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“Who Are Two Celebrities Who Look Alike?”: 30 People Provide Answers That Can’t Be Unseen
We have all probably had that somewhat awkward moment when we see an actor or actress on screen and we exclaim “Oh, I didn’t know that so and so was in this!” only to quickly realize that so and so really isn’t in what you happen to be watching.
So one forward-thinking netizen posed a question to the internet, asking what two celebrities look so similar that people always get them mixed up. Examples poured forth from the internet, so get ready to perhaps be a bit confused as you scroll through, upvote the pairs that you absolutely get mixed up, and be sure to comment any similar examples you have encountered.
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#1
Adele Dazeem And Idina Menzel
Upstaged75 2 years ago
They're the same person. Her name is Idina Menzel and she's an amazing theater actress. Also the voice of Elsa from Frozen. During the Oscars one year John Travolta lost his mind and introduced her as Adele Dazeem.
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#2
Woody Harrelson And Anna Gunn
Upstaged75 2 years ago
But Woody's sibling (Brett) is currently pushing CBD oil on TV. :)
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#3
Nina Dobrev And Victoria Justice
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
I can always pick Victoria from her, she’s just got such bubbly eyes when she smiles
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
I don‘t know who they are but you are correct about the „bubbly“ eyes. (You mean the right hand one, yes?)
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Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Thank you! Dang, I'm getting old and unhip. No clue without Googling and I just don't care enough to do that.
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While shared media, like films and shows, are one of the easiest ways for a lot of people to mistake the same person for someone else, this phenomenon is old enough that multiple cultures' folklore has tales, legends, and monsters around the concept. Fortunately, in this day and age, the worst a look-alike may do is embarrass you during a movie night.
Another word for people that look way too similar to someone else is the wonderful German loanword, doppelgänger, which literally means double walker, which first comes up in written sources in Jean Paul’s 1796 novel “Siebenkäs.” It didn’t enter mainstream use outside of the German language until almost a century later.
#4
Natalie Portman And Keira Knightley
Kiera Knightley played Portman's body double in The Phantom Menace. Like in the actual film, her character was Padme's stand in.
KDS 2 years ago
When they were side by side in costume it was said that Natalie own mother couldn’t tell them apart.
Admiralu 2 years ago
Kiera was her handmaiden bodyguard in Star Wars The Phantom Menace
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whaaaaaaaaaa 2 years ago
Yes me too, they do have some similar facial features but you can definitely tell them apart
Load More Replies... Emmydearest 2 years ago
Yes, but to be honest the resemblance was bigger in the past. Natalie used to have a plumper face, more round. So it looked like Kiera had similar features, only more "squareish". Now Natalie's face is more angular do the resemblance is less significant
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I don't get this one. They look similar in some aspects, but hardly identical. Different jawlines, ears, brow ridges, facial contours, mouths, etc.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
They often play the same type of roles. These pictures aren't a good example but I always gets them confused.
Load More Replies... Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
It depends on what age they were, the picture above is clearly obvious who is who....
#5
Alan Tudyk And Anthony Rapp
Nimitz 2 years ago
How dare you not recognize Science Daddy from Star Trek!
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Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
One of those guys was in Rent the movie. That is all I can tell you.
#6
Will Ferrell And Chad Smith!
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Will Ferrell could literally sit in with the RHCP and I'm sure I wouldn't notice.
Mistiekim 2 years ago
Will even plays the drums. They did a good bit on The Tonight Show together where there was a drum- off I think
Jo Davies 2 years ago
Yes, they did. And to be fair, Will did quite well.
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago (edited)
I loved Will Ferrell as »Volcano Man«...he's got my melting heart...and funny af...who's who?https://s3.amazonaws...umoff_large.jpg
Scientists have actually determined that people who look very similar to each other, tend to have more genes in common than people who don’t. Mind you, this applies to true “doppelgänger,” not people with a few traits in common. The implications are that there could be similarities beyond just appearance, meaning that the people listed here might all be famous for a similar reason.
#7
Jeffrey Dean Morgan And Javier Bardem
Mary Bricklin 2 years ago
... they could have chosen better pictures. These two actually look a lot alike.
Kirstin Frosheiser 1 year ago
Yes even though someone said these pictures aren't the best options they still look a lot alike in these pictures but yeah they're almost identical
Ollie’s Mom 2 years ago
Yes! I know they look different but somehow I always get them mixed up!
#8
Josh Duhamel And Timothy Olyphant
Fenchurch 2 years ago
They said in interviews that people mix them up and I vaguely remember a story about them using each other’s photos on Christmas cards
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Lem Johnson 2 years ago
I think Josh Duhamel and Eric Dane are a closer match than this. All three silver foxes though.
Holly Stevens 2 years ago
one of them posed in the other's family Christmas photos as a joke and his own mum didn't notice
Nicky Shrimps 2 years ago
Timothy took a photo of Josh with his kids and used it as his Christmas card. His mom had it up in her house for awhile before he had to point out that it was Josh.
#9
Kathryn Hahn And Ana Gasteyer
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Kathryn Hahn is one of the funniest ladies ever! Watch Bad Words or Bad Moms, OMFG! 🤣🤣🤣
If scrolling through these pictures made you start to question who you had seen where you wouldn’t be alone, Filmmaker Ron Howard, father of Bryce Dallas Howard, once mistook Jessica Chastain for his own daughter, although Bryce Dallas Howard is a whole three inches taller than Chastain.
#10
Gary Busey And Nick Nolte
Mistiekim 2 years ago
Only in the years following drug use which left them both mad as the hatter from Alice in Wonderland
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
Well in Gary Busey's defense, he received major brain damage from a motorbike accident and he had an untreated tumor in his head for years. Yes, crazy as hell, but he is suffering.
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Kirstin Frosheiser 1 year ago
No Nicks way more handsome. They're both a little bit of an oddball.
Persephone 2 years ago
Busey has a brother that looks just like him too that acts! Forget what I saw him in, but my mom and I said "omg he has to be a Busey!!"
Pickles, Pennies, & Ponies 2 years ago
I always confuse Gary Busey thinking it's a young Nick Nolte.
#11
Stanley Tucci And Mark Strong
Jiji The Cat 2 years ago
I 100% thought this was the same person until now!
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Yes!! I really love to watch him in movies. Although I really didn't like his character jn "The Lovely Bones".
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sophiedumas1184@gmail.com 2 years ago
I always thought Mark Strong and Andy Garcia looked similar
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
His drinks and cooking classes during the pandemic saved me!!
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Billy Zane And Arnold Vosloo
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Agree. This movie had the sexiest cast of all time. Brendan Frasier, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velasquez, Oded Fehr...all gorgeous.
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whaaaaaaaaaa 2 years ago
Okay some others I can see why they say they're similar but the only thing these two share in common is being bald and that doesn't even count like at all
Nimitz 2 years ago
Yeah, I def didn't know these were two people. I straight up thought Billy Zane was in The Mummy...
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
They look nothing alike. Literally every feature is noticeably different. And Billy doesn't have Arnold's sexy pouty lips.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
Arnold Vosloo (f-or-sss-lua) became famous in South Africa in a movie called "Boetie Gaan Border Toe" (Young brother goes to the border) and my own brother refuses to call "The Mummy" by its name. He calls it "Boetie Gaan Egypt Toe" (Young Bro goes to Egypt).
Of course, some examples, like the Olsen twins are sort of cheating, since the real difficulty is quickly telling them apart, not mixing them up with a fully unrelated person. Contrary to popular belief, not all twins share the majority of characteristics, in most cases two separate eggs are fertilized by two separate sperm, so the children are just siblings, whose traits differ or not to varying degrees.
#13
Natalia Dyer And Timothee Chalamet
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 2 years ago
Omg I was watching a movie with my daughter and Timothy shows up. I told her "is that Nancy (stranger things)?" And we burst at laughing because my daughter loves Tim chalamet.
Megan Wilson 2 years ago
I don’t see this one at all. They just both have prominent cheek bones.
Kirstin Frosheiser 1 year ago
It's only the chins, and they're both gorgeous people but I'm an older lady and I really think Timothee is so good looking. I don't have thoughts like that often anymore lol.
#14
Skeet Ulrich And Johnny Depp
zak 2 years ago
Ha, I forgot Skeet Ulrich existed. Can't remember him in anything other than Scream and The Craft. I always thought he looked just like the singer from Bush (Gavin Rosdale?)
NetworkNate 2 years ago
He was also in a film with Jack Nicholson , 'As Good As IT Gets'!
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#15
Malcom Mcdowell And Terrence Stamp
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
Terrence was so handsome in The Collector. Not sure Malcolm was ever really handsome.
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
He was mighty fine in Time After Time (imho), a movie that simultaneously established my lifelong crush on Malcolm McDowell and lifelong fear of David Warner. :p
Load More Replies...Writers of all shapes and sizes have long loved the potential for storytelling from a mistaken identity or, even worse, a hostile doppelgänger. Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lord Byron, among many, many others center plots around a person who looks very similar to someone else, or this concept is used as a metaphor to explore human nature and our perceptions of things.
#16
Tom Hardy And Logan Marshall-Green
Lucille 2 2 years ago
I can see it! The face shape and eyes/eyebrows are extremely similar, I would have thought they were brothers
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Ece Cenker 2 years ago
These two! I watched Prometheus 2.5 times thinking I was watching Tom Hardy!!
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
I’m relieved to find out it’s not just me who hasta pause every time I see LMG to think whether it’s Tom Hardy! I assumed I was getting old.
#17
Margot Robbie And Emma Mackey
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Yep, when I saw Ready or Not had to take a second look to realize she wasn't Margot Robbie.
Load More Replies... Valek Fermiga 2 years ago
Please tell me it's not just me who thinks they don't look alike....??
Kirstin Frosheiser 1 year ago
I see this one more than some others. I bet if they dyed their hair identical and wore their makeup identical that could be interesting. Obviously not identical but if you aren't so familiar with one of their faces you could go either way I'm guessing.
Board Pan, duh. 2 years ago
And,Georgia from Too hot to handle .they look like siblings and have the same accent hehe
Holly Stevens 2 years ago
They actually cast Emma in the Barbie movie with Margot because Margot always got people saying this
#18
Isla Fisher And Amy Adams
DarkGlassSphere 2 years ago
Well, both of them are smiling, even though they don't whant to.
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whaaaaaaaaaa 2 years ago
If you put Avril Lavigne instead I would actually have no idea. I literally thought the one the eight was Avril Lavigne at first then I realized who it was
Films and comic books have used similar ideas as well, indeed, a character that can physically turn into someone else is almost a trope in the superhero genre, although the actual concept goes a lot further back to mythology. Everything from horror to comedies has centered on this concept, with both supernatural entities and comedic misunderstandings in equal measure.
#19
Katy Perry And Zooey Deschanel
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
All white girls with dark hair look alike. 🤣 jk Perry is gorgeous but Deschanel doesn't seem to age a day.
Biljana Malesevic 2 years ago
Similar hair and big blue eyes. Other than that, they are nothing alike.
#20
Thomas Jane And Aaron Eckhart
#21
Julie Bowen And Elizabeth Banks
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Elizabeth Banks played Sal on Modern Family. I don't think they look alike.
Bec 2 years ago
I think of Elizabeth as having a taller, leaner build. Julie Bowen was the love interest in Happy Gilmore and looks completely different than she did in Modern Family - to the point that it took me years to realize it was her.
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Mass media has allowed us to identify these specific doppelgängers more easily than ever, but many people want to take the concept even further. Nowadays, there are multiple websites where one can submit pictures of their face, and through facial recognition software, the site will attempt to find a person who looks identical to you. While documenting and digitizing your face for an unknown entity is perhaps questionable, many people do actually find their “twins” online.
#22
Samara Weaving And Margot Robbie
E H 2 years ago
I got halfway through "Ready or Not" before I realized she wasn't Margot Robbie!
Crystal Campbell 1 year ago
I would pay to watch a Barbie movie with Samar Weaving Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie where Ken clones Barbie’s personalities in the real world or Evil real life triplets with a children of the corn omage
#23
Bryce Dallas Howard & Jessica Chastain
Lucille 2 2 years ago
Some people aren’t as good at pattern recognition as others :) I watched most of that black mirror episode before I had to Google to figure out it wasn’t Jessica Chastain - it’s not just the hair, look at the face shape, lip shape, nose shape.
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Catnapper19 1 year ago
Oh yeah these two look completely different in these pictures, I've seen different ones where Bryce (left) has darker lipstick, her hair is swept to the right side of her face, and her face looks clearer. That picture *the one I'm referring to* looks more like Jessica than this one, honestly
#24
Jenna Ortega And Camila Cabello
Kanzi 2 years ago
Two beautiful women with some resemblance but not so much that one can't tell them apart
FrivolousFox 2 years ago
Yeah they got a similar thing going on but they are also each very much themselves
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whaaaaaaaaaa 2 years ago
Oh no absolutely not, who even thought of this? They don't look alike at all, they're just both brunette latinas. They really don't look the same wtf
Catnapper19 1 year ago
Camila has darker skin tone than Jenna, and Camila has a slightly huskier voice
While popular myths argue that everyone has at least one doppelgänger, there is no concrete evidence for this, beyond statistical assumptions. That being said, there are people who have multiple doppelgängers, which might be a somewhat eerie feeling. In most cases, the similarities in appearance are reserved for facial features, meaning that in these cases, the people look more like siblings than twins.
#25
Jesse Eisenberg And Andy Samberg
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
You haven't seen this meme? aWErbyZ_70...234945.jpg 
#26
Nathan Fillion And Jason Bateman
Real Human 2 years ago
At first I thought the other guy WAS Jason Bateman- I instantly said to myself "Oh, that's the guy from arrested development!" Then I saw the other picture
tuzdayschild 2 years ago
Nathan Fillion joked about being mistaken for Jason Bateman all the time.
#27
Michael B Jordan And Nick Cannon
Mama Penguin 2 years ago (edited)
They don't look alike. Nick Cannon is a good looking guy but Michael B. Jordan is 🔥
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
True enough, but my partner just said that Nick Cannon looks like the Shien version of Michael B. Jordan. "What I expected vs what I got" 🤣
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️ ️lefty libra️ (she/her) 2 years ago
id say micheal b. jordan and jamie foxx. (is that his name???)
However, given the availability of DNA testing, a number of people have found long-lost relatives and siblings almost by accident when attempting to see what people might look like. After all, the likelihood of a random, non-relative looking just like you is a lot less than if this person is actually a family member somewhere down the line.
#28
Jim Carrey And Bruce Campbell
#29
Jessie Eisenberg And Michael Cera
#30
Bob Odenkirk And Kevin Costner
Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
Costner is a hack (in my opinion). Odenkirk is one of my comedy heroes.
The fascination with celebrity look-alikes and the human penchant for finding doppelgängers in popular media has certainly captured public attention. As discussed in the article about Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly, fans were shocked at their uncanny resemblance, and it was hard for people to tell them apart. In the broader discussion of doppelgängers, these astonishing similarities in appearance can be experienced in everyday life, reminding us of moments when we do a double take at the screen, certain of mistaken identity. Such surprises may elicit reactions similar to when fans encountered the similarities between these two actresses.
To understand how some celebs bewilder fans with their striking looks, explore how even Hollywood stars can fall victim to identity mistakes.
#31
Elijah Wood And Danielle Radcliffe
Theo Blackwood 2 years ago
Maybe because they keep getting mistaken for each other and have signed autographs as each other? Lol. You’re all so negative.
Anna Ekberg 2 years ago
Hahaha, I saw the interview about this. Was really funny.
Load More Replies... Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I don’t think they look alike at all, but they both have big blue eyes, comparable hair, apparently a similar height, and they’ve both played some really REALLY crazy parts to perfection.
While finding a lost family member is great, there is also something to be said about looking like a celebrity. While it might be great to actually be a celebrity, being able to do a decent impersonation is always a good option as well. If you are a singer’s doppelgänger and you can sing, you might have a reasonable career doing covers and look-alike contests. Or at the very least, you’ll get to sign some autographs.
#32
Matt Damon And Mark Wahlberg
#33
Kristen Stewart And Jena Malone
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
I think Jena Malone looks similar to a young Joan Cusack.
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Alex Martin 2 years ago
One of them is a home-wrecking, heart-breaking, soulless, unemotional android dressed in skin she harvested from her victims and the other is Jena Malone.
#34
Ellen Pompeo And Renee Zellweger
Great Panda Mamu 2 years ago
It's all about which picture you choose. They don't really look very similar in most pics.
#35
Gerald Butler And Russel Crowe
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago
Sooo..they both have hair? They both never change their accent no matter the nationality of the character they play? Not really seeing a resemblance here 🤷♀️
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Crowe actually does change his accent. I've seen him put on an American accent and a (deliberately terrible) Greek accent (Thor Love & Thunder). I feel like I've seen Butler do an American accent (badly) in at least one movie too.
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Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I think this shows how we rarely really look at people closely, we just see some similar parts, our brain fills in the rest and goes „yep, those are the same person!”
FrivolousFox 2 years ago
Started off alright, went downhill fast. It’s like they gave up halfway through because they remembered they had to take a ham out of the oven and wanted to hurry up and get it done so they could go get their ham
Moosy Girl 2 years ago
I think this shows how we rarely really look at people closely, we just see some similar parts, our brain fills in the rest and goes „yep, those are the same person!”
FrivolousFox 2 years ago
Started off alright, went downhill fast. It’s like they gave up halfway through because they remembered they had to take a ham out of the oven and wanted to hurry up and get it done so they could go get their ham
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