15 Famous People in Real Life and on the Screen

Sometimes real life is more interesting than any story made up. That is the reason real person inspired stories appear in Hollywood from time to time. But a movie can only be successful, if the actors and the characters they play look really similar. Finding someones lookalike must be hard, especially a year-hundred after, but some casting directors just have the eye for it. Look at these pictures, that prove not only, that with the right amount of make-up, actors can look anyhow, but also that surprising similarities do exist.

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

Robert Downey Jr as Chaplin

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi

Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison (The Door)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

Charlize Theron as Alieen Wuornos

Jennifer Lopez, as Selena Quintanilla

Helen Mirren as Elisabeth II

Gary Oldman as Beethoveen

Bruno Ganz as Hitler

Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs