What celebrity do people say you look like? What about your younger self?

When I was younger, someone told me I looked like Jon Lovitz. The older me looks more like an older Geoffrey Zakarian.

I’ve always had a baby face which I hate but I used to get Rob Lowe a lot. I have fairer skin and darker hair but I guess we have similar features

Younger, Ray Liotta.

Older, Michael Keaton. Ugh.

My friends - and my mom - used to say I looked like Jeremy London on Party Of Five. Strangely nobody ever said I looked like Jason London, even though they're twins. I was happy about that but then I started to lose my hair and now I'm almost bald and nobody really says I look like anyone...

Younger, Meg Tilly, "Big Chill"

Oops, yes flattered.

I love Meg Tilly.

R2 Rob Lowe? Wow. I love Rob Lowe. But how can you have fairer skin than Rob...?

From high school through now, here are some of the comparisons people have made to my face. I can see all of them, but Hiddleson’s face is the wrong shape so I think it’s the big blinding white forehead and the age that made someone tell me last year he would play me in a movie of my life.

I can’t imagine Meg Tilly as a Packers fan.

“Were you flattered, or insulted?”

Billy Corgan—mortified

Shane West—flattered, a bit incredulous because he has a cute nose

NPH—I wouldn’t say insulted, but disappointed because I can really see it.

Orlando Bloom—Seemed totally preposterous, but I did a face swap with photos of him and me and the faces looked freakishly the same afterward. He could be my better-looking fraternal twin brother—or could have been five years ago.

Hiddleston—A little bewildered. Our faces are entirely different shapes. But otherwise, I looked at a lot of pictures and the high hairline and paleness and weariness...I can see a resemblance. I was a little freaked out for a minute and then I thought, meh, I’m over 40. I earned the crow’s feet!

Alec Baldwin when younger (both of us) Leonardo DiCaprio when older

When I was younger I was told I looked like Matthew Broderick and Tim Curry.

I get Nicole Kidman a lot when I wear the wig.

Shelly Winters.

Neither can I, r10.

I remember, a few decades ago, while at a bar (of course) a guy suddenly came right up to me with this excited look. He actually startled me. He immediately was apologetic, and said "I actually that thought you were Meg Tilly."

Marsha Mason

I sort of look like Ray Romano apparently.

I don’t see the resemblance but more than a few people have said so

I’m Hispanic/Latino:

Before: Greg Louganis, Johnny Mathis

Now: Fuckin’ Cheech Marin

I got Matthew Broderick from multiple people when I was younger. I didn't really see it beyond both of us being unremarkable white guys with dark hair. He was considerably hotter back then, but the intervening years have been a lot kinder to me. Perhaps horse riding is bad for the skin...

R8, Lowe had (and has) enviably clear and unblemished skin, but I wouldn't say that he's all that pale. Basically the entire population of Ireland has a lighter complexion.

When I was younger, a lot of people swore I looked like Robert Sean Leonard. I never really saw it, to be honest, but I was flattered nonetheless.

Guy Smiley and Sam the Eagle. It’s so awesome when people say you look like a muppet.

R8 I’m Irish and paper white! The sun burns me and then after a few days the burned skin peels off and I’m white again. Cannot tan. It sucks.

When I was younger I got Tobey Maguire quite often. I've never thought Tobey Maguire was attractive.

That’s hilarious, r22. Better those two than Sweetums!

[quote]It’s so awesome when people say you look like a muppet.

I had a teacher in high school who looked like Janis from the Muppets. She was NOT amused whenever someone mentioned it to her.

So your teacher looked like Donatella Versace as well, r26?

[quote]So your teacher looked like Donatella Versace as well,

She was even uglier lol!

When I was a teen, Ralph Macchio.

R4 Bad boy Griffin Holbrook (Jeremy L.) Poor Julia! (Neve Campbell).

Everybody said (says) I looked (look) like Jeff Bridges. When we were kids my brothers joked that our mother fucked Lloyd Bridges.

Jeff Bridges is a hot hunk of man. Lucky you!

During college I got Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation a LOT. I never really saw it but lots of other people did.

In my late 20s-early 30s I heard Sean Hayes quite a bit. When I was standing in line to see Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss a guy came up to me convinced I was the guy in the poster. I wore a goatee at the time so the similarity was there.

young: Christina Applegate now, I would guess no one is looking at me anymore and making comparisons unless it's the delta burke 'wtf happened to her' kind

Scott Baio (barf) when in high school and later on Alan Ruck (from Ferris Bueller and Spin City - my brother was told this too about himself, so it must be the weak chin). Most recently I was told by a supermarket cashier that I looked like "Gomer Pyle" (AKA Jim Neighbors) so it must just be the elderly gay coming through.

Young: Marlon Brando. Older Marlon Brando. The former was great. Now... not so much

Christopher Reeve, many times. It was true.

When i was younger, Al Parker. I was flattered.

Now, I'm invisible. I've gone way downhill. Very old looking.

I had a cashier once tell me that I looked like Charlie Day. I don't think we look much alike aside from the fact that we both have facial hair and somewhat similar-shaped faces. I'm way taller than him and have brown eyes, not blue. It weirded me out honestly because I've always thought he was hot.

Alan Ruck's not a bad guy to be compared to, even as he is now at 63.

Younger: Brooke Shields

Older: Kathleen Turner before all her medical issues took their toll

Honestly, I think both were based mostly on the nose and roundish face.

When I was younger, older guys told me I looked like Troy Donahue. I wasn't altogether sure who Troy Donahue was (I was born in 1966), but I knew to be flattered because I knew he once was a teen idol.

Now I'm older I get Alex Jennings, who played Prince Charles in "The Queen" and the Duke of Windsor in "The Crown." He's nearly ten years older than I am, and much more wrinkled and saggy, but I see the resemblance.

In my 20s-30s, people often said I looked and acted like Richard Dreyfuss in Goodbye Girl.

Laura Hope Crews

(Aunt Pitty Pat)

When I was younger, I got Edward Norton from Fight Club. I was okay with that, though I wished it was American History X's version.

A few years after that, though, I got Harland Williams. Since he's not a household name, I've linked a pic below, but he was in "Half Baked" as the guy who killed the horse and went to jail. And yeah, I found that insulting. But sadly, not that inaccurate.

Now, I look even worse and I can't think of any 'celebrity' I look like.

Younger: Jon Benet of Boulder Older: Stephanie Powers of television’s Hart to Hart

I have gotten two since I was about 16 (32 now). Owen Wilson. Or Kurt Cobain. I know. Very different. But I get those both a lot.

I get Kirsten Dunst a lot. Occasionally I get Jodie Foster or Michelle Pfeiffer

Dude, you got a Dell!

JFK Jr.

Sugartits- who is way fucking older and that hurts on so many levels.

Whenever I visit the USA someone tells me that I look like Vince Gill. The first time was at least twenty years ago - I looked him up (never heard of him) and wasn’t insulted if not exactly flattered.

Nowadays I’m not so sure.

I also regularly get mistaken for a catholic priest when I’m in Boston and NYC, but he’s not famous. This has happened a couple of times in both those cities. People refuse to believe that I’m not him until I start speaking.

some people, even an ex boyfriend have said Emile Hirsch —but I don’t know.

At a subway near work downtown a girl always called me Matt Smith. I thought it was funny since I’m 5’10” with dark hair and hazel eyes. 😆

R52

When I'm a blonde I usually get Brad Pitt or Ryan Phillippe but when I go darker most people say Tom Cruise or Chris Evans. Personally I think I look more like a young Cary Grant. I think it's mostly just the class and charisma I present.

[quote] Personally I think I look more like a young Cary Grant.

No one because actors who are 6s aren't really super famous, but I do remind myself of Daniel Brühl now and then, I guess.

r53 You do look like the famed abuser and woman beater Emile Hirsch.

r53 is very cute. He doesn't look like fug Emile Hirsch.

R56 🤣

I really can’t brlive he is still working. Metoo was a couple of years to come when he stomped that girl down drunkenly at Sundance. He only did about 30 days for it too IIRC.

r57 Very cute but I'm such a plant queen, I glazed over the selfies and went straight to inspecting the stunning flora on display. 😊

What a delightful break from regular Insta that was.

R59 thank you. And I agree that when I go to page and it’s jothing but selfies I already think they may not bring that much to the table and be self-centered.

I like IG because you can share your interest and hobbies and get feedback if you have a question.

I’m really working hard on the garden. I have about 200 crocus and 50 allium to plant thanksgiving.

he looks like Daniel bruhl r56

[quote]And I agree that when I go to page and it’s nothing but selfies I already think they may not bring that much to the table and be self-centered.

Thank you for saying this, it's how I think too.

does that mean you look like Alan Bennett too? R43

I was told I resembled Bond-era Timothy Dalton back in the day.

Also, the guy who played the doctor on Queer as Folk, who I still don't know who that was and haven't gone looking.

a college friend of mine looked a lot like mickey rouke before all the plastic surgery...he was very hot. and a local actress even tried to sleep with him

I'm told I look like Osama bin Laden.

Brooke Shields. Her face is a little bit butch/strong and mine’s a little femme, so we kind of meet in the middle.

My cousin once told me I look like a black Sarah Michelle Gellar. I still don't know how to respond to that.

Conan O’Brien

George Reeves

Mr. Impossible

My friends often said my late mom (back when I was a kid) looked like Hope Lange, from The Ghost And Mrs. Muir TV series that was big at the time. And she did.

Then? Wil Shriner or his soap star brother, Kin. Flattering, but probably undeserved.

These days? Alec Baldwin. Unflattering, but deserved.

Wil Shrinier cute. Aged well, too.

*Shriner. *was cute

I always had a thick head of hair, and was compared to George Michael.

Dad says I’m the best price of ass on this continent. I got it from him of course. My poor Central European mother was little more than my incubator.

When I was younger, I got Alison Sweeney and once Christina Applegate.

Just a few days ago, I got “Bridget Jones.”

I’m neutral on all of them. Applegate was flattering, but it was some old drunk toothless man who told me, so I took it with a major grain of salt.

Then: Henry Winkler as Fonzie Now: Rick Bayless

Kyle Secor, both when I was younger and as I've aged. I've always found the comparison very flattering, as he's tall and beautiful (much better looking than me, IMO). I just did have to start wearing glasses, whereas he usually wore them when acting (not sure about in real life).

Usually I heard Jeff Daniels or Dave Coulier but once I heard Nick Nolte.

Like Allison Williams r67?

Dorian Gray when younger, and many years later, strangely, it's still Dorian Gray...

George Michael all the fucking time....

Corky

I love that some of you don't realize that people are being kind when they make such comments.

Younger me: nobody

Older me (when I had a beard): Gerard Butler in one of his chunkier phases

[quote] I love that some of you don't realize that people are being kind when they make such comments.

R84 Guess you haven't really thought it through. Numerous random, unrelated people aren't all likely to tell you you look like the same person, in order to be "kind".

When I was a sophomore--junior in high school people said I looked like Lynda Carter/Wonder Woman.

In high school, my civics/sportsball coach teacher (one of those types that only reads out of the teacher's edition of the textbook and asks the bold font questions to "teach" his class, then hurries back to sportsball practice) had the poster below hanging in the classroom, so I looked at her image frequently. The comparison was indeed flattering as hell. She had a slamming body and her face & hair were beautiful. She still looks fucking gorgeous and for me that shit has totally faded. One person I met a few years ago mentioned I reminded her of LC and I laughed pretty hard.

Now I resemble myself.

I hate when the picture doesn't just show up. Trying again.

Being told you looked like the "Wonder Woman"-era Lynda Carter was quite a compliment.

[quote]Guess you haven't really thought it through. Numerous random, unrelated people aren't all likely to tell you you look like the same person, in order to be "kind".

You missed the point. Probably on purpose. People are not going to tell strangers that they look like someone ugly. So they pick out a slight similarity and than upgrade you with a compliment.

People always used to tell me I looked like Tom Cruise. I assume it was because of my nose, not because I actually look like him.

Younger me got Barbi Benton a lot, also Betty Page ( I was lucky to have done some modeling with Bunny Yeager who noticed a resemblance) and Lynda Carter ( a temporary coworker got a little creepy telling me over and over how much I resembled her)

Now: Delta Burke

R90 I've told people that thy look like people who aren't conventionally attractive - not as an insult though. It was never taken badly.

You missed the point. Probably on purpose. People are not going to tell strangers that they look like someone ugly. So they pick out a slight similarity and than upgrade you with a compliment.

People always used to tell me I looked like Tom Cruise. I assume it was because of my nose, not because I actually look like him.

I didn't miss the point, I thought it was a stupid point, and this didn't change my mind.

Maybe you were a special case and strangers wanted to be kind to you and tell you you look like Tom Cruise when you didn't. I can't imagine why they would, though.

A few years ago I was at a bar in a restaurant with two women friends (I'm a guy). The bartender who served us looked a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio. We noted the resemblance, among ourselves, then we told him. Not because we were trying to be KIND, but because he LOOKED like Leonardo DiCaprio. He seemed happy and said people told him that a lot but he never got tired of hearing it. Why the hell would we have focused on some single facial feature and told him he looked like someone if he didn't? Why would we waste our time? To be kind? That's really an incredibly weird take, in my opinion.

Sorry, folks. Replying to R90, I meant to use the quote feature.

[quote] You missed the point. Probably on purpose. People are not going to tell strangers that they look like someone ugly. So they pick out a slight similarity and than upgrade you with a compliment.

People always used to tell me I looked like Tom Cruise. I assume it was because of my nose, not because I actually look like him.

I've always been told Richard Dryfuss,...but yesterday someone said I looked like Mel Brooks. I was NOT happy.

I used to get Zachary Quinto all the time when I was younger solely because of having big eyebrows. Now I get Oscar Isaac mostly, which I don't see but apparently everyone else does?

People always tell me I look like Oscar The Grouch. I think I need to wax my eyebrows.

Mel Gibson

Alan Alda, both when I was younger and when I was older. From a lot of different people. As recently as a week ago.

I used to get Tom Cruise a lot, but in the past few years I've been told numerous times that I look like Armie Hammer.

I don't think those two look that much alike, do you?

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A friend of mine was told she looked like Paula Poundstone, and she almost had a fucking nervous breakdown.

I'd never been told I looked like a celebrity, and then in the course of a year I was told I looked like Donny Osmond by three different people. I got it, I didn't like it, but I grudgingly came to terms with it. Then one day, while boarding. Plane a woman stopped me and asked "Oh my god! Do you know who you look like?!?" I held my breath and replied, annoyed, "Yea, Donny Osmond."

She said, "No! You look just like Leonardo DiCaprio,"

"What? Wow. I'll take that I guess," I said.

"Yeah! You look just like him in that movie 'Gilbert Grape'"

"You mean I look like a RETARDED Leonardo DiCaprio?"

All the flight attendants and half of first class heard it and started rolling.

When I was young I was told I looked like Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock (but without the pointy ears).

R104, you sound just my type. 🖖

As my uncle aged into his 60s and 70s he developed an uncanny resemblance to Henry Fonda, to the point that strangers would regularly stop him in the street and ask for his autograph. He declined most of the time but on occasion he would wink at my aunt and scribble out ‘Best wishes, Henry Fonda.’ Now here is a funny/appalling thing — this went on for years after Henry Fonda had died.

^ My grandfather used to get mistaken for Humphrey Bogart

Younger, Antonio Banderas. I didn't see it then, but was flattered nonetheless. Now that we're both older, I see similarities though my complexion is a bit lighter.

R89---I KNOW! It was a little embarrassing because she was such hot shit and I was definitely more average looking. I wouldn't have said it of myself at the time.