# You know, you look just like \[insert celebrity here\]! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532 "2008-09-14T03:52:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/41 "2008-09-15T14:01:40Z")
I have twice, about ten years apart (late teens and late twenties), both by women, been told I look like Tom Cruise. Everyone else I tell this to laughs hysterically. Me: [Headshot (professional, looks least like me in real life)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/nathan.jpg); [wedding (closer, but still a professional shot)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/374649609305_0_ALB.jpg); [candid (this is what I really look like, double chin and all)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/Honeymoonandcat062.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/42 "2008-09-15T14:03:54Z")
I’ve gotten Jane Curtin, Doris Day and (gulp) Cybill Shepherd. I don’t look _anything_ like Cybill Shepherd. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/43 "2008-09-15T14:13:10Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > My work colleague yesterday told me that I remind him of [Edna](http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/incredibles/chars_pop7.html) from “the Incredibles”. I’ve also got [Yoko Ono](http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/john-lennon-yoko-ono.jpg), and weirdly, my husband thinks I look like [Natalie Morales](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1321636864/nm2295540) > > [This](http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b248/katiecairnsirishgirl/?action=view¤t=katiearrivingatchurch.jpg) is [me](http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b248/katiecairnsirishgirl/?action=view¤t=HPIM0341.jpg). > > You can draw your own conclusions. I conclude that you work with blind people. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/44 "2008-09-15T14:28:03Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > I have twice, about ten years apart (late teens and late twenties), both by women, been told I look like Tom Cruise. Everyone else I tell this to laughs hysterically. > > Me: [Headshot (professional, looks least like me in real life)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/nathan.jpg); [wedding (closer, but still a professional shot)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/374649609305_0_ALB.jpg); [candid (this is what I really look like, double chin and all)](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/Honeymoonandcat062.jpg) Eh, not Tom Cruise, but I see some Sean Austin in you (except for the nose). Love the kilt, btw. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/45 "2008-09-15T14:37:15Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Andie McDowell. > > I had a funny conversation with a friend on this subject. I said that I’ve heard I look like Andie MacDowell and she said “Who’s that?” I said the chick from Sex Lies and Videotape and Green Card. My friend said I look like the chick in the Pantene commercials. I said who’s that? My friend said, you know, the actress from Groundhog’s Day. I swatted her with my notebook - That’s Andie MacDowell! > > So, there you go. I think I really look like her in this [pic](http://gloriana.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album09&id=christmas07) > > The rest of the [album](http://gloriana.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album09) I saw your photo and immediately thought ‘Amy Winehouse’. Don’t be insulted, she was lovely before the car crash. I used to get a combination of Princess Di and Kritsin Scott Thomas. I’m EXTREMELY flattered by the KST reference, and encourage it at every opportunity. However, I have now reverted to my natural brunette colour - with my shortish hair, my girlfriend says I’m a dead ringer for Nina from 24. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/46 "2008-09-15T15:06:17Z")
Several years ago somebody posted a “Dewar’s Profile” ad on my office door featuring editorial cartoonist **Paul Szep**. They covered up the name, so nobody could see who it was about. A lot of people then came up and asked me, in all seriousness, how I got into a whiskey ad. Even I had to admit that the resemblance was uncanny, except that Szep has much more Leno-esque chin. It used to be that I couldn’t find pictures of Szep on the internet to back this up with, but now I can. Unfortunately, in the intervening years we’ve diverged. Szep seems to be aging in the “Help! My Face is Melting!” mode that got Walter Matthau. I don’t think I look like him that much anymore, judging by this picture: [http://www.szep.com/About%20Szep\_page.htm](http://www.szep.com/About%20Szep_page.htm) [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-szep](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-szep) ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532/47 "2008-09-15T15:14:42Z")
My [dad](http://family.webshots.com/photo/1082297482045159264CfMmBL) looks eerily like [Raymond Burr](http://www.gloubik.info/burr/images/galerie/burr-promotion.jpg), but with [Alan Alda](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Alan_Alda_Emmys_1994.jpg)’s body type and posture. My [mom](http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/1082298313045159264AbHlUf) (on the left), if you can get her to take off her glasses, looks like [Majel](http://www.uah.edu/~jim/majel2.jpg) [Roddenberry](http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/de/images/e/e5/Majel_Barrett_und_Gene_Roddenberry.jpg). My [sister](http://lh5.ggpht.com/leech33/SCXiHlpp4eI/AAAAAAAAAh0/vidBzBhdVYw/s800/100_3831.JPG) looks like some of the less-posed shots of [Britney Spears](http://images.askmen.com/galleries/singer/britney-spears/pictures/britney-spears-picture-1.jpg)… but don’t tell my sister I said so. In my 20s, I used to get [Mia](http://www.thefakelife.com/blog/uploaded_images/Pinup5MiaSaraBIG.jpg) [Sara](http://www.geocities.com/oona4evuh/endkisslegend.jpg), [Jennifer Jason Leigh](http://images.allposters.com/images/mmph-e/254548.jpg), and [Jennifer Connelly](http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Jennifer-Connelly---Labyrinth-Photograph-C10101624.jpeg). I think they were all just brunettes about my age with long hair and unfinished faces. I don’t have any pictures of me at that age, but here’s [me](http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/1076825479045159264iEfmff) five years ago. (I’m on the right). Sadly, when I had my bangs short like that, I almost never got [Bettie Page](http://www.lasvegasbuffetclub.com/Bettie%20Page,%20color1.jpg). ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-look-just-like-insert-celebrity-here/463532.md?page=2)