You may have heard about the dude who looks like Ashton Kutcher reportedly fooling paparazzi. Well, I actually wonder why this kind of thing doesn’t happen all the time. I once met a woman who looked and sounded so much like Angelina Jolie that all I had to say was, "Does anyone ever— " and she interrupted me with "Several times a day, every day." My dad likes to laugh about the Tribeca Film Fest screening last spring where a fawning publicist mistook him for director Michael Apted and wanted to make sure he was having a splendiferous evening. And just yesterday, I realized that Amy Ryan, left, the Oscar-bound (if justice is served) costar of Gone Baby Gone, shares an uncanny resemblance to an editor I’ve worked with. Based on an informal poll of friends, we probably all know someone who looks like (or at least looks closely related to) someone in the public eye.
But have they ever made any money from it? The bizarre world of professional celebrity impersonators, as depicted in the new book Fame Us, is full of doppelgangers devoted to maximizing all the "you-look-just-like" attention. Some of the book’s subjects — like the Yugoslavian native who’s a dead ringer for Mike Myers — make you wonder about the existence of secret cloning programs, while others boast more dubious claims, like the guy who believes he looks like Conan O’Brien, but totally does not. I’m generally thrilled, as a woman, that nobody tells me I remind them of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, but Felvis (yes, female Elvis) would take that as a compliment.
So, PopWatchers, what’s your lookalike story? Are you (or someone you know) often told "you look like…"?
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When I was a bit younger I used to be told that I looked a little like Jackie Onassis (!) and I always loved that!
These days, if I straighten my curly hair, I might get an occasional “Oh, you look like Penelope Cruz with your hair like that!” but I don’t see it at all.
I look like John Lennon or Tom Petty. Since I am female, that is not really a good thing. And Andrea, I think you are delusional since Jackie and Penelope look nothing alike.
Someone told me that I look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun. I think it’s just the hair, as I have a much nicer profile.
I’ve been told I resemble Michael Gross, who played the father on “Family Ties.” If he were more famous, I could possibly rent myself out as stunt double or paparazzi decoy.
For me, it’s not a real person since I have been told I looked like the girl from the game Final Fantasy. However, I have delicate features and I also have been told on occasion I kinda have a Audrey Hepburn look.
When I was 18, I had a coworker tell me that I looked like Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. While I completely adore those women for their intelligence and humor, I didn’t think the comparison of looks was a compliment.
I have been told I look like Jessica Biel only I think I am much prettier. I am also prettier than all of you. I also have bigger bazonga’s. I shtup pro atheletes. You uglies don’t realize how easy we gorgeous folks have it.
Hahaha. Well maybe you are funny and talented in addition to being funny looking (only kidding). And neither of those women look anything alike!!! How about we just look like us!
I am often told by guys with money that I look like Nina Hartley. Oh wait. That is just my back door that looks like Nina Hartley’s.
i’ve been told i looke like Mark Paul whats his name, from Saved By the Bell –which i don’t get at all!!
I get told all the time I look like Jodie Foster. Not just by people I know, but random people walking past me on the street. I think it has to do with the mouth and eyes, but I dont see it.
oh and i work with someone who gets mistaken for ann curry from Today show. now what would ann curry be doing driving around tampa everyday?
i don’t go very long without someone mistaking me for joseph-gordon levitt of 10 things i hate about you, 3rd rock, and the lookout. it’s often the first thing new acquaintances bring up.
I have been told I look like either Sandra Bullock and/or Lucy Lawless, I adore them and take it as a compliment. I don’t really see it myself, but I am flattered! I am old enough to be their MOM!
I’ve been told I look like Tea Leoni…Victoria Jackson…and Morgan
Fairchild…All of which don’t look
anything alike.
I used to get Linda Hamilton all the time when I was younger. Like stopped on the street with “you look just like that woman from ‘Beauty and the Beast’” or later, Terminator (original recipe; I’m not quite buff enough for super-buff LH). Someone recently said Marcia Gay Harden.
i have curly hair, so usually anyone who has the fresh faced, curly hair look. when i was little it was shirley temple. when i was a teen, i sometimes got chelsea clinton from her frizzy hair days – ugh! then one time in college a guy told me i looked like that girl from the face wash commercial (it was rebecca gayheart at the time). i felt super good about myself after he compared me to her haha.
I’ve gotten Mariah Carey when I was younger and she first came out, and more recently I’ve gotten the wife on The King Of Queens (can’t think of her name…).
kyle corver of the philadelphia 76ers is a dead ringer for ashton kutcher, even more than that guy. i think he makes enough playing basketball that he doesnt foray into the impersonation field though…
Oh, and my best friend looks just like Christina Aguilera when she had black hair, like in the Fighter video days.
And my other friend either gets Anne Hathaway or Penelope Cruz, she does look like a mix of the 2.
I am 29 now. When I was in my early 20s, I would sometimes get Scott Stapp from Creed or Russel Crowe (I didn’t argue.) But, hands down, the celebrity I have been most compared to is Corey Feldman. It’s kind of like the Angelina Jolie thing mentioned in the blog, people would say “You know who you…” and I would stop and say “I know, Corey Feldman.”
My late husband was a total ringer for Chuck Norris-I still can’t watch him without feeling sad.
I was 7 when ET came out and EVERYONE told me I was a dead-ringer for snaggle-toothed Drew Barrymore. That lasted into college. What wasn’t cool was when she was in rehab and my 8th grade English teacher said, “Oh, you look like Drew Barrymore!” Great. Thanks. In the last 10 years I’ve gotten Tea Leone, too.
I have a friend from college who looks like Christian Slater, and he’s aging in the same was as Slater too.
I have a friend who looks just like Ambreal from this season of ANTM lol. Otherwise, no.
My university is teeming with celebrity look-alikes. A “Pretty in Pink”-era James Spader in my Psych class, brunette Kellie Martin and Amy Poehler managing the student magazine, a Kevin Bacon/Scott Bakula mix in the dorm, Wanda Sykes teaching a class. It’s insanity.
The summer that “Save the Last Dance” came out, I had at least 10 different people within a few weeks tell me that I looked just like Julia Stiles. My wedding picture also happens to look a lot like Julia Stiles on the poster for “The Prince and Me.” It’s the round face and blonde hair.
Someone once came up to me after E gave a seminar and told me that they couldn’t concentrate on what i was saying because all they could think about was how much I looked like Courtney Cox. Which – sadly – is not true at all.
I’ve been compared to young Sally Field. Which is totally okay, since she’s aged pretty darn well. Also, when the movie “Heat” came out, I was compared to the chick in that…Natalie Portman’s mom.