Redditor banana_rhino put together this wonderful side by side comparison of biopic actors and the actual people they meant to portray. Enjoy:
1. Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln:
Lincoln
2. Ben Kingsley as Gandhi:
Gandhi
3. Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh:
Hitchcock
4. Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley:
Greetings from Tim Buckley
5. Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett:
The Runaways
6. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth:
The Queen
7. James Franco as Aaron Ralston:
127 Hours
8. Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs
Jobs
9. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk:
Milk
10. Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious:
Sid And Nancy
11. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos:
Monster
12. Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo:
Frida
13. James Franco as Allen Ginsberg:
Howl
14. Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin:
Chaplin
15. Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman:
Man On The Moon
16. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan:
I'm Not There
17. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane:
Moneyball
18. Meryl Streep as Julia Child:
Julie And Julia
19. Gary Busey as Buddy Holly:
The Buddy Holly Story
20. Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor:
Liz and Dick
21. Tom Cruise as Claus Von Stauffenberg:
Valkyrie
22. Michael Sheen as David Frost:
Frost Vs. Nixon
23. Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchock:
Hitchcock
24. Jonathan Rhys Meyer as Elvis Presley:
Elvis
25. Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara:
Che
26. George C. Scott as General George S. Patton:
Patton
27. John Wayne as Genghis Khan:
The Conquerer
28. Josh Brolin as George W. Bush:
W
29. Gary Sinise as Harry Truman:
Truman
30. Leonard DiCaprio as Howard Hughes:
The Aviator
31. Aaron Johnson as John Lennon:
Nowhere Boy
32. Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash:
Walk The Line
33. Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock:
Pollock
34. Colin Farrell as Alexander The Great:
Alexander
35. James Franco as James Dean:
James Dean
36. Sam Riley as Ian Curtis:
Control
37. Forest Whitaker as Id Amin:
The Last King Of Scotland
38. Colin Firth as King George VI:
The King's Speech
39. Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix:
All Is By My Side
40. Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald:
JFK
41. Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison:
The Doors
42. Denzel Washington as Malcolm X:
Malcolm X
43. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher:
The Iron Lady
44. Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg:
The Social Network
45. Will Smith as Muhammad Ali:
Ali
46. Heath Ledger as Ned Kelly:
Ned Kelly
47. Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela:
Invictus
48. Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde:
Wilde
49. Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler:
Schindler's List
50. Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis Jr.:
The Rat Pack
51. Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali:
Midnight In Paris
52. Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin:
Game Change
53. Phillip Seymour Hoffan as Truman Capote:
Capote
54. A clownfish as a clownfish:
Finding Nemo