# Unrelated actors that look like family **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291 "2006-01-17T01:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/1 "2006-01-17T01:20:48Z")
I was just watching the movie _Manic_, and noticed that the actor [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/ROYALSandCELEBS2/U.S.%20actor%20Joseph%20Gordon-Levitt%20adjusts%20his%20tie.jpg) resembles [Heath Ledger](http://www.celebrities.pl/heath_ledger/heath3.jpg) 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](http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/d/d06650ee1d.jpg) and [Helen Hunt](http://www.celebrities.pl/helen_hunt/helen6.jpg). Any other unrelated celebrities who look enough alike to be family? Please provide pictures if you can. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/2 "2006-01-17T01:27:52Z")
[Tommy Lee Jones](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/men_in_black/tommy_lee_jones/sidelight.jpg) and [Josh Hartnett](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/L0nd0ninPink/Josh-Hartnett-192x236.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/3 "2006-01-17T01:50:18Z")
[Michael Douglas and Viggo Mortensen](http://www.dvdreview.com/assets/images/PMurder5.JPG) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/4 "2006-01-17T01:53:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/5 "2006-01-17T02:02:23Z")
I think my Heath Ledger link didn’t work, so here’s [another one.](http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Heath-Ledger-Posters_i275102_.htm) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/6 "2006-01-17T02:06:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/7 "2006-01-17T02:20:30Z")
I’m watching the Golden Globes, and [Kelly Macdonald](http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/xp/wenn/p/large_kellymacdonald1906.jpg) really looks like [Natascha McElhone.](http://www.leninimports.com/natascha_mcelhone_gallery_10.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/8 "2006-01-17T02:26:07Z")
Sherry Stringfield and Peri Gilpin. Even sound alike. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/9 "2006-01-17T02:47:15Z")
It’s somewhat obscure but it’s been bugging me the last couple weeks so I looked 'em up. [Noah Danby](http://www.noahdanby.com/), 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](http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Patrick%20Kilpatrick&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi), who you’ve probably seen in lots of TV shows & movies over the years. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/10 "2006-01-17T02:59:18Z")
Denis Leary and Willem Dafoe. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/11 "2006-01-17T03:16:33Z")
[Robert Sean Leonard](http://us.ent4.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/fox/house_photos/robert_sean_leonard/house.jpg) (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](http://www.terra.com/addon/img/ocio/19ceef5nelly_furtado2_300x241.jpgp.jpg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/12 "2006-01-17T03:23:41Z")
Julia Roberts and Kyra Sedgwick? Nah. Howsabout Julia Roberts and Monica Potter? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/13 "2006-01-17T03:50:04Z")
Yeah, I didn’t know her but I can certainly see the resemblance. Check out this [one](http://www.allfansites.com/actresses/Monica%20Potter/tn%20Monica%20Potter.jpg) , wow! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/14 "2006-01-17T03:54:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/15 "2006-01-17T04:08:27Z")
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?” Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/16 "2006-01-17T04:17:33Z")
[Helen Hunt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000166/) and [Leelee Sobieski](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005447/) are so close it’s freaking me out. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/17 "2006-01-17T06:36:01Z")
I always thought that [Robert Vaughn](http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/movie/NA/Previews/Plans-44740.jpg) should play [Matt LeBlanc’s](http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/0301/MLeBlanc_150x218.jpg) father. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/18 "2006-01-17T13:10:03Z")
Jeri Ryan & Jenna Elfman could be sisters. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/19 "2006-01-17T13:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I always thought that Robert Vaughn should play Matt LeBlanc’s father. No he should play Kyle McLaughlin’s father. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/20 "2006-01-17T13:18:16Z")
I was always afraid that if I ever got to go to bed with [Hilary Swank](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/4067/Events/4067/HilarySwan_Grani_7058557_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Swank,%20Hilary) I’d wake up next to [Matt Damon](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3425/MattDamon_Devan_5649494_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Damon,%20Matt&seq=21). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291.md?page=2)