50+ Genius Actors Vs. Historic Figures They Played

#1 Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)

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#2 Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman (2013)

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#3 Daniel Day‑Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012)

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#4 Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991)

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#5 Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992)

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#6 Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)

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#7 Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall (2004)

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#8 Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs In Jobs (2013)

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#9 Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)

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#10 Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus (2009)

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#11 Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)

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#12 Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena (1997)

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#13 Adrien Brody As Salvador Dali In Midnight In Paris (2011)

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#14 Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011)

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#15 Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy (1986)

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#16 Hellen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen( 2007)

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#17 Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012)

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#18 Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002)

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#19 Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008)

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#20 Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane and Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything (2014)

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#21 Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003)

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#22 Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (2007)

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#23 James Franco as James Dean in James Dean (2001)

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#24 Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

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#25 Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia (2009)

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#26 Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel (2009)

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#27 Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)

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#28 Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in Control (2007)

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#29 Edie Sedgwick & Andy Warhol (sienna Miller / Guy Pearce) (2006)

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#30 Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto “che” Guevara In Che (2008)

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#31 Hannah Taylor-gordon as Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

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#32 Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra (2013)

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#33 Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn (2011)

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#34 Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. (2007)

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#35 John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980)

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#36 Glenn Miller and James Steward in The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

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#37 Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde (1997)

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#38 Sherilyn Fenn as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story

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#39 Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon (1999)

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#40 oaquin Phoenix/ Johnny Cash

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#41 Will Smith as Muhammad Ali (2001)

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#42 Colin Firth as King George VI in The King’s Speech (2010)

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#43 Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (2014)

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#44 Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Hawking in “hawking” (2004)

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#45 James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in Howl (2010)

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#46 Peter O’toole as Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

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#47 John Goodman as Babe Ruth in The Babe (1992)

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#48 Ian Curtis as Sam Riley (joy Divivsion) in Control

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#49 Óscar Janeada as Cantinflas in Cantinflas.

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#50 Bill Hader as Andy Warhol

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#51 Vincent D’onofrio as Orson Welles

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#52 Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in Lust For Life (1956)

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#53 Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007)

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#54 André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)

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#55 Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso (1996)

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#56 Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda in Rush (2013)

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#57 Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie And Julia (2009)

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#58 Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (2000)

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#59 Albert Finney as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002)

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#60 Johnny Depp as James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in Black Mass (2015)

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#61 Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List (1993)

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#62 Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless in Into The Wild (2007)

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#63 Robert De Niro as Jake Lamotta in Raging Bull (1980)

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#64 James Franco as Aron Ralston in 127 hours (2010)

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#65 Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

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#66 Naomi Watts as Princess Diana in Diana (2013)

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#67 Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg (1993)

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#68 Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015)

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#69 Jason Scott Lee as Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

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#70 Ed Harris as Jackson Pollack in Pollack (2000)

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#71 Leonardo Dicaprio as Tycoon Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004)

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#72 Reese Witherspoon and Joacquin Phoenix as June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash (2005)

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#73 Gary Busey as Buddy Holly

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#74 Jessica Schwarz as Romy Schneider in Romy

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#75 Gary Oldman as Ludwig Van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994)

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