Portraying the role of a real-life person or a famous historic figure requires more effort and skills than playing the role of an imaginary or self-made character. Because the audiences already know about the real character’s styles and looks. Moreover, they compare the portraying actor with the historical figure. There are many doppelgangers of each famous person. However, not everyone can act like them. As a result, the directors have to choose from actors who look like the character and must have the ability to emulate the character of the person they are playing. The makeup artists and costume designers also work hard to turn the actor or actress into a historical flick. Take examples of some of the best biographical movies, such as, Daniel Day who portrayed Lincoln in the Lincoln movie, Bruno Ganz, who played the role of Adolf Hitler in Downfall; there are so many other extraordinary examples of actors who accurately portrayed real-life characters in movies listed below in a side by side comparison with the original character.
#1 Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004)
#2 Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman (2013)
#3 Daniel Day‑Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012)
#4 Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991)
#5 Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992)
#6 Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi in Gandhi (1982)
#7 Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall (2004)
#8 Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs In Jobs (2013)
#9 Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)
#10 Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus (2009)
#11 Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)
#12 Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena (1997)
#13 Adrien Brody As Salvador Dali In Midnight In Paris (2011)
#14 Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011)
#15 Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy (1986)
#16 Hellen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen( 2007)
#17 Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012)
#18 Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002)
#19 Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008)
#20 Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane and Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything (2014)
#21 Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003)
#22 Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (2007)
#23 James Franco as James Dean in James Dean (2001)
#24 Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
#25 Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia (2009)
#26 Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel (2009)
#27 Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote (2005)
#28 Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in Control (2007)
#29 Edie Sedgwick & Andy Warhol (sienna Miller / Guy Pearce) (2006)
#30 Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto “che” Guevara In Che (2008)
#31 Hannah Taylor-gordon as Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)
#32 Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra (2013)
#33 Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn (2011)
#34 Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. (2007)
#35 John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980)
#36 Glenn Miller and James Steward in The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
#37 Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde (1997)
#38 Sherilyn Fenn as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
#39 Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon (1999)
#40 oaquin Phoenix/ Johnny Cash
#41 Will Smith as Muhammad Ali (2001)
#42 Colin Firth as King George VI in The King’s Speech (2010)
#43 Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (2014)
#44 Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Hawking in “hawking” (2004)
#45 James Franco as Allen Ginsberg in Howl (2010)
#46 Peter O’toole as Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
#47 John Goodman as Babe Ruth in The Babe (1992)
#48 Ian Curtis as Sam Riley (joy Divivsion) in Control
#49 Óscar Janeada as Cantinflas in Cantinflas.
#50 Bill Hader as Andy Warhol
#51 Vincent D’onofrio as Orson Welles
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Dear God it looks like Gary Buddy on left portraying Buddy Holly (right)
#52 Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh in Lust For Life (1956)
#53 Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007)
#54 André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013)
#55 Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso (1996)
#56 Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda in Rush (2013)
#57 Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie And Julia (2009)
#58 Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (2000)
#59 Albert Finney as Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002)
#60 Johnny Depp as James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in Black Mass (2015)
#61 Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List (1993)
#62 Emile Hirsch as Christopher McCandless in Into The Wild (2007)
#63 Robert De Niro as Jake Lamotta in Raging Bull (1980)
#64 James Franco as Aron Ralston in 127 hours (2010)
#65 Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
#66 Naomi Watts as Princess Diana in Diana (2013)
#67 Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg (1993)
#68 Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015)
#69 Jason Scott Lee as Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
#70 Ed Harris as Jackson Pollack in Pollack (2000)
#71 Leonardo Dicaprio as Tycoon Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004)
#72 Reese Witherspoon and Joacquin Phoenix as June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash (2005)
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Jimmy Stewart as Glenn Miller
#73 Gary Busey as Buddy Holly
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That’s Orson Welles on the right.
