You know, you look just like [insert celebrity here]!

[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); wedding (closer, but still a professional shot); candid (this is what I really look like, double chin and all)

[Sigmagirl]

I’ve gotten Jane Curtin, Doris Day and (gulp) Cybill Shepherd. I don’t look anything like Cybill Shepherd.

[Zebra]

@irishgirl

My work colleague yesterday told me that I remind him of Edna from “the Incredibles”. I’ve also got Yoko Ono, and weirdly, my husband thinks I look like Natalie Morales

This is me.

You can draw your own conclusions.

I conclude that you work with blind people.

[eleanorigby]

@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); wedding (closer, but still a professional shot); candid (this is what I really look like, double chin and all)

Eh, not Tom Cruise, but I see some Sean Austin in you (except for the nose). Love the kilt, btw.

[SanVito]

@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

The rest of the album

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.

[CalMeacham]

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.huffingtonpost.com/paul-szep

[emmaliminal]

My dad looks eerily like Raymond Burr, but with Alan Alda’s body type and posture.

My mom (on the left), if you can get her to take off her glasses, looks like Majel Roddenberry.

My sister looks like some of the less-posed shots of Britney Spears… but don’t tell my sister I said so.

In my 20s, I used to get Mia Sara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jennifer Connelly. 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 five years ago. (I’m on the right). Sadly, when I had my bangs short like that, I almost never got Bettie Page.