I was just watching the movie Manic, and noticed that the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt resembles Heath Ledger enough to be his brother. Having just seen Brokeback Mountain, their similarity struck me. Likewise, I know much has been made of the resemblance between Leelee Sobieski and Helen Hunt.
Any other unrelated celebrities who look enough alike to be family? Please provide pictures if you can.
Michael Douglas and Viggo Mortensen seemed so similar in A Perfect Murder that I (who tuned in late) assumed at first that they were playing father and son. Then again, maybe it was just that they hame the same dead, steely eyes and the same raspy little alpha-asshole vocal delivery.
Kelsey Grammar and David Hyde Pierce played brothers on “Frasier”, and they certainly looked like they could have been brothers in real life. To me, at least.
I think my Heath Ledger link didn’t work, so here’s another one.
When I first saw the dePalma remake of Scarface, in 198Whatever, I thought the sister and the girlfriend were being played by the same actress, just switching wigs. It wasn’t until the credits showed me their names (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michelle Pfeiffer) that I felt stupid.
I’m watching the Golden Globes, and Kelly Macdonald really looks like Natascha McElhone.
Sherry Stringfield and Peri Gilpin. Even sound alike.
It’s somewhat obscure but it’s been bugging me the last couple weeks so I looked 'em up.
Noah Danby, who you may have seen recently playing a Jaffa named Cha’ra on Stargate SG-1, looks to me like the younger brother of Patrick Kilpatrick, who you’ve probably seen in lots of TV shows & movies over the years.
Denis Leary and Willem Dafoe.
Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Much Ado About Nothing and currently playing in House, M.D.) has always looked like Jim Carrey’s younger brother to me.
Skeet Ulrich is a poor but acceptable Johnny Depp, singer Nelly Furtado looks a lot like Courteney Cox-Arquette, too.
One of the best bits of casting ever was when Julia Roberts and Kyra Sedgwick played sisters in Something to Talk About.
Julia Roberts and Kyra Sedgwick? Nah. Howsabout Julia Roberts and Monica Potter?
Yeah, I didn’t know her but I can certainly see the resemblance. Check out this one , wow!
I think there was a thread a few months back about Jeff Daniels, Bill Pullman and about 4 other guys that all seemed related, easily confued, etc.
Back in the 90s, I always got Thomas Haden Church mized up with… some guy whose name I’ve forgotten. Anyone have any idea who I mean?
Last week when my wife and I watched the 1988 version of “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” for the first time, I pointed out to her that Patrick (Doctor Who #2) Troughton was playing the Professor. Damn, when the credits rolled, lo and behold, it was not Troughton, but rather… some guy whose name I’ve forgotten.
But, like Beavis and Butthead, any time I see a stereotypical nerdy teen male with short plastered down hair and glasses, I say, "Hey, it’s Ernie from “My Three Sons.”
Usually I mix up the names of actors when the names are similar, especially if they use three names. Is that “Mary Stuart Elizabeth Antonio Banderas?”
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Helen Hunt and Leelee Sobieski are so close it’s freaking me out.
I always thought that Robert Vaughn should play Matt LeBlanc’s father.
Jeri Ryan & Jenna Elfman could be sisters.
No he should play Kyle McLaughlin’s father.
I was always afraid that if I ever got to go to bed with Hilary Swank I’d wake up next to Matt Damon.
