# Whoa - Apparently I look like Keanu Reeves **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946 "2006-03-03T19:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/41 "2006-03-04T01:07:53Z")
Peter Gabriel - 63% August Strindberg - 57% Jason Priestley - 56% Jesse McCartney - 53% Gael Garcia Bernal - 52% Camilla Parker Bowles - 50% Orlando Bloom - 49% Heath Ledger - 48% Robin Wright Penn - 47% Oh, how I laughed. I agree with one thing - I do look about as much as Camilla Parker Bowles as I do Orlando Bloom. That amount being zero. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/42 "2006-03-04T01:14:00Z")
I decided to try it with my brother’s picture … and I got all female matches! Rachel Leigh Cook, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Anna Kournikova and Kirsten Dunst. The fact that my brother has a mustache and a goatee in the picture makes the comparison that much funnier. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/43 "2006-03-04T01:27:36Z")
I tried several photos of myself, and I’m convinced it is trying to match facial expressions more than facial resemblance. I uploaded a picture with a little half-smile and got a dozen celebrity photos with a matching smile. I uploaded a frowning photo and got a dozen frowners. I uploaded one where I was looking up at the camera and smirking and got a dozen coquettish photos of starlets looking up at the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/44 "2006-03-04T03:01:17Z")
I agree - I did the same thing. They match expressions more than anything. It’s very cool though! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/45 "2006-03-04T03:09:41Z")
Ah yes. I started a thread on that site awhile back (too lazy to look for link). Endless fun. I always had a sneaking suspicion about [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Pic3.jpg). I was right. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/46 "2006-03-04T03:23:57Z")
Wow. I scanned a picture of myself when I was 15, only slightly overweight and kinda’ handsome. Bridgit Bardot!!! And it matched one of the “young, hot” pictures. Wow. I musta’ been hotter than I thought back then. And more female. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/47 "2006-03-04T03:29:21Z")
Hmm, Gary Sinise (74%) Larry King (62%) Richard Gere (60%) Tarja Halonen (who??) (59%) Steven Soderbergh (57%) Shiri Appleby (again, who?) (57%) Rupert Grint (54%) Adam Brody (54%) And I always thought I was female… ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/48 "2006-03-04T04:10:26Z")
First picture: Tim Allen (60%) Gunpei Yokoi (64% - Who the fuck is that? I’m not even asian!) Second Picture: Greg Louganis (66%) Third Picture: Richard Clayderman (Who the fuck?) - 64% On a side note, an ex-girlfriend of mine who is in the picture ‘looks like’ Tony Stewart, with the exception of her being hot and female, and him being a rather unattractive male. Fourth Picture: Ian Somerhalder (72%) The girl I’m with in this pic looks like Kate Hudson. (72%). Go me! Fifth picture (me about 30lbs. lighter): Gail Garcia Bernal (73%) Keanu Reeves (73%) ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/49 "2006-03-04T04:12:51Z")
Robert DeNiro, which I just don’t see. Rudolf Steiner, who I don’t know. Mikhail Saakashvili, which I _do_ see. Hidetoshi Nakata and Hrithik Roshan, who I also don’t know. Gao Xingjian. FDR. Hmm… Odd. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/50 "2006-03-04T04:18:11Z")
I laughed. Alot. Rita Hayworth (82%) Heidi Klum (71%) Charlize Theron (71%) Ashley Judd (64%) Kate Hudson (64%) Kathleen Turner (64%) Goldie Hawn (64%) If nothing else, it was good for my ego. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/51 "2006-03-04T07:35:13Z")
It seems like part of how they match you up is based on what facial expression you and the celebrity are making in the pics they happen to use. I put in a strip of four pics I had taken in a photo booth (very unflattering pics, so I’m not going to post them here 🙂 ), and it gave me four very different results: -JK Rowling (64%) -Michael Keaton (55%) -Diane Kruger (58%) -Jamie Lynn Spears (49%) When I was looking at the comparison, it seemed like part of the reason they matched me with Michael Keaton was just because he and I were smiling in a similar way in our pics. Anyway, it’s still pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/52 "2006-03-04T08:13:12Z")
I keep getting, “No Face Detected” messages. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/53 "2006-03-04T10:32:09Z")
Katie Holmes - 73%. I don’t see it at all. Kate Beckinsale - 73%. I see it in the picture they provide, but in other pictures, no. Her nose is pointier than mine. Halle Berry - 73%. You know I wouldn’t MIND looking like her, but AWWHELLNAW I certainly don’t! Sophie Ellis-Bextor - 73%. We don’t look alike but we both have high cheekbones. I also have no idea who this is. Carrie-Anne Moss - 72%. Nowhere close! Except maybe the cheekbones again. Audrey Tautou - 72%. Nope. Can’t be bothered to Google the rest of the results to see more pics of them (I seem to have a lot of results!) so here they are sans commentary. Shannen Doherty 71% Shirley MacLaine 71% Sarah Michelle Gellar 71% Ben Stiller 71% (who kinda looks like my dad in this pic, but doesn’t usually, and definitely doesn’t look like me!) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/54 "2006-03-04T19:18:31Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > I laughed. Alot. > > Rita Hayworth (82%) > Heidi Klum (71%) > Charlize Theron (71%) > Ashley Judd (64%) > Kate Hudson (64%) > Kathleen Turner (64%) > Goldie Hawn (64%) > > If nothing else, it was good for my ego. hm…how you doin? ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/55 "2006-03-04T19:25:48Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > hm…how you doin? Didn’t you already try that pick-up line in the slut test thread? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PinkMarabou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/56 "2006-03-04T20:27:21Z")
Wow! Here’s my list: Marcia Cross 68% Alyson Hannigan 67% Condoleeza Rice (???!!!) 61% Amanda Peet 60% Lucille Ball 58% Jang Nara 58% Zhang Ziyi 55% Geri Halliwell 54% Beyonce Knowles 54% ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/57 "2006-03-04T21:03:14Z")
No matches. It wasn’t a very good pic, though – the good pix are all tifs, which they don’t take. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/58 "2006-03-04T21:32:09Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > I keep getting, “No Face Detected” messages. Hmmm. Under your high school yearbook photo, did it say “Not Pictured?” ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946/59 "2006-03-05T03:56:47Z")
Oh man, what a riot! Julianne Moore (66%) John Ritter - hehe, I’ve always thought that my older brother looked very much like John Ritter. And now, I guess, so do I! :eek: BeBe Neuwirth Isabelle Huppert Diane Keaton Kate Hudson Meryl Streep Melissa Gilbert Deborah Kerr Michael Jordan (51%) - Well, my hair is thinning, but not that much. [Linky](http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceRecognitionFlash.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&database=1&temp=1915a044b8lujw13&server=Server3&startYear=1800&endYear=2005) And then I ran my baby picture… Annette Bening (62%) T.E. Lawrence George Peppard Christian Bale Jane Fonda 50 Cent ?who? Yasmine Bleeth Michael Douglas - We have a winner! Lovely. Steve Reich Omar Sharif (47%) [Baby Link](http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceRecognitionFlash.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN&temp=e8e5a044w1ujwd13&server=Server5&database=1&startYear=1800&endYear=2005) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-apparently-i-look-like-keanu-reeves/346946.md?page=2)