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When selecting the cast for a biopic, or biographical movie, the director must walk a fine line between selecting someone for their physical
similarity vs. selecting them for having the thespian talent required to play the part.
Here's a list of actors who definitely succeeded on the physical similarity side of things.
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane andStephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything
Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs
Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida
Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Viciousand Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy
Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X
Daniel Day‑Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra
Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali in Midnight In Paris
Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster
Bill Hader as Andy Warhol
James Franco as James Dean in James Dean
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
Anthony Hopkins as Picasso in Surviving Picasso
Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose/la Môme
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
John Goodman as Babe Ruth
Gary Busey as Buddy Holly
James Stewart as Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story