassman.com/notsameperson.jpg). Out of character they don’t look _that_ much alike but they both played mousy brunettes with glasses in different 70s sitcoms, so I tended to mix them up… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/143 "2007-08-13T14:34:02Z")
Comic and 70s era Hollywood Squares regular Marty Allen [http://www.martyallen.net/KK\_KM5.JPG](http://www.martyallen.net/KK_KM5.JPG) and those little troll dolls [http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/troll.jpg](http://learning.cc.hccs.edu/Members/cschweitzer/images/troll.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/144 "2007-08-25T17:22:30Z")
Christian Bale [http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/christian\_bale/thumbnails/tn2\_christian\_bale\_2.jpg](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/christian_bale/thumbnails/tn2_christian_bale_2.jpg) James Brolin [![](https://amityvillehorror.tripod.com/GeorgetheMadman.jpg) ](https://amityvillehorror.tripod.com/GeorgetheMadman.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/145 "2007-08-25T21:22:15Z")
I give you Presidential semi-candidate [Fred](http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/POLITICS/04/06/schneider.too.late/vert.thompson.gi.jpg) [Thompson](http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/11/images/large/BSecti_3bfurn0_1608352.jpg) and Orioles owner [Peter](http://www.hellenism.net/images/famous/angelos.jpg) [Angelos](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/05/23/PH2005052301358.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/146 "2007-08-25T21:28:50Z")
Wow I can’t believe no one mentioned [Aaron Eckhart](http://www.filmfestivals.com/images/tiff2005galery/images/Aaron%20Eckhart.jpg) and [Viggo Mortensen](http://www.123celebs.net/v/viggo-mortensen/viggo-mortensen.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/147 "2007-08-25T21:48:30Z")
[Madeline Albright](http://www.king-george.biz/images/madeline_albright.jpg) and [Al Lewis](http://officialbrotherjude.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/674921922_l.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/148 "2007-08-26T01:10:34Z")
[James Randi and Grumpy](http://hidebehind.com/C4E0AC) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/149 "2007-10-01T02:30:53Z")
[Russell Crowe](http://www.maximumcrowe.net/images3/young3.jpg) and 50s rocker [Eddie Cochran](http://www.eddie-cochran.info/IMAGES/Index_files/A1_3.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/150 "2007-10-04T01:07:08Z")
Rapper/Actor Will Smith [http://www.aolcdn.com/ch\_kids/will-smith-400a314.jpg](http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_kids/will-smith-400a314.jpg) and Webcomic Gene Catlow [http://www.voyd.com/ia/dolinsky\_files/image024.gif](http://www.voyd.com/ia/dolinsky_files/image024.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/151 "2007-11-12T03:01:12Z")
English actress [Samantha Morton](http://www.vh1.com/sitewide/flipbooks/img/movies/people/m/morton_samantha/2866509_10.jpg) (Control, The Libertine, Minority Report, Sweet and Lowdown) and English actress [Emily Watson](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/e/emily_watson/thumbnails/tn2_emily_watson_1.jpg) (Breaking the Waves, Red Dragon, Gosford Park, The Proposition). ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/152 "2007-11-12T03:56:48Z")
USA hockey great[Mike Modano](http://www.ericmcerlain.com/offwingopinion/archives/Images/mike-modano-113006.JPG) and Napoleon Dynamite himself,[Jon Heder](http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/film_images/just_like_heaven_righteous_Jon_Heder.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/153 "2007-11-14T15:28:18Z")
Traditional Irish folk singer Tommy Makem [http://dynimg.rte.ie/0000f9ea10dr.jpg](http://dynimg.rte.ie/0000f9ea10dr.jpg) and Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes [![](http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%2041%203-27-5.jpg) ](http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%2041%203-27-5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/154 "2007-11-14T15:54:49Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Straight] Traditional Irish folk singer Tommy Makem [http://dynimg.rte.ie/0000f9ea10dr.jpg](http://dynimg.rte.ie/0000f9ea10dr.jpg) and Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes [![](http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%2041%203-27-5.jpg) ](http://www.uncleodiescollectibles.com/img_lib/Planet%20of%20the%20Apes%2041%203-27-5.jpg) [/QUOTE] Uncanny! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/155 "2007-11-15T22:14:51Z")
The young \*\*David Hemmings \*\* (circa _Blow-Up_, before he blew up in middle age) looked like a cross between \*\*Oskar Werner \*\* (_Fahrenheit 451_) and **Richard Burton**. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/156 "2007-11-15T22:47:32Z")
[Andy Roddick](http://www.tennisserver.com/lines/images/lines_05_08_09/Roddick.Trophy.jpg) and [Sean William Scott](http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/seann-william-scott1.jpg) (Stifler). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/157 "2007-12-19T20:25:54Z")
Jennifer Morrison ( **House** ) and Ginnifer Goodwin ( **Big Love** ). ---
**Author:** ![ShakWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@ShakWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakWave)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/158 "2007-12-19T21:21:54Z")
How about Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and actor Will Farrell? [Link](http://www.kidzworld.com/multimedia/will_chadAw.jpg) This site has more examples of celebrities separated at birth. Psst, wanna hear something funny? Chad’s middle name is Gaylord 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/159 "2007-12-20T02:56:23Z")
[Anthony Zerbe](http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Anthony&actor_last=Zerbe) and [Tyne Daly](http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/dalytyne/dalytyne.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_Tama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@Grey\_Tama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_Tama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001/160 "2007-12-20T07:52:02Z")
UK actresses [Samantha Janus](http://uktv.co.uk/images/standarditem/L1/529421_L1.jpg) and [Sarah Alexander](http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/4918/girlsseries3640bx9.jpg) (in the middle) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/separated-at-birth-celebrities-with-an-odd-resemblance/391001.md?page=9)