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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#41 Benicio Del Toro As Ernesto "Che" Guevara In Che (2008)

#42 Liam Neeson As Oskar Schindler In Schindler's List (1993)

#43 Reese Witherspoon Andjoacquin Phoenix As June Carter Cash And Johnny Cash In Walk The Line (2005)

#44 Emile Hirsch As Christopher McCandless In Into The Wild (2007)

#45 Robert De Niro As Jake Lamotta In Raging Bull (1980)

#46 James Franco As Aron Ralston In 127 hours (2010)

#47 Philip Seymour Hoffman As Truman Capote In Capote (2005)

#48 Peter O'Toole As T.E. Lawrence In Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

#49 Naomi Watts As Princess Diana In Diana (2013)

#50 Leonardo DiCaprio As Hugh Glass In The Revenant (2016)

#51 Colin Firth As King George Vi In The King's Speech (2010)

#52 Jeff Daniels As Joshua Chamberlain In Gettysburg (1993)

#53 Ralph Fiennes As Charles Dickens In The Invisible Woman (2013)

#54 Eddie Redmayne As Lili Elbe In The Danish Girl (2015)

#55 Jason Scott Lee As Bruce Lee In Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)

#56 Ed Harris As Jackson Pollack In Pollack (2000)

#57 Leonardo Dicaprio As Tycoon Howard Hughes In The Aviator (2004)

#58 Jesse Eisenberg As Mark Zuckerberg In The Social Network (2010)

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

#60 Actor Will Smith As American Boxer Muhammad In Ali (2001)