CuriositiesJUN 30, 2016

68 Actors Vs. Historic People They Played

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Actors pretend to be other people. It's what actors do. Sometimes they fail. Other times they succeed. And sometimes they embody their characters so completely that you forget you're watching a movie. Take some of the best biopics for example. Did you notice Helen Mirren while watching The Queen, or was it Elizabeth II you saw? What about Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, or Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln? Even now it's difficult to think of Ben Kingsley or Mahatma Gandhi without associating one with the other, because like all of the above, the actor didn't just play a role - they became that role.

In homage to these amazing performances, Bored Panda has compiled a list of the most accurate real-life portrayals to ever hit the silver screen. Take a look at the pictures below and vote for the most convincing!

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#21 Gary Oldman And Chloe Webb As Sid Vicious And His Girlfriend Nancy Spungen In Sid And Nancy (1986)

#22 Denzel Washington As Malcolm X In Malcolm X (1992)

#23 Hannah Taylor-Gordon As Anne Frank In Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

#24 Morgan Freeman As Nelson Mandela In Invictus (2009)

#25 Stephen Fry As Oscar Wilde In Wilde (1997)

#26 Anthony Hopkins As Pablo Picasso In Surviving Picasso (1996)

#27 Geoffrey Rush As Peter Sellers In The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers (2004)

#28 James Franco As James Dean In James Dean (2001)

#29 Robert Downey Jr. As Charlie Chaplin In Chaplin (1992)

#30 Sean Penn As Harvey Milk In Milk (2008)

#31 Hilary Swank As Amelia Earhart In Amelia (2009)

#32 Audrey Tautou As Coco Chanel In Coco Before Chanel (2009)

#33 Daniel Brühl As Niki Lauda In Rush (2013)

#34 Michelle Williams As Marilyn Monroe In My Week With Marilyn (2011)

#35 Meryl Streep As Julia Child In Julie And Julia (2009)

#36 Halle Berry As Dorothy Dandridge In Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (2000)

#37 Michael Douglas As Liberace In Behind The Candelabra (2013)

#38 Albert Finney As Winston Churchill In The Gathering Storm (2002)

#39 Jim Carrey As Andy Kaufman In Man On The Moon (1999)

#40 Johnny Depp As James 'Whitey' Bulger In Black Mass (2015)