# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/41 "2012-02-16T21:04:50Z")
For me, at least adult me, [Vincent D’Onofrio.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000352/) First time I saw him I said to my wife “My God, that’s me… only much better looking!” For the Mrs.: [Amber Benson.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072435/) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/42 "2012-02-16T21:22:49Z")
[Philip Seymour Hoffman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman) … unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/43 "2012-02-16T21:28:03Z")
He looks nothing like me, but Ed Norton I think has the talent to play quirky, complicated me, and that’s much more important than looking like me. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/44 "2012-02-16T22:12:09Z")
Younger me: Christopher Reeves Present Me: Fess Parker ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/45 "2012-02-16T22:40:01Z")
Bad news: the actor who probably most closely resembles me is Seth Rogen. Worse news: he’d have to be willing to let his looks go for the part. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/46 "2012-02-16T22:45:03Z")
Charlie Sheen, if he’s sober. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/47 "2012-02-16T22:45:05Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Younger me: Christopher Reeves > Present Me: Fess Parker The younger you is dead? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/48 "2012-02-17T04:02:42Z")
For a little while, a few people suggested I resembled Martin Short. I think the movie dies in pre-production… ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/49 "2012-02-17T15:13:32Z")
I’d pick [Elisabeth Moss](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Ud5&sa=X&pwst=1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=879&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=FF7sCezMUohHEM:&imgrefurl=http://www.aoltv.com/2009/07/21/mad-men-star-elisabeth-moss-on-her-emmy-nomination-and-marryin/&docid=pSkoxpukKMc_jM&imgurl=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2009/07/elisabethmoss200-072109.jpg&w=200&h=225&ei=C2o-T9PyKePb0QHLiJzaBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=883&vpy=402&dur=75&hovh=180&hovw=160&tx=100&ty=109&sig=117734007002018662698&page=1&tbnh=161&tbnw=129&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=0CJ0BEK0DMBU) from _Mad Men_. She doesn’t really look like me, but a lot of her mannerisms as Peggy remind me of myself. I’m thinking more of the early Peggy, like seasons 1 and 2, when she was more shy and insecure, and still trying to fit in. Based on looks alone, I guess I’d pick [Alison Brie](http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=IFQ&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=879&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=9aIcZhmdY6OS-M:&imgrefurl=http://screencrave.com/2011-03-02/alison-brie-joins-five-year-engagement-with-emily-blunt-and-jason-segel/&docid=2uKj_UGCXMZlWM&imgurl=http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Alison-Brie-3-2-11-kc.jpg&w=570&h=355&ei=LWk-T62-Bqnm0QGcq626Bw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=687&vpy=365&dur=5317&hovh=177&hovw=285&tx=207&ty=137&sig=117734007002018662698&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=189&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=0CH0QrQMwDA) (from _Community_ and also, coincidentally, _Mad Men_) just because I’ve been told that I look like her. I guess there’s a vague resemblance - but only from the neck up. They’d have to bind her chest to make her body more like mine, I’m afraid. As for my husband, I’m having a hard time coming up with someone. Maybe Phillip Seymour Hoffman, but even that’s a big stretch, and he’d have to cut his hair shorter and dye it. And do a convincing British accent. Wait a minute, **Sampiro** and **The Hamster King** , neither of you are my husband, are you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/50 "2012-02-17T18:26:55Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Younger me: Christopher Reeves > Present Me: Fess Parker The joke’s on you-so is the older me! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Cheech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Mister\_Cheech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Cheech)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735/51 "2012-02-17T19:01:07Z")
Simon Pegg. He’s far funnier than I am but a lot of people say I look like him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-actor-actress-plays-you-in-your-based-on-true-life-movie/612735.md?page=2)