The Actor is WAY better looking than the real life person being portrayed in the film

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In most cases, except perhaps in the case of a bio-film about someone specifically known for good looks, the actors in bio-films tend to be better looking than the real life people they are portraying. After all, they are actors. It’s a self-selecting profession favoring folks who are at least presentable.

So, I’m not looking for a list of actors who are better looking than the person they are portraying. That would cover nearly every actor in every bio-pic ever:[ul]
[li]Will Smith is better looking than Muhammad Ali, but not by much. Ali was actually a pretty handsome man.[/li][li]Jim Carry is better looking than Andy Kaufman, but really not by much.[/li][/ul]These are examples that would NOT COUNT for the purposes of this Thread.

No, what I am looking for is a list of actors who are WAY better looking than the person they are portraying.

Thread inspired by a photo that I saw of Bonnie and Clyde on the front page of USA Today yesterday. I looked at the photo and thought, “Wow, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were SO MUCH better looking than Bonnie and Clyde!”.

So, to start the ball rolling, I’ll offer:[ul]
[li]The aformentioned Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as being WAY better looking than Bonnie and Clyde.[/li][li]Jeffrey Wright was WAY better looking than Jean-Michel Basquiat.[/li][/ul]

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Charlize Theron is WAY better looking than Aileen Wuornos. Probably a bit outside of what you had in mind, I realize, but I’ll bet a dollar that’s the widest range between homely and jaw droppingly beautiful you’re gonna get.

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I was going to say Russell Crowe as John Nash but it turns out the young John Nash (third picture down) wasn’t half bad looking.

I hope I don’t offend anyone by saying that I think June Carter Cash, even in youth, was a homely woman on the outside. You certainly couldn’t say the same of Reese Witherspoon.

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Angeline Jolie is far better looking than Christine Collins, the woman she portrayed in Changeling. I found Angie’s huge, bright red lips quite distracting in that movie, I have to say.

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Similarly, Nicole Kidman vs Virginia Woolf. They did a good job of uglifying Nicole.

I am quite shocked that the proposed movie of Shantaram is to star Johnny Depp as Gregory david Roberts, particularly as part of his emotional journey in the book is based on the fact that he is “an ugly man”.

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Garbo - Queen Christina

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Natalie Portman portrayed Anne Frank on Broadway.

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Robert Walker played Jerome Kern.

Daniel Hugh Kelly played Steven Sohmer, then-husband of soap star Deidre Hall, in a biopic he produced on Hall.

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Salma Hayek.
Frida Kahlo.

Kahlo wasn’t hideous. But Hayyyyyyek.

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Denzel Washington is much better looking than Frank Lucas

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George Hamilton as Evel Kneivel

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Mark Harmon is much better looking than Ted Bundy

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Julia Roberts is way better-looking than Erin Brockovich.

Oh, and Bob Woodward didn’t look anything like Robert Redford.

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Ray Liotta looks much better than Henry Hill in Goodfellas.

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Similarly, Lorraine Bracco looked better than Hill’s actual wife, Karen.

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Anne Frank was cute as hell. You have to remember that, in the pictures which commonly circulate around, she was on a starvation diet.

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James Caan was waaaay better looking than songwriter/impresario Billy Rose, whom he played in “Funny Lady.”

Julie Andrews was FAR prettier and more feminine than the real Maria von Trapp.

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Gary Cooper.Alvin York.

Brad Pitt. Jesse James.

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Emily Blunt as young Queen Victoria.

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Greer Garson was a lot better looking than Marie Curie.