# Who in pop culture looks like someone you dated or tried to date? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407 "2016-03-27T22:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/41 "2016-03-28T19:02:40Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Avril Lavigne is kind of a normal looking person though, so I think a lot of people have dated women who looked like her. I disagree that Lavigne would be “Stunningly beautiful” - I’ve met her, though she’s not the woman I dated. She was pretty, but pretty in a way that most young women are pretty. Young women usually ARE attractive, after all. True. > [@](#): > > I once bought a drink for, and flirted with, a woman who looked exactly like Alanis Morrisette. The closeness of the resemblance was likely because she was, in fact, Alanis Morrisette. That’s cheating. 😉 > [@](#): > > My wife kind of looks like Janis Joplin if Janis Joplin had been pretty, which I know doesn’t make any sense but you’d understand if you saw her. Janis was pleasant looking and fun, which is all you really need. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/42 "2016-03-28T21:06:25Z")
A couple of ex-GF’s that looked enough like that **Bjork** and **Teri Garr** respectively that people would commonly go “you look so much like…” ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/43 "2016-03-28T21:14:20Z")
When I was first dating my current wife, while I never saw the resemblance, my 3 nieces told me and everyone else that my girlfried looked just like Nicole Kidman. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/44 "2016-03-28T21:39:43Z")
When I was in college I dated a girl who looked a lot like Gabrielle Union : [![](http://dailyman40.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Gabrielle-Union-hot.jpg) ](http://dailyman40.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Gabrielle-Union-hot.jpg) When I was in my twenties I dated a woman who resembled Kate Jackson : [http://www.icelebz.com/celebs/kate\_jackson/images/photo27.jpg](http://www.icelebz.com/celebs/kate_jackson/images/photo27.jpg) The last person I dated reminded me a lot of Peggy Lipton : [![](http://www.jewpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/968r6vc5c2tzc5t6.jpg) ](http://www.jewpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/968r6vc5c2tzc5t6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/45 "2016-03-28T22:02:50Z")
I have never dated anyone who looked like someone famous. I can flip this though, as way back in the 90s, I had a few dates who thought I looked like someone famous. I apparently have a very strong resemblance to Billy Corgan, lead singer for The Smashing Pumpkins. One girl was a huge fan, and we dated for a while until things got weird. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/46 "2016-03-28T23:50:26Z")
I dated an astrophysicist who looked a lot like Art Garfunkel. I look him up on the 'net now and then, as he’s kind of famous in his field. He doesn’t look like Garfunkel anymore; now he looks like Billy Crystal. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/47 "2016-03-29T02:12:41Z")
One of my exes looked a lot like a young Nicole Kidman–very much as she looked in _Dead Calm_, but with blonde hair instead of red. When I first commented on it, she said she had heard that from quite a few people. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/48 "2016-03-29T03:11:33Z")
I once dated a woman 30 years ago who, in retrospect, was a ringer for Kari Byron from Mythbusters. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/49 "2016-03-30T00:43:17Z")
Both a girl I dated in HS and a woman I lived with for several years looked like Joan Osbourne. Edit: my wife of 30 years looks a bit like Joan Blondell. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/50 "2016-03-30T01:28:52Z")
Two that come to mind are one girl I dated reminded me of Alicia Silverstone, especially when she [smiled a certain way](http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/styles/tout_image_612x380/public/i/2014/11/04/Alicia-Silverstone_612x380_0.jpg?itok=oAUW_2F2), and another reminded me of Robin Tunney when she was in [The Craft](http://40.media.tumblr.com/cbcf736d89cb93fbc77876e7a5e11eef/tumblr_nrs0xylsmW1sb79a1o1_500.jpg), not [Empire Records](http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnaov3VHpu1qzjiplo2_1280.png). ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/51 "2016-03-30T01:35:45Z")
Show of hands. Who here is now Facebook stalking old flames as a result of this thread[?](http://i.imgur.com/i1YEL3o.gif) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/52 "2016-03-30T02:29:54Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Show of hands. Who here is now Facebook stalking old flames as a result of this thread[?](http://i.imgur.com/i1YEL3o.gif) Actually, I wouldn’t want to see what they look like 20 to 40 years later. I’d rather remember them as they were. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/53 "2016-03-30T02:47:40Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I dated an astrophysicist who looked a lot like Art Garfunkel. Just thought I’d mention that this is the third time I’ve had that said to me (granted, that’s over a seven year period, but it does seem like more than I should be comfortable with). ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/54 "2016-03-30T05:17:01Z")
My ex looked like slightly overweight [Helen Marnie](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/aa/27/c4/aa27c4e5ac88a3138dc1cb70df2f967d.jpg), while my wife resembles [Jennifer Beals](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hBDiC_aWJc4/Sd3nRRJgZzI/AAAAAAAABYI/PLri6Vbh9IM/s400/JenniferBeals1.jpg) with a straight hair. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/55 "2016-03-30T08:44:22Z")
In the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, there is a character, [Joelle Van Dyne](http://jest.founddrama.net/characters/Joelle/), who resembles my gf in the PGOAT aspect. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/56 "2016-03-30T11:49:00Z")
Not someone I dated, or tried to date (Thank Og), but I had a roommate who looked and sounded _exactly_ like John Rhys Davies, when he was playing Saleh in the Indiana Jones movies. [https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=A0SO8xmuvPtWNvoAkIdXNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTE0Y3BoZmk5BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE3NTdfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=John+Rhys+Davies&fr=&fr2=piv-web#id=72&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjexus.eu%2FStars%2FB-League%25204%2FJohn%2520Rhys-Davies%25202.jpg&action=click](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO8xmuvPtWNvoAkIdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0Y3BoZmk5BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE3NTdfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=John+Rhys+Davies&fr=&fr2=piv-web#id=72&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjexus.eu%2FStars%2FB-League%25204%2FJohn%2520Rhys-Davies%25202.jpg&action=click) I’ve seen recent pictures of them both. They’ve aged differently, and don’t look so much the same anymore. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/57 "2016-03-30T12:08:26Z")
How is it that all the dudes here dated model and starlet lookalikes and I ended up with the likes of Il Duce? (just kidding; I know the answer to that). Anyway, I forgot my favorite ex, who bore a striking resemblance to young [Chris Penn](http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/88038100-chris-penn-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXuBmyF5wkmMvHGiJecV8XfXjg2X0KmvfQ%2Bx8Z4YdCVuON%2F2O%2FuhI7r5siCI5pbhapQ%3D%3D). Jeff McElhaney, I’m looking at you sweetie. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/58 "2016-03-30T13:38:24Z")
The new girl in Top Gear Sabine reminds me greatly of the girlfriend I had in Germany when I was stationed there. I’m Facebook friends with her and now that she is pushing 50 the resemblance isn’t there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/59 "2016-03-30T14:06:53Z")
> [@Moris](#): > > My wife resembles Jennifer Beals with a straight hair. Just one?!? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407/60 "2016-03-30T14:57:08Z")
My wife resembles, and is about the same age as, Tina Fey. Especially when she (my wife) wears her glasses. Which she doesn’t do very often because she thinks most people, including herself, look better when she can’t see them clearly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-pop-culture-looks-like-someone-you-dated-or-tried-to-date/750407.md?page=4)