Have You Ever Been Mistaken For A Celebrity?

My college roommate looked a little like Matt LeBlanc

One day a bunch of us were at the movies and this little kid was pointing at him going "Joey Tribiani! Joey Tribiani! Joey Tribiani is here!"

My roommate was thrilled--he'd heard the LeBlanc thing before, and he spent the next two years telling every girl he hit on (or making me or one of our other friends tell them) how much he looked like Matt LeBlanc.

(Friends-era Matt LeBlanc.)

Yes. Probably 50 times in my twenties I got "are you Owen Wilson?" No. I am not.

A young Freddy Prinze Jr.

Ashley Judd (Kiss The Girls era).

I was standing with my back to two women, and when I turned around they told me they’d thought I was Tom Hanks. So in the mid-90s I guess I looked like Tom Hanks but only from behind...

I had a woman beg me to contact Growing Pains to let them know I was Kirk Cameron’s double and could stand in for him in the event he could not go on. I think she was on crack!

Whoa, R2 beat me to it! About 15 years ago the cable TV installer thought I actually was OW.

I am mistaken for Matt Bomer continuously. gets tiresome.

Meg Tilly, late 80s.

I was ordering a drink and suddenly a guy came right up to my side, his eyes bug-eyed looking straight a me. Startled, I looked back at him like wtf? He immediately said "I'm sorry, but I actually thought your were Meg Tilly!"

I hope it was her "The Big Chill" era he had in mind when he saw me.

Ruth Buzzi

lol, r10

I get confused for Jeff Daniels and Woody Harrelson all the time. I was going for NYPD Blue-era Ricky Schroder, but a compliment is a compliment.

Alain Delon. There's some DL guy who blew me about 30 years ago in a NY baths and who keeps writing in about blowing Delon. Okay. Why not, if it makes him happy.

Martin Scorsese. I’m 6’3”.

Very understandable. He's 3'6".

Not mistaken for, but back in the day it was a regular occurrence for me to be told how much I looked like Christopher Reeve. Even went out with a guy who said I was a good looking Christopher Reeve.

Since the mid 70's I have had more people than I can remember people tell me that I bear a striking resemblance to Anthony Hopkins. I was fine with it 40 years ago, not so fine with it today.

R16 stay off the horses.

When I was a teenager and runty, Ralph Macchio.

When I was in my thirties, it was Sal Mineo. Several people told my I resembled him, not that I was mistaken for him. He was dead for over 20 years.

Ooops, misunderstood the OP. Mistaken for a celebrity? Only once, and not really a 'celebrity' -- a trio of guys in India thought I was some soccer player (I don't know who though, since I don't follow the sport) 😆.

A young Matthew Broderick

Joel Grey. Not sure why.

Nicolas Cage - several times in the mid 80s. Not so much now.

Yes, Richard Pryor.

I was in Atlantic City, playing the slot machines. The woman next me though I was Howie Mandel.

Several years ago I was surprised in a restaurant when two youngish ladies were talking and one of them loudly whispered to her friend, "Look, it's that guy from TV." I looked around to see who they were talking about and realized it was me. They continued with their chatter, while trying to look like they weren't surreptitiously staring at me. At one point one of them made eye contact with me, got flustered and gave me a little wave. I have absolutely no idea who they thought I was, because I don't look like anyone famous. I live in Southern California, where celebrity sightings are common, but I'd sure as hell like to know who they thought I was. My fame was fun for the 10 or so minutes it lasted.

I was not misstsken, but I looked like Marlon Brando as a young man when I young. Needless to say, I had a very good time.

Richard Dreyfuss, repeatedly. Once by Steve Allen, who should have known better. Since both of us were in our 20's, whether bearded, clean-shaven, or balding: we've aged the same way.

And years ago with a dozen friends at Mardi Gras where they tried to comp us brunch at the Hyatt because they thought we were the recently released hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran. The weird part was, years later I got to know one of the real hostages and he told me nothing like that had ever happened to him.

R27 I remember you. We thought you were David Charvet.

The guys at the car wash thought I was Bruce Willis. Maybe they were looking for a bigger tip, but I did give them an autograph

Alec Baldwin - young in that movie in the submarine

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Craig Wasson (probably known best from DePalma's BODY DOUBLE) and Billy Moses from FALCON CREST (a woman once stopped me on the street in my hometown, got in my face, and leered, "Mmmmmm, Beely Mozez.")

R19 wax on, wax off Daniel-san.

That McGyver guy but that's almost every guy.

A very hot waiter asked me if I was Billy Bob Thornton, and I laughed and said "gee thanks" and he said "I think he is a very handsome man," - Billy bob it is!

And you left him a nice tip, one hopes.

Several - over the course of three months :) we dated until he left for a job in dubai

R37 yes I would feel proud, too. He’s a hunk.

R35, ack. I had a gym teacher who would call me that, in jest. At least other kids didn't really get it ⸺ Karate Kid was over a decade before. Brings back memories!

R19 but you were pretty too.

John C. Reilly.

R42, thanks. I think he meant it as a compliment, but at the time, I took it like he was comparing me to a skinny runt who always gets his butt kicked. 😂 Didn't help that I have a somewhat similar last name.

Bea Arthur.

R43 I think John C. Reilly is a very handsome man.

R46 uhm, sure, ok?? Really?

I wouldn't want to meet R45 in a dark alley.

I regularly get mistaken for Megan Fox.

yep. Kate Bush in a bathroom in Brighton.

I've had several people tell me I look like Andy King the Frye blow job guy. I'm not quite as red faced tho. I had to look him up, I had no idea who they were talking about.

I was having coffee in the nineties at the Abbey with my bf who looked like gorgeous young Hugh Grant with longer hair and his friend who looked like Sheryl Crow. People often commented that I looked like Antonio Sabato Jr. There was quite a buzz around us. It was fun telling people, no, we are not those people.

Hattie McDaniel

I have borne a passing resemblance to Jeremy Irons (he's a little more than 10 years older than I) over the years (always as he looked in films shot 10 years prior, or course) , and people have noted that, but not so much that people have mistaken me for him. (Similar build, very similar facial structure). My eyes are bigger and green, not brown, but otherwise, for sure we could be brothers. He is not the actor I would have chosen to look like, if I had had my druthers, but we don't, and he was attractive enough in his time that I don't resent it. No one dreams of growing up to look like Charles Laughton, for instance.

On the other hand, my younger brother is a dead ringer for Hugh Laurie (as he looked on House). Scary how much he resembles him, really. I'm quite sure people have stopped him and asked him if he's the actor from House.

When I was younger and thinner I got mistaken for Sean Hayes a couple times. Standing in line to see Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss several people refused to believe I wasn’t the guy on the poster.

Ernest Borgnine.

I was horrified in my 20's to be mistaken for John Malkovich. First it was all, damn, have I last that much hair? I'm kind of seeing it now as much time has passed, and I feel more at ease about ageing. He's not bad looking, so...

As a youth, JFK Jr. As an old ugly fart, Wayne Knight.

Sarah Huckabee-Sanders.

I'm a balding, 6'2" man.

Ricky Schroeder

Wilford Brimley! Many years ago my job had me in Oakland, Ca.. One evening I went to the Bench and Bar to have a couple of drinks. I was sitting at the bar when the bartender brought me a drink telling me that it came from a gentleman sitting with friends at a table in the rear. Shortly after the group from the table got up to leave the guy who'd bought me the drink came up to me and said "Mr. Brimley, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your work." I said thank you very much, and thank you for the drink.

R54 do you also have no lips?

There’s some good looking people on the DL

r40 - I actually didn't see it myself nor has anyone else ever said that. I actually get Steve Austin the WWE guy a lot, but probably because I shave my head and have a goatee and work out.

R64, sounds hot.

John Cleese. I take that, happily.

r62 rather than no lips, I would describe them as "mini-lips"......LOL

I used to get Piper Perabo in her Coyote Ugly era, and also Brittany Murphy before she died. Sometimes older people say SJP, but that makes me sad. My face is certainly not that horsey.

My brother looks like Lucas Haas.

R69, what’s your brother’s number?

Johnny Depp during the time Edward Scissorhands was released. I was pale, thin, and I wore my dark hair in a similar style. Mercifully, the ravages of time have not affected me as badly as they have Johnny Depp.

Back in the day Adam Ant.

Then George Michael.

Now, some guy from a British cooking show.

Say what you will, but above average ages well.

Back in the early '90s, a soap actress -

straight guys used to come up to me in bars: “hey yo, big ben, what’s up, big ben?”

thankfully this was before his rape allegations.

I've had a few "you look like" comments over the years; the most flattering being Jeff Bridges and Scott Bakula (this was around 2007 or so). Very flattering, but not that accurate.

About 15 years and 40 lbs. prior, someone thought I was the musician Marshall Crenshaw and he was sooo excited to meet me. I told him he was mistaken, but he insisted that I was just being coy, so I said "yes, it's me" and as he walked away, I overheard him telling his buddy, "Dude, we just met Marshall Crenshaw!"

I had NO idea who MC was, so I went to a record store to see his albums (this was the pre-Internet image search Dark Ages). Sure enough, he was a skinny, nerdy dude with round glasses and looked more like my brother than my actual sibling. He is also 7 years older, so as a vain 20-somethig gayling, I was horrified that someone thought I was in my 30s!

Janet Reno

yes..........Sting, and I was NOT happy about it

A little brat followed me around calling me Eric Stonestreet but I think he was being a joker.

Michael Jackson

Rick Springfield, 1979, SF

Since ‘86 people have been telling me I look like Robert Downey Jr - I still do - and there were 3 times back in the 90s when I was mistaken for him.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but twice in two different fast food restaurants I was asked if I am Jim Nabors.

R77 But did you smell like Sting? If so, that might have been a confirming factor for the mis-identifier's confusion...

I think I've seen R77 on the street....

Jean Claude Van Damme, when I was younger

Kevin Spacey. I’m never been pleased about it. But I DO look a lot like him

When I was in my 20's, Sade. But from afar. Once people got within 10 feet of me, they realized the error of trying to approach me and did quick u-turns.

I've been told that I resemble: Jody Watley, Tiger Woods, Donna Karan, and Sandra Oh.

I'm a tan Asian woman.

In the 90s, I got Jodie Foster and Bridget Fonda all the time.

Who look nothing alike, but there you have it.

Billy Joel when I was in my 20's, and again now because we both look like shit.

My partner was mistaken for Dave Gahan many times. But my partner is taller and better looking.

[quote] I've been told that I resemble: Jody Watley, Tiger Woods, Donna Karan, and Sandra Oh.

Wait. That's wild, Tan Asian Woman!

Dale Winton actually in a supermarket.

John Bunny, the movie comedian.

Andrew Cunanan. Good the manhunt is no more!

Tom Cruise and Dan Aykroyd when I had hair. Then Ed Harris and Jason Staham when I didn’t. I miss having hair.

Meryl

How on earth could it be G??

In my 20s, Billy Campbell (well, they would say "The Rocketeer")

In my 30s, Robert Downey Jr many times.

Now I get that Geoffrey Dean Morgan (Negan on "The Walking Dead") guy.

Julianne Moore. Seriously.

Trump. So I lost 200 libs. and shaved my head.

I also got Julianne Moore. And I don’t even have red hair. But I look a lot like her in the face. And am pale as a ghost.

Noah Wyle

Marilyn Monroe. Not so much a physical resemblance....It's more something I CHANNEL.

marry me, r102