# What actor/actress plays you in your "based on true life" movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735 "2012-02-13T19:33:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/1 "2012-02-13T19:33:19Z")
They are making some awesome event that happened in your life into a movie. They need to cast you and your SO. They ask for your opinion. Physically, there are no perfect matches in Hollywood, but the closest is [Ryan Howard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Howard_(The_Office)). In terms of personality though, Seth Green as [Oz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)) was nearly a perfect match. As for Ms. Hermit, she would be played by [Ellen Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Page). Her personality match is more like Willow (Alyson Hannigan), of course! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/2 "2012-02-13T19:47:20Z")
I’ve been told by a couple of people that i look a bit like Ewan McGregor. I guess i could see a small resemblance, but he’s no dead ringer. He’s about my age, so that would help a bit. A couple of guys at my gym also told me i look like Russell Crowe, but i really don’t see that at all. I think they probably heard my Australian accent and made the connection that way, rather than from how i actually look. Not really sure who’d play my wife. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/3 "2012-02-13T20:19:53Z")
[Gabby Hayes.](http://www.kids-n-cowboys.com/images/gabby1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/4 "2012-02-13T20:28:15Z")
That is so weird. I was thinking of posting this exact same topic just last night. We were watching a movie in which the actress who should play me was starring and I brought up this idea. So the part of Dogzilla will be played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. Should she turn down the role, then Mary-Louise Parker will be offered the role. My SO will be played by Eminem. Should Eminem be unavailable or uninterested, Brad Pitt will be offered the role, but only if he is able to convincingly dial back his enormous ego. (I know, there’s something about Eminem that seems less narcissistic to me, although I can acknowledge that he’s no slouch in the I’m The Shit attitude.) The dogs will play themselves. I have no idea who to cast as my sister because she’s recently lost 160 pounds and there really isn’t an actress who looks like her now. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/5 "2012-02-13T20:33:13Z")
I’ve been told I look like Jennifer Jason Leigh but I think I’d rather have Sandra Bullock play the part. Hubby: Antonio Banderas. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/6 "2012-02-13T20:35:40Z")
[This](http://fitnessanddefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ryan-reynolds-magazine-shootout.jpg) guy, obviously. (Yeah, I wish. Sadly, the reality is more like [this](http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/4575000/ngbbs4229e1329ed86.jpg) guy.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/7 "2012-02-13T20:38:14Z")
When I was young and fairly thin, so back in the early 90’s I used to get told I looked a lot like Nicole Kidman. You know with the light reddish blonde really curly hair, before she became incredibly thin. I can’t think of any actresses who are young enough to play my life story who look like me. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/8 "2012-02-13T20:49:28Z")
If we cast the role for when I was a tiny little thing, I’d say Toni Collette because on one hand she cleans up really nice and on the other, she can he incredibly plain. For the spouse when he was heavier, I’d pick Pruitt Taylor Vince, as long as he keeps the goatee. That about sums us up. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/9 "2012-02-13T20:55:43Z")
For me they’d have to take the body of the guy who played Newman on Seinfeld, and shove the personalities of Dharma from Dharma and Greg, Hyde from That 70s show, and Zach from Bones to get someone close to me. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/10 "2012-02-13T21:46:26Z")
Me: Jonathan Togo from CSI: Miami (he’s more attractive, but you always cast up, right?) My wife: either Sandra Bullock or Bridget Fonda (my wife has them beat, tbh.) ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/11 "2012-02-13T22:00:13Z")
On a good day, Daphne Zuniga, AKA Princess Vespa from Spaceballs. [http://www.daphnezuniga.net/](http://www.daphnezuniga.net/) ---
**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:** [February 13, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/12 "2012-02-13T22:18:49Z")
No actor I know of looks like me, but I’d cast Crispin Glover. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/13 "2012-02-13T23:25:57Z")
I have been told it would be Nicolas Cage… on a bad day ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/14 "2012-02-13T23:41:46Z")
I seem to recall another thread like this, but couldn’t find it in a search. I’d say, physically, I’m closest to (a fat) Lou Diamond Phillips in looks (if you see him now that he’s old and starting to gray), though I have green eyes. I’d pick Johnny Depp to play me (young and fit of course), if it were my choice. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/15 "2012-02-13T23:45:00Z")
Jack Black, or Vin Diesel. Both capture my essence. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/16 "2012-02-14T00:32:03Z")
If we are going for realism I’d be played by Kathy Bates. I don’t have an SO so that won’t be an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/17 "2012-02-14T00:40:44Z")
On appearance alone, [Stelio Savante](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelio_savante) would be perfect. His ethnic background is even almost exactly the same as mine. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/18 "2012-02-14T00:41:20Z")
Face-wise, [Fred Savage](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000625/) is a decent match. I’ve got a bigger nose, but I’m probably in better shape than him. My wife looks a bit like [Lucy Liu](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005154/). ---
**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:** [February 14, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/19 "2012-02-14T01:06:40Z")
Wow. Fred Savage and Lucy Liu. Now there’s a movie. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/20 "2012-02-14T04:15:46Z")
Bill Pullman. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735.md?page=2)