Has anyone told you that you looked like someone famous? If so, who was the famous person?

People constantly say I look like a female version of Lillian Hellman.

I’ve been “accused” of being a former reality tv show star but people can’t remember my name or which show I was on or which year or which network or what the show was about….

Does this happen to everyone? It’s pretty annoying.

When I was younger I got a haircut that was a little bit pompadour, and had several people (including strangers) say I looked like Wally on Leave it to Beaver. This was mid-late 80s. I also had some old lady in a hospital tell me I looked like Lance from Falcon Crest but I think she was on heavy medication. I did not look like him, although Tony Dow I can see.

Many different people over the years. The latest was last week when I was told I resembled Ben Affleck.

Early 90s, a friend thought I looked like Matthew Modine. Early-to-mid 2010s, a different friend said Adam Driver.

R4 do you look bloated and bisexual?

And what did you do with the body of this ‘different friend’ of the early to mid-2010s, R5?

Someone told me that I looked like that McGyver actor but I think a lot of guys look like him.

Back in Christopher Reeve’s heyday, I would get almost daily comparisons.

I have been told I look like dwayne johnson "the rock", elvis, tom hanks, vince vaughn, and some mexican soap opera actor...

here's the thing, NONE OF THESE people look like each other! lol! So how in the hell can I look like any of them?

strange how people see you...

Gerard Butler.

Tom Brady. I don’t see the resemblance, but I’ve been told this several times.

R9 in a chair on a respirator?

Yes, R10. I've been told I look like Jack Wagner, Matthew Broderick and Tom Cruise, who look nothing alike and nothing like me.

Even though people mention "looks", they often mean "impression" R10. I was once told I looked like Richard Dreyfuss from The Goodbye Girl. When probed, the person said he really meant Dreyfuss' on-screen personality in the movie.

Back when "The Boy From Oz" was on Broadway, someone told me that I looked like Peter Allen. They didn't mention Hugh Jackman. Back then, I was hurt that I didn't look like Hugh. 15 years later, I'm grateful.

Given Datalounge, I'm going to go out on a limb and posit that Nathan Lane and Harvey Fierstein come up a lot.

Eric Stonestreet too.

A complete stranger came up to me once and told me I looked like Leonardo DiCaprio. I’d never heard that comparison before so I asked her, “Really?”

“Yes! You look just like him in the Gilbert Grape movie!” she replied.

“Sooooo…. You think I look like a *retarded* Leonardo DiCaprio?!”

She then held her tongue and walked away.

My black co-worker was an aspiring dancer. She was once told by a customer that she looked JUST like Janet Jackson.

She did NOT take it as a compliment. This was around 2000

A member of my court had the audacity to tell me that I looked like the piss boy. I retorted, "Well you look like a bucket of shit!"

I wonder if famous people ever get told they look like themselves.

Robert Urich, especially when "Spenser for Hire" was being filmed in Boston, where I worked.

In college in the 80s, a few said I looked like Val Kilmer. As I fattened up, lost hair, and replaced contact lenses with glasses, I started to get Drew Cary. Documents my precipitous drop in gay value as I have aged.

I've been told I look like Jim Nabors. Also compared to Lance Bass. I don't consider either of those comparisons as compliments.

I was in an Atlantic City casino, at a slot machine. A lady asked if me if I was Howie Mandel. I am bald. I resemble him.

Back when he was an active player I would to get Troy Aikman a lot. I’m younger than him, so I guess I looked like a younger version of him.

I used to be told I looked like Alan Alda, which did NOT please me at all.

[R21], here's. a wonderful story about Lee Remick, who was once told: "You look just like Lee Remick!" "Why, I am," she replied. "I thought so," said the stranger. "She's so pretty!"

My hair turns white blond in the summer. I always get Owen Wilson. When it is less white blond I get Robert Redford a bunch. Last week a lady in the supermarket walked up to me holding her phone with a pic of Redford back in his hood says and said “I am sorry to bother you but you look exactly like Robert Redford — the actor”.

Thank god she clarified him as “the actor”.

^ his good days. Lol

I've been chased down and asked if I was David Arquette. I've been told I look like him so many times I can't count. I was flipping through tv channels and got a little freaked because I thought I saw *myself* sitting at a counter in a movie before I realized it was David Arquette.

One time in a bar, a drunk guy was slurring something about me being Dewey and I couldn't understand him. And a friend laughed and told me, he thinks you're David Arquette. I told the drunk guy, hey thanks, I'm not actually David Arquette and he spun around and said/slurred (shouted) "Don't fucking lie to me, you Dewey fucking motherfucker!"

I moved to DC and had a weird incident where I was riding my bike with my boyfriend and a friend of his was standing outside a restaurant and waved at us. I was about to pop my bike up onto the curb (something I've done a million times) and between waving back and trying to jump the curb, I missed badly and crashed into a parked car and left a David Arquette shaped dent in the trunk. I was dripping blood and the owner came out and I apologized and she said it was ok, but I wrote down my name and number and told her to contact me and I'd pay for the repairs. She never did, but afterwards, the friend told us when they went back in the restaurant after we'd left, the woman said "I think David Arquette just crashed into my car". I guess she didn't read the note with my name and number.

It's amusing to me, but sometimes I get why celebrities don't like the attention they get. Not that it was exhausting for me, but it's weird when someone you don't know thinks they know who you are and asks to take a picture with you (which has happened). I've posed for pics with people and *not* told them I wasn't David Arquette! I've never been asked to sign an autograph though.

[quote]A complete stranger came up to me once and told me I looked like Leonardo DiCaprio.

In DC in the late 1990's there was a Starbucks barista that was the SPITTING IMAGE of Leonardo DiCaprio and everyone called Leonardo DiCappuccino. They did a local news story on him and he attended a local special showing of Titanic as the guest of honor.

Over the years, I've gotten Dennis Christopher and David Bowie (in my very skinny1980s) and Jeff Bridges (1990s, when I was a bit beefier). But those were just "you look like" moments and not full-on mistaken identity.

I think I posted this here once before...

Most frequently of all, I got compared to musician Marshall Crenshaw. I didn't even know who he was the first time it happened. I had a star-struck fan moment, when this guy walked up to me gushing something like "Oh my God, I LOVE your music."

I smiled and asked who he thought I was and told him he was mistaken, which he didn't buy. I said something like "ok, you got me" and he and his buddy walked off and I heard the guy excitedly say "Dude, we just met Marshall Crenshaw!"

Since this was pre-Google, I had to visit a record store to see if this [likely drunk] fan was delusional, but I really did look a lot like this singer (and still do, somewhat).

I have was told that I like look Princess Diana, which is odd. I do have blue eyes and I am thin, but otherwise I just never saw a resemblance.

Richard Gere when we both had dark hair. And "a young Jeremy Irons." I don't see any but the broadest similarity in either case. Maybe a tiny resemblance in presence or posture with Jeremy Irons - as if we had been at the same school together, had we been the same age and from the same part of the world.

Neither of those is common, but people do say fairly often that my voice sounds like Donald Sutherland's. Again, any resemblance us lost on me but I take that one as a compliment as he does have a good voice.

I once got "you look like Tom Cruise..!" from a nervous twink who I think was flirting with me, years ago.

I didn't miss a beat and said thank you like some model who hears stuff like that all the time and just kept walking. I was too spooked over being hit on in public.

Now I wish I'd checked him out in turn.

I once got told I looked like a skinnier Jewish version of George Michael. Also, young Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys).

As a teen in the 70s I was constantly told I looked like Henry Winkler. I didn't see it at the time. But now, seeing old photos from the 70s, I can see it. Somewhat. At certain angles.

I fluctuate between Matin Mull and Burl Ives

Martin Mull

A fellow Dark Shadows fan said that I looked like Joanna Going, who played Victoria Winters in the 90s reboot. She later said that she wanted to have plastic surgery to look like Ms. Going, which bothered me for obvious reasons. The woman ended up in a mental hospital and now lives on disability at her dad's place.

The Reeve/s, Chris & Keanu.

I love the story of late actress Fran Ryan being asked if she was Marjorie Main and responding, "Yes, and I died 20 years ago!"

Years ago when I was in college a customer in the book store I worked in told me I reminded her of that actor in Mouse Hunt. I stared at her blankly until she added that he was also in The Birdcage and then it clicked that she meant Nathan Lane. I must have looked shocked because she hastened to assure me that I she didn't mean I looked like him, I just reminded her of him. So, in other words, she was calling me a queen! Given that I have never been obviously gay, I am still a bit confounded by the whole thing.

Peter Billingsley in "A Christmas Story". A teacher on our floor in middle school called me "Red Rider" after the gun he carried. I definitely looked like him, glasses and everything. Even now as an adult, people say the same thing on occasion.

I also got very early 1980s James Spader once. I didn't agree.

Keiner Sutherland, by multiple people.

Oh, also Ricky Schroeder, when I was a teenager.

Yes, many people, who don't even look like each other, so it's a bit confusing. IIRC, full list: Montgomery Clift, Tony Perkins, Sean Connery, Lambert Wilson, Brad Pitt, Daniel-Day Lewis, James Dean; I mean, it's very flattering, but makes no sense.

I had a friend who looked just like Matt Dillon. This was in the 1980s era of Rebel, Outsiders, Flamingo Kid, so he was a big deal. It was in Southern California, so for starstruck teen girls, it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that he really was Matt.

We were at the movies once and the girls seated behind us kept whispering and lightly squealing "it really is HIM, isn't it?" He turned around and smiled and extended his hand, "Hi, I'm Matt."

Robert Downey Jr, it has been confirmed from coast to coast.

I remember a personals ad in New York magazine in the 1980s that started "Female Malcolm Forbes lookalike seeks..." and I wondered who would answer such an ad.

When I was younger I used to hear Robert Downey , Jr all the time. Recently, I was told I look a bear version of George Clooney which I just heard as “you’re fat”.

hen I was younger, a cross between David Bowie and a young Mick Jagger (the lips)...by my 40s, Jon Bon Jovi circa late 90s

As a fat faced frau with thin eyebrows and deep set eyes, I've been compared to the Mona Lisa a couple of times. One person added "but much prettier!" to take the sting out, but it's not the most encouraging. Ah, well

Matthew McCoughnahey (I can't spell it), Liam Neeson,

And Duff fucking McKagan when I was hungover in a Taco Bell with longish hair and aviators.

Bart Simpson: "Lisa, blonde GUYS aren't dumb. They're just evil. Like in The Karate Kid, or World War II".

Tom Cruise, multiple times.

Later in life, Patrick Warburton on occasion.

R54 you do sound pretty tbh! The fashion rn is for very bushy brows and thyroidy eyes, but that doesn't mean that is the objective all-time beauty standard.

Like I'm a babyfaced lesbian who gets facially compared to Alyson Hannigan, Kristen Schaal, and Harry Styles, all plain fugly contemporary people with rodentine looks and fake personalities. Would rather be compared to a figure of classical art!

I’ve been told I resemble Roseanne Barr’s second face

^ And I’ve been told I look like the third face of Eve.

Yes, several years ago a couple stopped me and asked for my autograph saying I was Michael Douglas. When I told them I was not, they very belligerently yelled at me saying just because I was a movie star, I should be nicer to fans.

^ We celebrity doppelgangers carry quite a burden.

Back when Terminator was in theaters I had a few people mention Michael Biehn. I didn't know who he was, but I sort of see it 40 years later.

And not famous but people always ask me, "Do you work here?" Not the same but it always makes me laugh.

Back in my mid 20s a famous person (well, sort of famous, Mike Nelson) told me I looked just like Matthew Broderick on more than one occasion. Flattering, but I think he needed to get his eyes checked. The celebrity I most resembled when younger and thinner was Jon Cryer.

I forgot the most recent one -- a guy in a gas station asked me if I was Anthony Kiedis.

He appeared to be inebriated, which he'd have to be, since the only resemblance is hair and eye color.

Joe Pesci.

When I was in my 20s in the 70s I used to be mistaken for Rick Springfield.

I don't look like anyone, but my dad was an exact duplicate of Ted Turner in the '80s. He would get stopped by people in the airport all the time.

I had a friend who looked so much like Jamie Lee Curtis that she got pestered every day.

R67 were the people stopping your Dad mostly pro-wrestlers wanting severance pay?

Over the years I’ve had many people, mostly strangers, tell me that I look like Laurence Olivier, Christoper Plummer or Peter Scolari. Moons ago in NYC I had a gaggle of girls follow me around town thinking I was some soap actor. Oh, I was once mistaken for a model as I was leaving a fancy party given by some clothes designer in the West Village. “Are you going to Milan for the season”? I responded with “No, I’m staying here for some print work”. Betty Buckley was getting off the elevator when all this transpired. I’m not sure if she told me to “move it along, toots” or not.

R27, Alan Alda is very handsome. Of course, I'm a fan. His father, Robert, was very handsome, as well.

R27, Nor us.

When I was about 5, in the 70s, my dad was the spitting image of George Harrison. Possibly intentionally. He had long brown hair and a beard, he's always been an obsessive Beatles fan, and was in a band with two neighbors. They actually recorded a cover of (I forget which) some Beatles song and I had it on a 45.

So I went to kindergarten and said "My dad is in the Beatles!" And kids and adults would ask ask "oh yeah, which one?" And I'd proudly say "Jonathan Miller!" (Not his real name, but you get the idea).

Armie

Reality check. You all look like old Raymond burr or Richard Simmons

[quote] So, in other words, she was calling me a queen! Given that I have never been obviously gay, I am still a bit confounded by the whole thing.

We'd all like to think that we can keep our identities under wraps, but people do pick up on things.

I’ve been followed around and asked if people could take photos with me because they think I’m Ryan Reynolds. Like others here, when I protest that I’m not, I’m told some variation of “you should be nicer to your fans” or “thought you’d be cool.” I see the resemblance and admit it’s strong but my hair is dark chestnut and I’m thin, not of an athletic Deadpool build. We do have similar voices and mannerisms. I used to be annoyed by it because I found him goofy, but as I get older, I’m pleased by the comparison.

Humblebrag from OP

Regrettably, Matthew Broderick.

Someone once asked me if I was Dave Gahan. I am much taller than him, we have dark hair.

Others think I look like a mix of elvis and james dean.

I have gotten Christina Applegate and Elizabeth Rohm.

I've been told both Pope Benedict XVI and Mindy Cohn from "The Facts of Life."

In the 90’s and 00’s I was told by a variety of old people that I looked exactly like Anne Baxter, back in the day.

R77, So, you're cross eyed and have gay voice?

Patti Hansen (Keith Richard’s wife) Sharon stone and the skier Lindsay Von. but all time fav was a bum in nyc said Warren Beatty and my Aunt in all seriousness said she’d recently seen Warren and I most certainly did not resemble him!

A coworker and his wife said a Soapdish-era RDJ.

Several times I've been told I look like Viggo Mortenson

I am often told I look like a young Brad Pitt-sburgh, the hobo found dead under the Chatham University Athletic Field bleachers in 1973.

Paul Walker. It was a running joke among my family and friends

When he died, the amount of fake RIP texts I received was silly. And inappropriate.

(Yes, I was genetically blessed until my late 30s. Then it went downhill. Fast.)

Nic Cage/Jerry Seinfeld

Ryan O’Neal

I THINK it was a compliment.

Simon LeBon and Andrew Mccarthy(?)

Then someone told me I looked like Zack G. right before he got more famous. I had no idea who he was and looked and was like, "yes, a bit!"

Genealogy is a hobby and I looked his up. His mom's mom shares my surname...so, yeah probably related. I stopped there though.

Twice I was told I looked like Jim Morrison (The Doors).

I've been told several times (when much younger) that I resembled Antonio Banderas. I always took it as a compliment, but never did quite see such a strong resemblance. At the time, we did have similar ponytails, and complexions however.

So has anyone here been told they resembled an unattractive person?

Other than the male version of Lillian Hellman? 😂

R27, Strangers have stopped me on the street to tell me I look like the young Alan Alda. Obviously there must be a resemblance even if I don't think there is.

I've been told I bore a good likeness to a younger Jeremy Irons (he's about 10 years older than I am), especially when I was in my thirties and forties (other than eye color - my eyes are green/gray and his are brown). . But I don't smoke and I stay out of the sun for the most part, so I have to say that my current looks don't match his trajectory as he and I have both continued aging. I do think we could pass as cousins however. My younger brother was a dead ringer for Hugh Laurie, (they're the same age) and when House was on the air, it was freaky to watch it, because he looked so much like my brother and even sounded a bit like him when using an American accent. Now they no longer look as much like one another as previously.

R96 You MUST be very handsome then; I would imagine. Alda was quite the looker when he was in his prime.

Wow, a lot of us get RDJ! I have been getting that for well over 20 years. I once had a receptionist almost fall out of her chair when she looked up and saw me. Apparently RDJ was her favorite actor. It was pretty funny. There is a copier service guy who comes to my office every couple of months or so, and always says, “Heyyyy, Tony Stark!!!” Myself, I don’t see it.

Over the years I’ve also heard Jackson Browne, Beau Bridges, Billy Campbell, Richard Linklater, and David Gedge from the band The Wedding Present.

Desi Arnaz when I was younger and then Ray Romano when I was a little older...

Back in the early and mid 70s when I was in college, I was told constantly that I looked like Richard Thomas, who played John Boy Walton. I would walk across campus and people would say “Hi, John Boy.” Some professors mentioned it. Everyone in my dorm called me John Boy. I went to a Poppin Fresh restaurant with my parents for breakfast once, and people stopped at our table and asked for my autograph. My parents didn’t understand what was going on. I told them and they burst out laughing. But they both admitted I did look a lot like him, they just never realized it before.

At the end of the school year, some of the guys who lived on my floor in the dorm finally asked me what my real name was, because they only knew me as John Boy.

Today, I look like a Louie Anderson in a slenderizing caftan.

I always get Pierson Fode or David Corenswet

I would get a young Keanu Reeves or David Duchovny when I was younger. Then Justin Long. More recently, I’ve got Adam Driver (they always qualify it with a “better looking” because they know it’s an insult). My celebrity lookalikes are getting progressively uglier, so I can’t imagine what’s next.

I did get Shawn Mendes three years ago at a wedding, which I don’t see at all but took as a compliment.

R79 ok but which era Matthew Broderick?

Because 1980s-90s Matthew looked adorable.

R94 wins the thread imo.

Roger Federer. Also, Quentin Tarantino. One pretty drunk fellow stumbled up to me on New Year Eve, outside of the Regency Hotel, yelling “Yo Quentin! My Main Man!!!”. He was so plastered I didn’t know what to do, so I kept walking. I could hear him yelling after me “Oh, so it’s Like THAT!!!”

I know a young guy who is an exact double for Cillian Murphy, which is kind of an unusual look. I mentioned it to him and he said lots of people had told him that, but he didn't see it. I guess we all see ourselves differently than others do.

I look like Mrs. Trumble in pants!

Many years ago… The dentist character on Newhart. I went through an extreme transformation after hearing that..

When I was younger, Harrison Ford. I also got Matthew Modine a few times.

As a kid Anne Frank.

As an adult Maria de Madeiros (pancakes from Pulp Fiction)

More recently I was told Ludovica Francesconi looks like me crossed with a squirrel.

I think the first two are fair, not sure about that last one.

Chipmunk, not squirrel

The woman who plays new Counsellor of State, Princess Beatrice on channel 4 satirical comedy THE WINDSORS.

But I don’t look much like the real Bea at all.

[quote]Twice I was told I looked like Jim Morrison (The Doors).

R93 I think we all know Jim Morrison but thank you for adding (The Doors). Someone posted upthread about being recognized as Robert Redford (the actor).

[quote]So has anyone here been told they resembled an unattractive person?

R95 Yes, but she was a sweet, sweet man-ish lady.

I understand the posts about being recognized as multiple doppelgangers who have no similarity to each other. You have one attribute the observer zeroes in on -- hair, eyes, lips, body type. I imagine it would be fun to put those attributes together and see if it resembles you.

In high school - Peter Strauss

20 years ago - Thomas Gibson

10 years ago - Swayze

Woody Harrelson

From 20-35 - black people said I looked like Jim Carrey and white people said I looked like Keanu Reeves.

So it was a bit of a wash.

Yea, Woody Allen.

When I was a teenager I got my hair cut short. I thought I looked a bit like Sigourney Weaver. Nah! My (late) mother said I looked like a young Sal Mineo and to please never get my hair cut that short again.

In my mid twenties I flew out from Barranquilla to Miami. Over at the airport in Miami there were employees who mistook me for Phoebe Cates even though I am a great deal taller than her. Apparently she went on vacation in Miami a good two days before I got off the plane and such. The airport employees thought I was her and that made me feel cool once I learned who they were speaking of.

I look nothing like Phoebe Cates by the way. Maybe a little bit like that Sal Mineo, though.

Australian tennis player Pat Cash.

People constantly tell me I look like Art Garfunkel's uglier twin.

Pat Ast

My father saw My Best Friend’s Wedding when it came out and then promptly told me the Rupert Everett character reminded him of me. I was annoyed at the time because I fancied myself more of a Dermot Mulroney.

Ashley Judd, Leslie Caron, Hilary Swank, Natalie Wood, Claudia Schiffer, and kris Jenner when I got my hair cut. I grew my hair back after the last one.

Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister.

R126 What color was your hair during the Schiffer phase? I’m trying to visualize the Claudia Schiffer / Teutonic blonde but I can’t see past her Elke Sommer surface.

When I was young, Shane West, Orlando Bloom, Neil Patrick Harris, Johnny Hazard and Austin Scarlett (from Project Runway), all from multiple people. I think it's interesting that they're all rather different but I do see some resemblances among all of them. My face is shaped like and my features' placements are almost exactly the same as Orlando Bloom's, but he's a lot more attractive because he has better skin, better teeth and my nose is slightly bulbous. But our noses are bent to the left in exactly the same way, we have similar mouths with thin lips and our eyes are spaced exactly the same distance apart. My eyes are light blue-gray and arguably may be prettier, but he certainly is a league beyond me overall. I have an NPH forehead and our eyes are similar, but I think people have compared me to him mainly because he's gay and it just comes to mind as a big-headed white gay guy. My hair is dark like Shane West's and Johnny Hazzard and I guess I resembled them from certain angles but overall different face shapes and features. When I was very young, late teens-22 or so, I was pretty emaciated and I did look similar to Austin Scarlett, too my horror at the time because he's so fey, but looking back I'm fine with it. He's unusual looking but kind of striking in his unique way.

More recently, Tom Hiddleston, just one person, and I totally see it. His jaw is not square and mine is, and we have quite different eyes, but somehow the overall appearance is very similar. If I had a brother, he might look just like Hiddleston. Wouldn't be my choice, but c'est la vie!

I used to be so self-conscious about how I look and would cringe anytime anyone compared me to someone, but now I am pretty detached and accept that we all just look how we look and there's no kind of value associated with it. My Ancestry DNA shows I am entirely from NW Europe, primarily around the North Sea, and so of course I'm going to look like average white guys from the same background. It's just genetics.

A couple of times, I was told I looked like Jodie Foster. I can't see it. That was when I was younger....definitely not now.

As a teenager, I was told I looked like Peggy Lipton. I had the ubiquitous (sp) long blonde hair....parted in the middle..lol.

I had at least five people completely unrelated to one another saying that I look like Edward Norton.

OP thanks for the laugh!

Oh, no joke, about 10 years ago, a coworker came into my office and said, "You look like that actor. What's his name? From Titanic!"

I just stared at her. I don't look anything like Leonardo DiCaprio. I was wondering if she might have meant Victor Garber.

"LEONARDO DICAPRIO!"

I said no. I don't.

"YES! YOU LOOK JUST LIKE HIM!"

And then the next day, she walked into my office and yelled, "I just found out I have CATARACTS and need EYE SURGERY!"

Kevin Spacey, and not just a few times. But I also used to get Bill Murray quite often. Guess it's the (lack of) hair.

In the 90s, I got Billy Campbell a lot. I wish! On my best day I was never as handsome as him.

Now that we are both gray and bearded, I’ve heard it a couple of times again.

Can you imagine if anyone ever told you you look like Eric Trump or Kellyanne Conway or Stephen Miller or Steve Bannon?

Hey, faggots. A friend used to say that I looked like Matt Damon.

Not a celebrity but I frequently get asked by strangers “Do I know you? You look very familiar.” I always thought they meant I looked like a famous person until once after I replied “No I don’t think so” the person said “well you have a very common face.”

Robert Urich

r21, yes- I have 2 actress friends where it happens all the time. They'll try to shrug it off, saying, "Oh I get that all the time", but if it's a true fan that is persistent, they'll cop to being who they are.

In the 80's, I got Sade and Jody Watley In the 90's, I got Tiger Woods and Donna Karan In the aughts, Sandra Oh

R139 Which one are you?

They ones that I remember mist clearly are Joyce DeWitt and Jackie O.

I had just gotten a short haircut and I was sitting in some diner on the UWS and someone told me I looked like Joyce DeWitt and I had never heard of her.

I was in the backseat of a limo wearing sunglasses and a bunch of kids started screaming it was Jakie O! I was both embarrassed and amused.

[R128] That was during my blonde phase, and it was based on those Guess Jeans campaign photos. I got that comparasen a lot back in the late eighties/early nineties. My hair looked horrible and brassy, when I see old photos I’m embarrassed to have had such bad judgement. I’m a dark brunette. Oh, I’ve gotten Raquel Welch too. The common denominator is a big mouth with big teeth. As I’ve aged and gotten more jowly I have to say I think I look at a certain angle like the dreaded Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but no one has told me that but me. I’m very critical of myself and pick apart every flaw.

In my twenties I was told I looked like the then young Elvis Costello. I'm mixed and have some Asian/Native features, was slight and thin and wore big glasses so yeah. Also that was precisely the type of guys I found hawt back then (thin and nerdy) so maybe I was trying to look that way as well.

Young Elvis Costello was hawt.

Lily Tomlin. I'm a man.

A friend of mine looked like young Whitney Houston back in the day when I lived in NY. We would walk around Manhattan and people screamed “Whitney!” at her and men offered marriage proposals.

R121 You must be gorgeous. Even Sal would have made a beautiful gal if he chose to dress that way.

People tell me I look like a range of different celebrities who look nothing alike so they all kind of cancel each other out.

R140 - Robert Urich is a very nice man to resemble!

When I was twentyish, a stranger in a bar asked me if I was Sal Mineo. When I responded that Sal Mineo died many years before, he was very distressed. Oddly enough, I also was mistaken for Al Pacino during the same era. And, for the record, I’m not Italian-American but 100% Ashkenazic.

Jabba the Hut

No one person but my high cheekbones and forehead seem to disorient people and they ask me if I'm native American or the more puzzled "what are you?"

Coincidentally I think I look like Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U.S. and enthusiastic Indian killer.

Tony Danza. I was surprised, because I always thought he was hot, so I took it as a compliment.

[quote] I think we all know Jim Morrison but thank you for adding (The Doors). Someone posted upthread about being recognized as Robert Redford (the actor).

Someone I know who worked at a hotel years ago once took a call from Ann Miller. She identified herself by saying, "Hello, the is Ann Miller. [Pause.] The dancer?"

Surprised so many people have been compared to Robert Downey, Jr. I used to get it all the time from when I was in college to my late 20s. And then I gained a bunch of weight and that stopped for a while until I lost it. And now I have long hair so I never hear it.

Once I was actually recognized as myself and it freaked me the fuck out. I was having dinner out with a couple friends and I see this guy look at me from across the restaurant and then start heading right for me with a determined look in his eye. I swear I thought I was being served with papers (even though there was no reason to be). He comes right up to the table and says- I'm sorry, are you X? I very reluctantly admitted so, and he says, I saw your movie last year and I really liked it, blah blah blah.

Now I am certainly not famous or even terribly well known, and outside of film festivals, where one is visible and interacting with filmgoers, I never get approached. He was very polite and complimentary, but I was so unnerved by it, I'm afraid i wasn't terribly talkative (though not rude). the whole rest of the evening, I kept accusing my two friends of putting the guy up to it as a gag, but they did not. I just did not like the experience at all. I'm approached all the time on social media, but there are obvious barriers there, and this was very different. The only other time something like this happened was that I got a very scary, creepy "fan" letter from someone sent to my home. I have no idea how they got my home address, and it was very upsetting. It wasn't even about me, per se, but about the characters in some of my work, and it just went on and on for pages of handwritten insanity. Never heard from them again, thank god.

I don't know how celebrities handle it. I think it would drive me crazy. But I have also never had any desire to be famous.

Adam & Eve

When I was in my 20s - 30s I was told several times that I looked either like Donny Osmond or Sal Mineo. In my 50s I am told I look like Ralph Macchio, which I have to admit I actually do.

A lot of Sal Mineo doppelgängers on DL.

Oh yeah, that’s right, my Mom told me I reminded her of Sal too when I was a teenager.

My grandma told me that I looked like an asshole. I told her that she looks like a giant raisin with an Arby’s roast beef pussy

I was told I look like Alec Baldwin. I'm sure he meant present day so I said, thank you young man, if this were 1989 I'd be very flattered.

A shoeshine man asked if I was Martin Scorsese.

Nana Mouskouri.

Carol Channing

r129 I can't with you. A 200 word "Ode to my Face."

Yvonne Elliman.

I've gotten many and some of them have been very flattering and others have made me cringe, but very few of them seem to look alike which always confuses me. How can I possibly remind others of all these wildly different people? Within the same week, I'll get called Leonardo DiCaprio, Rob Lowe, and John Ritter. All attractive guys, but they don't seem anything alike in terms of looks, personality, body type, etc.

For what it's worth, I get Billy Crudup on this app.

Thats funny r169....I ran my pic and it came up Jon Bon Jovi.....

So many people tell me I remind them of Rod LaRocque, but I can't see it.

That's a weird app. First of all, they crop your picture to leave out most of the forehead, and to me that's a fairly significant part of how you see someone's face. I used two different pictures - most of my matches were in the 30% range. Got Martin Sheen, Jack Palance, Bruce Hendricks, David Morrissey, and someone named Gennady Timchencko twice. The second go-round I got Justin Trudeau added to that and a few others dropped off. Since none of those people look like one another to me, and no one has ever accused me of looking like any of them, I'm going to cry foul on the app....LOL

I’ve gotten Charlie Day and Post Malone—not sure how I feel about either of those lol

I got aly sheedy and I’m really offended. I look nothing like her, she’s got a big doughy face. I also got Sophia Vergara which is better but I don’t look like her either.

When I was young, Christopher Atkins. At middle age, Robert Reed. Now, Marty Feldman. I'm not making this up.

When I was younger, a couple of people told me I looked like Michael Landon. My hair was about the same length as his at the time, so I guess that's why. Otherwise, I never really understood that.

Gillian Anderson.

R177 I’m assuming you’re male.

R170 Mine came up as Myrna Loy. Then I used a different photo and it said Joan Blondell.

You assumed wrong, r178.

I'm in my fifties so I've been told I looked like Tom Cruise, James Spader, Ed Helm and Mark Harmon.

I've been told that I look like George Clooney (several times), Antonio Banderas, Ray Liotta. On an airplane once, a stewardess asked me for my autograph "Mr. Liotta". Now that I'm old. I think I look more like Ray Liotta, especially as an old guy.

When I was in college, a security guard that I’d see a lot around the dorms said hello and then - you remind me of that actress! And I was immediately flattered until she said - from that show, you know Joan Collins? I wasn’t flattered even though Joan is beautiful. All I could think of was she thought I looked like an older lady from the 80s…

For a good 5 year period - every time someone said “did anyone ever tell you that you look like…” I cringed. Idk what was going on (because I don’t think I look like her at all) but at least two dozen people would then say - you look just like Katherine Heigl. I never saw it and for some reason I hated it - because I wanted to say “actually people do tell me that” and I couldn’t because I’d sound like a fucking psycho.

Also - Ashley Judd. These seem pretty random, so I doubt I resemble any of them…

I really don't look like anyone famous. I just did one of those celebrity look-alike websites and it said I was 34% like Alan Alda. I much prefer the 26% for Matt Barr - I'll take that.

Mr hanky

[quote]I understand the posts about being recognized as multiple doppelgangers who have no similarity to each other. You have one attribute the observer zeroes in on -- hair, eyes, lips, body type. I imagine it would be fun to put those attributes together and see if it resembles you.

R149 This is for you and all the other posters who have been told they look like multiple people.

I was walking up Laurel Hill Ave. about three decades ago and some bitchy girl yelled from a car "It's Norman Bates!"

Tony Bennett. Yep, I’d say so.

I was out to dinner with friends and the waiter who was a hunky young man said "has anyone told you you look like Billy Bob Thornton?'" My friends all laughed. He said "I think he is really handsome." and smiled. I slipped him my number - yeah I fucked him later.

R188 what a slam. How did you react?.

R137....If someone was told that they look like Steven Bannon....he would need to check his hygiene.

I worked in London in the 80s and looked like Rupert Everett…people were constantly staring and pointing at me, telling me how much they loved whatever crap I was supposed to have been in, and asking for my autograph, which I obligingly scribbled. It really was tiresome…I don’t know how real celebrities put up with it.

Tom Cruise, Dan Aykroyd, Jason Statham, and Ed Harris. And then once, generic famous. I only wish.

[R193] I love Ed Harris

R193 none of those actors resemble each other.

How about Ed "Has no hair-is!"

That app is ridiculous. I only get 30% matches. I put one of my better photos in and think I should have gotten at least a 60% Keanu Reeves.

Jesus Christ

James Franco and an assortment of football players, didn't even check, imagine watching that lmao

Speaking of Steve Bannon, either his doppelgänger has been living near me the last two years (and drives a black Mercedes SUV) or he’s been living near me the last two years. I don’t know which would be worse; two people in the world who look like that or being within five miles of that skank.

Liam Hemsworth, several times.

I try not to tell anyone who they look like because people are fucking weird—even if they look like Grace Kelly. But I have a colleague who resembles Patricia Neal and another Stephanie March and I have told each of them that. Neither had heard of their doubles and I don’t even think they Googled them.

I myself look like the author Michael Cunningham and numerous times at bookstores in the 1990s and 2000s staff would tell me that they “loved The Hours” or “Flesh and Blood.”

R183 My friend Kathy would get told that all the time…in 1984 when we were 16. It was funny at first but then after the 20th person hisses “Alexis!” at you, you start to wonder if you really do look like a 50 year old.

Everybody thought my ninth grade English teacher looked like Tina Cole.

R140 Nice. I met Urich and he was fucking sexy, imho way better than on screen.

When I would do drag in my 20s and 30s, several people said I looked like Brooke Shields. One of them was a makeup artist who’d worked on her. I was flattered!

This would sometimes happened to me as a teen, too (when I just had long California hair)… so I guess we have some similar features.

R206 Tell me your mother is a drunk named Teri and I’ll shit my pants!

“a fat Gerard Butler”

When I was 18, I was told a few times I looked like River Phoenix. I didn’t know what he looked like, and I never saw My Own Private Idaho until years later, then I thought, “Oh wow! I do!”

Oddly, over the last five years, a lot of people tell me I look like Keanu Reeves, at least when they see my photos. Which is odd because I’m completely white and have no Hawaiian ancestry or Asian ancestry.

R201, I want to hook up with you.

I got a ‘Baldwin Brother’ one day at Safeway and I said which one? After some ‘mmmmmm’, I said, ‘Don’t be embarrassed, it’s okay, I know which one. The fat one.’

I also would get Scott Peterson sometimes during his trial, despite being 10-15years older. I wasn’t flattered, just fatter.

I can't go anywhere without somebody coming up and saying "Aren't you Rochelle Hudson?"

I used to get "young Robert Redford" and "Brad Pitt" a lot. As I got older, I got various Chrises, Hemsworth and Pratt, mostly. Then, for years, it was Stephen King and now, almost every day, someone tells me I look like Harry Styles.

Vivian Vance

Predictably we have numerous Hemsworths and a Chris Evans or two. Where the fuck is Paul Giamatti? John Turturro? Even Ernest Fucking Borgnine? Where are you?

In the 90s, I was told by multiple people I looked like David Spade. 🤮

In my 20s, people compared me to a young Christopher Walken.

[quote] I used to get "young Robert Redford" and "Brad Pitt" a lot. As I got older, I got various Chrises, Hemsworth and Pratt, mostly. Then, for years, it was Stephen King and now, almost every day, someone tells me I look like Harry Styles.

Do you wear masks often because none of those people look remotely like each other.

Was in a long line at a state liquor store on a trip to Montreal when someone started speaking to me in French. I only understood about 75% -- which might as well have been zero%. They "recognized me," something about "on TV" and soon everyone in line was smiling and/or smirking and looking at me and joining in the conversation as I explained (in French) that my French is bad and I didn't understand what he was talking about. Canadian French is peculiar. People were shaking their heads. The man was very serious and wouldn't shut up. I assumed that they thought I was in the local news about killing various small children, from what I understood. The cashier shook my hand and said something polite. Or, was he being sarcastic? I was focused on getting my hard-earned goddamned bottle of vodka because I needed to get to my hotel room to call my partner and tell him that I knew he'd been cheating.

But people started to follow me, yelling in 75% understandable French. So, I ran, which now was like admitting guilt. Got to my hotel, which plays into the story: I had booked a fancy hotel, paid for by my employer for a conference at a discount rate. There was a fuck up, and I ended up at a new, trendy, ultra pretentious hotel with black walls, exposed plumbing, and cement floors. The stunningly handsome desk man buzzes me in, winks, and speaks to me in Greek! I am half Greek and have a Greek name. I know maybe 20 Greek words. He conveys that they will "take care of me like family". A security guy locks the lobby door to keep those weird Canadian people out. I tell them that people are chasing me and that I don't understand anything. Quiet nods. I'm convinced that the Canadian public thinks that I'm free on bail. But handsome Greek hotel guy WINKED at me! Maybe I killed a bad man?

I order room service and drink heavily, as planned. Partner never answers my calls. I am completely paranoid. The hotel provided a car and driver to get me to my conference every morning for the next 4 days. Assumed that was normal for this hotel. I wore sunglasses 24/7.

Many years later, I found out from a cousin (who happens to also be gay and is a big TV watching Queen) that to some people we both look like an obscure, Greek-Canadian actor named Elias Koteas. One of his characters was possibly a killer, or he was a cop who solved crimes, or whatever. There was also an annoying "Elias Koteas Troll" here on Datalounge who chimed in when I first told this story. I don't think I look much like him; nor do I find him attractive or worthy of mobbing. I am not mob-worthy, so this was among the most strange days of my life.

I've watched him on Youtube clips and will admit that our voice and mannerisms are similar. I do not feel flattered.

Well, I've been likened to an open can of tuna.

Does that count?

They say I am a blend of Greta Garbo, Marylin Monroe, Mae West, and Tallulah Bankhead.

Chuckie Grassley is so complementary!

I always got told I look a lot like Cary Elwes, then later it was Josh Lucas.

Say I look like Lyin’ Rafael ‘Ted” Cruz.

I knew a young Jesuit who looked like Josh O'Connor.

I knew a girl who looked liked Queen Elizabeth II. But then she died.

r190 I was a little put off until he told me he thought Billy Bob was really handsome. ;)) -

r219 well Elias has a huge cock so maybe they were after that.

Elias is hot. Here's a scene from David Cronenberg's very strange movie "Crash".

Robby Benson many times back in his heyday, then later in descending order of frequency but at least several times: Aidan Quinn, JFK Jr., Pierce Brosnan, and Joe Montana. Sadly I've aged like Aidan Quinn.

Back in the mid-1980s, someone told me that I looked like Paul McCartney. Then someone said Sylvester Stallone.

Then in the 1990s, someone said I looked like Eric Clapton.

In the 2000s, a woman thought I was Howie Mandel. I was in Atlantic City, at that time. (I mentioned this upthread.)

In 2019, I was in a boardwalk bar in Rehoboth Beach. It wasn't gay, it was mostly a straight crowd. A man wondered if I was Elvis Costello. He said I looked exactly like him.

In my thinner years, I am often mistaken for tennis sensation Steffi Graf.

Strangely, this does nothing for my male ego.

[quote] A couple of times, I was told I looked like Jodie Foster. I can't see it. That was when I was younger....definitely not now.

So are you saying now that you’re older you have stopped presenting hole on pinball machines?

Young Cary Elwes was totally, adorably fuckable R222. *sigh*

Richard Dreyfuss, sadly.

I know the feeling R234.

Apparently I look like Ray Romano

R233 After "The Princess Bride" came out in theaters, everyone in my high school was calling me 'Cary' because of how much I looked like him. My actual name is Chris.

Yes, Kevin Bacon.

And now the circle comes complete with six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

Stretching the definition of famous, but: the girl version of Youtube sports pundit Rory Jennings. But for the size of the nose and the facial hair, I could be his twin sister.

On that subject, what is his seasonal colouring? Because I've been trying to figure mine out and can't pinpoint it. Imo it's either Warm Spring or Soft Autumn, but it could also be some kind of mid/darker muted Summer?

How about a statue?

I was once told in a Y in Boca(where my parents had a condo) by an elderly woman that I looked exactly like Rodin's The Thinker and she wished she had a camera so she could take a picture of me. She seemed very happy to tell me this. Now I was in great shape and I without realizing it was sitting exactly like that statue with my chin on my fist thinking about how shitty my life was and why was I working out so much when I should really kill myself. It made me feel really guilty and annoyed that she was guilting me.

Emilio Estevez

I'm not Latin.

People said I look and sound like Ross the Intern from Jay Leno.

Often told I look like Antonio Banderas during the time he started to be noticed in the Almodovar Spanish language films years ago. Dark hair, dark eyes, dark features. I'm now 58yo, but look 40. ;-)

Several people in my family including me are told we look like the chauffeur from Downton Abbey. It’s a genetic bottleneck. My Dad looked like William Baldwin. Not a lot of phenotype variation there

So where ARE all the Nathan Lane and Eric Stonestreet look-alikes? Am I really to believe this site is made up entirely of virile, leading men type heart throbs?

I was told many times I looked like Darryl Hall when I was in my 30's and Jeff Bridges when I was in my 40's but then again, most people don't know what the Hell they are talking about.

Today I often hear that I look like Bea Arthur. Now those are probably the most honest and accurate observations.

Yes, I look like Doris Day from the 1950s-60s. Chuck Grassley is quite perceptive.

Eddie Redmayne

You can really tell what people think of you when they make these comparisons. For an example: people who hate you will say Urkel and people who like will say Denzel.

A male Maya Rudolph

What you want to eat

"A dead-ringer for Winona Ryder", or so they say. I was 15 the first time I heard that comment, then in college people called me "Winona", and so on and so forth. The last time somebody remarked on it was a few months ago, at a party.

I couldn't see it for the longest time, until I finally did. She is beautiful, so God bless.

A young Johnny Depp, at his finest

Schlitzie

R253, I'll upload my picture if you'll upload yours.

A bagger at the supermarket once told me I look like Rosie O'Donnell. I went home and cried.

Elias Koteas, about 15 or 20 years ago. Have posted about this here before, maybe even on this thread. Was practically mobbed by people waiting in line at a state liquor store while visiting Montreal by people speaking French. He's apparently famous in Montreal, his hometown. Only understood parts of a few comments. Thought they were accusing me of being a serial rapist who'd just been on the TV news. Had no idea who he was (still don't). I denied understanding French well (my accent is pretty good, but is not Quebecois). Didn't help that I was staying at a very expensive, trendy, chic hotel two blocks away because my original hotel overbooked, so they sent me there. It was random, surreal, and unpleasant. Would never want to be a celebrity. Today we look nothing alike except that we are Greek and the same age. That incident still sort of freaks me out. Maybe the crowd thought that I was a serial rapist who should be portrayed by Elias Koteas? I'll never know. Moral of story: Getting only B-grades in high school French will come back to bite you.

Zoe Kravitz and Zendaya.

I don't see it.

Somebody confused me for Andy Bell of Erasure, this was around 2000 or so. Guy comes up to me in the street and starts talking to me and asking how the band was going. I replied "maaate, I think you got the wrong guy", and I guess my strong down under accent confirmed that for him. Not sure if I should of taken that as a compliment or not. Never been confused for anyone else

I was in a restaurant and this very hot waiter asked me if I was an actor. I said nope and he smiled and said "you look so much like Billy Bob Thornton." That was the last name i expected and looked a bit shocked. He said "Billy Bob Thornton is a very attractive man." Yes I fucked the waiter.

R258, you're hot.

r261 Yeeeeah, nah. It is the exact opposite, actually.

My hairdresser is gorgeous and looks like A. Jolie as Lara Croft…only Chinese. Stunning woman,

Ernest Hemingway

r252: "then in college people called me "Winona""

No. We called you "Wynonna".....

Chris Evans, so much so the Captain America fan page start following me. I'm aware I can pose in a certain angle that helps...and I wear my hair in a similar side part...and I've always thought Chris Evans was quite plain in a nice, boy next door way. Plus, bizarrely enough on numerous occasions I've been complimented with "u look very symmetrical"... which might mean bland lol.

When I was a child, Daniel Radcliffe. We are about the same age and looked quite similar at the time of the first movie or two (at any rate, we both had dark brown hair and glasses). As time went by, I no longer resembled him as much but it put me right off the books as people teased me about it for years.

R265, zero people in Brazil know Wynonna Judd.

Brad Pitt. A lot.

No, I'm not joking.

But this is DL, so go ahead and let me have it. Ha.

r269 I believe you, now fuck me.

[quote] [R252]: "then in college people called me "Winona""

[quote] No. We called you "Wynonna"..... —college people

Hi, R265. I'm R252 (and R268). You know, I just remembered you - I outed my mug in another thread, so now I'm thinking: "Why the hell not?".

You tell me.

R256, are you a man?

She's a woman, R272. She's a whole lot of woman, too, as in delicious; as in the kind I'd give flowers to, and go down on, after cooking for her and bathing her in rose water, while wearing my black garter belt.

All the gods - make it happen.

By the way, I'm not just supposing this about R256 - I used ignoredar, and I have it all on good authority.

I will never forget a personal ad in the late 1980s in New York magazine where a woman announced she was a "female Malcolm Forbes lookalike" searching for love.

R271 You are beautiful. I might see a bit of DL fave Catherine Zeta Jones in you.

Thank you, R276, you are kind. My eyes may be a bit too big (when I'm not smiling) for the Catherine Zeta-Jones comparison, though, but I see it - check out the thread linked below, posts R11 and R17.

Back in the day, some young boys at a mall yelled out “Remy” (for Remington Steele, I presumed) at me; around the same time a stranger told me I looked like James Bond.

Tom Cruise when I was younger.

Patrick Warburton now that I’m older.

Started out as Tom Hanks aged into Bill Murray.

An older Maggie Smith.

Ernest Hemingway

James Spader, circa 1990. I say, yes and no.

In my 20s, Billy Campbell.

In my 30s and 40s, Robert Downey, Jr.

Now, in my gray haired 50s, Don Johnson.

I don’t think any of those men resemble each other.

Josh Hartnett

R277, I looked at your photos and, yes, you do have a resemblance to Winona Ryder. Pretty woman.

About 20+ years ago when I was younger and thinner, definitely fitter, people said I looked like Britney Spears.

Then they said I looked like Lisa Robin Kelly (may she RIP).

Now I get Angela Lansbury. Probably not the Harvey Girls version. But hey, I'll still take it.

Thank you, R286.

You are welcome, LL.