# What celeb do people say you look like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912 "2013-07-30T15:51:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/81 "2013-07-31T16:33:44Z")
I used to be a dead ringer for Henry Rollins. I was stopped many times by people who thought I was him. My voice is similar to his, too, though most people were convinced when I showed them that my arms aren’t covered in tattoos. It stopped when I started cutting my hair really short (an 1/8th of an inch short). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/82 "2013-07-31T16:36:53Z")
Without the goatee, Sean Penn and sometimes Paul Benedict. With the goatee, Shaggy from Scooby Doo! Shaggy like, rocks, man! ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/83 "2013-07-31T18:28:58Z")
In the seventies someone told me I looked like Stella Stevens. I googled a young picture of her and can see a resemblance. But not enough to fuss about. She must have had some plastic surgery at some point because her current photos bear no resemblance at all. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/84 "2013-07-31T19:45:33Z")
Apparently I resemble a lot of people - one woman even stopped me on my way to lunch one day because she thought I was her fiance - but no celebrities. I used to work with a woman whose son bore a strong resemblance to Howard Stern. Last time I saw him, the guy had got a haircut and didn’t look like Howeird anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/85 "2013-07-31T21:08:27Z")
People have said that with my bandana on and lighting from above, I look like a young Axl Rose. I’m female though so it’s gotta be compared to a clean-shaven picture. It’s not that close a resemblance - I have bigger eyes and fuller cheeks, but it’s serviceable enough. Yes, my gender is confusing to some strangers. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/86 "2013-07-31T21:23:12Z")
I’ve taken some pictures where I look like Bill Gates. Oddly enough, I don’t look like him. I just photograph badly. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/87 "2013-07-31T22:14:27Z")
Julianne Moore. I can actually see it, but it’s really only pronounced when my hair is red, which is not now. But we have a similar face shape, nose and the freckles. Just confused the hell out of my 18 month old, who saw all the pictures I was googling of Julianne and started pointing at them and saying Mummy. My 3 yr old agrees, so 2 out of 2 children is a clear data point! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/88 "2013-07-31T23:04:59Z")
> [@KaylaLynn](#): > > You could post a pic and we could probably come up with someone. I’m not falling for that trick. ---
**Author:** ![winneee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a88e4f/32.png) [@winneee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winneee)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/89 "2013-07-31T23:22:50Z")
Pre-rhinoplasty: Sarah Jessica Parker. ALL THE TIME. It drove me nuts (but that’s not why I had a nose job). Post: Diane Lane & Melissa Gilbert (half pint). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/90 "2013-07-31T23:40:44Z")
When I was very thin, Ray Liotta. Now, maybe Greg Grunberg? (If I’m Very lucky…) (Although there were a couple people for a while who though I looked an awful lot like an older Harry Potter.) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/91 "2013-07-31T23:44:13Z")
> [@destineal](#): > > Well, that completely changes my mental image of you. My brain has been adding an extra s and reading your username as Ms Smith537 this whole time. … ohhhhh ---
**Author:** ![JawiKunn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JawiKunn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JawiKunn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/92 "2013-07-31T23:45:30Z")
Sadly, I’ve been told I look like Balky from Perfect Strangers [![](http://www.90smovies.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/balki-bartokomous.jpg) ](http://www.90smovies.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/balki-bartokomous.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 31, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/93 "2013-07-31T23:47:17Z")
In my younger and thinner days I was once told I look like John Lennon. By Mark Chapman. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/94 "2013-08-01T00:01:03Z")
Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins Bruce Willis Kurtwood Smith from That 70s Show Isaac Slade from the Fray Probably sensing a trend there? Billy Corgan, but older and less brooding is probably the best match, but I’ll never actually be mistaken for any of those guys. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/95 "2013-08-01T00:21:19Z")
People keep saying that they know somebody who looks like me, but I finally found one who, I have to agree, I resemble. Paul Szep, onetime editorial cartoonist for _the Biston Globe_. He was the subject of one of those “Dewar’s Profiles” ads, and somebody cut it out, taking care also to remove the name, and stuck it on my laboratory door when I was in grad school. People were asking me for weeks how I got a whiskey ad about me. Years later, my wife mistook him for me as we walked around Boston’s _First Night_ celebration. He was wearing the same winter coat as me. Here’s his picture. His hair’s a little wilder, and he’s more Jay Leno-ish in his chin, but, damn, he looks similar to me: [http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=A0PDoX22qflRYl0AWOKJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTFydDRpY2JhBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM4NGNjMWNmNDI2YjI1YmVkMmI1NjliNDA3Yzk4NzA4ZARncG9zAzIy?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3D%2522Paul%2BSzep%2522%26fr%3Dyfp-t-900%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D22&w=200&h=262&imgurl=www.cathedral100yearsreunion.ca%2Fuploads%2F3%2F0%2F7%2F0%2F3070408%2Fszep.gif&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cathedral100yearsreunion.ca%2Falumni-biographies2.html&size=21KB&name=\paul+szep+\<%2Fb\>class+of+1957+\paul+szep+\<%2Fb\>received+the+pulitzer&p="Paul+Szep"&oid=84cc1cf426b25bed2b569b407c98708d&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-900&tt=\paul+szep+\<%2Fb\>class+of+1957+\paul+szep+\<%2Fb\>received+the+pulitzer&b=0&ni=96&no=22&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11vqsh0fn&sigb=13eqsubl9&sigi=120tdm1q8&.crumb=L2MInUhYD2P&fr=yfp-t-900](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoX22qflRYl0AWOKJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTFydDRpY2JhBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM4NGNjMWNmNDI2YjI1YmVkMmI1NjliNDA3Yzk4NzA4ZARncG9zAzIy?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3D%2522Paul%2BSzep%2522%26fr%3Dyfp-t-900%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D22&w=200&h=262&imgurl=www.cathedral100yearsreunion.ca%2Fuploads%2F3%2F0%2F7%2F0%2F3070408%2Fszep.gif&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cathedral100yearsreunion.ca%2Falumni-biographies2.html&size=21KB&name=%3Cb%3Epaul+szep+%3C%2Fb%3Eclass+of+1957+%3Cb%3Epaul+szep+%3C%2Fb%3Ereceived+the+pulitzer&p=%22Paul+Szep%22&oid=84cc1cf426b25bed2b569b407c98708d&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-900&tt=%3Cb%3Epaul+szep+%3C%2Fb%3Eclass+of+1957+%3Cb%3Epaul+szep+%3C%2Fb%3Ereceived+the+pulitzer&b=0&ni=96&no=22&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11vqsh0fn&sigb=13eqsubl9&sigi=120tdm1q8&.crumb=L2MInUhYD2P&fr=yfp-t-900) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/96 "2013-08-01T02:09:04Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Kurtwood Smith from That 70s Show Could be worse; could’ve been Kurtwood Smith [from _Star Trek IV_](http://cdn-media.hollywood.com/images/638x425/1823079.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/97 "2013-08-01T02:33:33Z")
Okay, I’ll link to my pic. Who do _you_ think I look like (if anyone)? [Link.](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/1544a.html) ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/98 "2013-08-01T02:37:02Z")
Not a response to above, but some people tell me I look like Lisa Kudrow. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/99 "2013-08-01T03:51:12Z")
Nowadays, I get told I look like Rainn Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![KaylaLynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@KaylaLynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KaylaLynn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912/100 "2013-08-01T04:40:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Okay, I’ll link to my pic. Who do _you_ think I look like (if anyone)? [Link.](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/1544a.html) I don’t know, but you were super-hot in '92! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celeb-do-people-say-you-look-like/664912.md?page=6)