# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/41 "2006-01-17T19:08:46Z")
[Grandfather,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/) [father,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005221/) [grandson.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005227/) The chosen pictures may not best represent this, but I could easily buy these three as a family. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/42 "2006-01-17T19:10:15Z")
Zach Braff (Scrubs) looks like he could be the brother of that guy from _Ed_. Which is why they played brothers on _Scrubs_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/43 "2006-01-17T19:29:44Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Zach Braff (Scrubs) looks like he could be the brother of that guy from _Ed_. Which is why they played brothers on _Scrubs_. Sometimes the obvious casting actually happens. Like when Matthew McConnaghy(?) and Woody Harrelson played brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/44 "2006-01-17T19:32:14Z")
Every time I see X-Man I keep thinking that Hugh Jackman reminds me of a young Clint Eastwood. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/45 "2006-01-17T19:44:46Z")
[Julia Stiles](http://www.absolutely.net/stiles/index.jpg) and [Erika Christensen](http://www.boottotheskull.com/images/ErikaChristensen.jpg) They could be twins. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/46 "2006-01-17T20:05:49Z")
I’m at work so I can’t use the image search function, but I’ve always thought Tim Roth and Jake Weber looked like brothers. If they were, Jake would be the good one and Tim the troubled one who knocked up the minister’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/47 "2006-01-17T20:06:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Julia Stiles](http://www.absolutely.net/stiles/index.jpg) > > and > > [Erika Christensen](http://www.boottotheskull.com/images/ErikaChristensen.jpg) > > They could be twins. I always confuse those two. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/48 "2006-01-17T20:07:03Z")
[father](http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Dennis%20Haysbert.jpg) [son](http://images.hollywood.com/images/4_422002.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/49 "2006-01-17T20:09:37Z")
> [@Stainz](#): > > Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley could be sisters. That’s kinda why Kneightley is famous. First I ever saw her was in _The Phantom Menace_, when she played Portman’s decoy. Before Harrison Ford started showing his age, I thought Dennis Quaid could be his older, drunker brother. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/50 "2006-01-17T20:20:21Z")
[Tim Allen](http://www.nndb.com/people/279/000025204/) and [Andy Dick](http://www.nndb.com/people/601/000022535/) which is doubly odd when you consider Tim Allen’s real last name is Dick, and that Andy was adopted, and his adoptive father’s name is Allen Dick. /cue Twilight Zone music ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/51 "2006-01-17T21:19:46Z")
[Tommy Lee Jones](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0120912/Ss/0120912/MIBII-246.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Jones,%20Tommy%20Lee) and [Mandy Patinkin](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0452046/Ss/0452046/D0616.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Patinkin,%20Mandy). ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/52 "2006-01-17T21:37:17Z")
So what does all this tell us? That fitting a certain mold with your looks will carry you a long way towards fortune and fame. Or, it’s no surprise that famous people look like each other–it’s having those looks that makes them famous. With variations, of course. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/53 "2006-01-17T21:56:59Z")
Neil Young, Garrison Keillor & Dan Ackroyd And for a while I confused Hugh Grant with Richard E. Grant, and once I realized they were two different people, I then thought they were brothers ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/54 "2006-01-17T22:11:58Z")
Zack Braff and David Duchovny Jimmy Kimmel and Al Gore Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/55 "2006-01-17T22:19:30Z")
Aishwarya Rai looks like a young, thin, Indian Kirstie Alley ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/56 "2006-01-18T01:26:43Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Zach Braff (Scrubs) looks like he could be the brother of that guy from _Ed_. Which is why they played brothers on _Scrubs_. They also pointed out in an episode of “Ed” that Tom Cavanaugh kinda looks like Jon Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/57 "2006-01-18T02:03:15Z")
I was going to post Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, just to see the blurb on IMDB saying that Emilio is his son… :smack: (And that Sheen is just a stage name!) So instead I’ll have to go with [Mark Wahlberg](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3329/Events/3329/MarkWahlbe_Mazur_5448531_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Wahlberg,%20Mark%20(I)) and [Matt Damon](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0349903/Ss/0349903/O12D-3799.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Damon,%20Matt) ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/58 "2006-01-18T03:48:55Z")
I had a whole group of celebrity savy people thinking that [Sandra Bullock](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0191754/Ss/0191754/10?path=pgallery&path_key=Bullock,%20Sandra) was [George Hamilton](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001313/)’s daughter. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/59 "2006-01-18T03:52:11Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > So instead I’ll have to go with [Mark Wahlberg](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3329/Events/3329/MarkWahlbe_Mazur_5448531_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Wahlberg,%20Mark%20(I)) and [Matt Damon](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0349903/Ss/0349903/O12D-3799.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Damon,%20Matt) I used to confuse those two all the time, and have embarrassed myself here on the SDMB because of it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/60 "2006-01-18T04:53:48Z")
I thought of another one. [Ralph Fiennes](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000146/) looks so much like [Liam Neeson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000553/) it’s scary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291.md?page=4)