When selecting the cast for a biopic, or biographical movie, the director must walk a fine line between selecting someone for their physical similarity vs. selecting them for having the thespian talent required to play the part. Here’s a list of actors who definitely succeeded on the physical similarity side of things, via Bored Panda.
(via Bored Panda)
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| Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock |
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| Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane and Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything |
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| Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side |
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| Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady |
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| Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus |
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| Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs |
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| Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel |
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| Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia |
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| Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida |
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| Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall |
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| Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy |
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| Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers |
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| Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X |
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| Daniel Day‑Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln |
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| Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray |
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| Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There |
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| Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra |
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| Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi |
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| Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors |
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| Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote |
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| Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena |
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| Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin |
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| Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk |
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| Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali in Midnight In Paris |
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| Will Smith as Muhammad Ali |
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| Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story |
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| Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster |
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| John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man |
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| Bill Hader as Andy Warhol |
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| James Franco as James Dean in James Dean |
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| Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash |
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| Anthony Hopkins as Picasso in Surviving Picasso |
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| Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose/la Môme |
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| Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf |
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| Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in Control |
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| John Goodman as Babe Ruth |
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| Gary Busey as Buddy Holly |
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| Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27 |
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| James Stewart as Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story |
(via Bored Panda)
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