These Celebrity Lookalikes Will Have You Seeing Double
Some celebrities do their best acting when there are no cameras in sight.
Take the time Elizabeth Banks was out in Toronto, "and a guy walked up to me and said, 'Oh my god, my girlfriend loves you. She would die if I didn’t get your autograph. This is so exciting!'" the Hunger Games actress recounted to comedian Chelsea Handler while appearing on her Chelsea Lately talk show back in 2011.
But as he want on to praise her books, including 2005's My Horizonal Life, "I was like, 'Oh, he thinks he’s meeting Chelsea Handler,'" Banks continued. "I couldn’t ruin it for him!"
Dare we say it was a pitch-perfect response?
And should you commit a similar mix-up—like the woman who believed she spied Carrie Underwood, not Reese Witherspoon, dining out on barbecue—the odds are in your favor that the celebrity doppelgänger in question would follow suit.
Even Bryce Dallas Howard's own father, director Ron Howard, has gotten tripped up over how much the actress looks like Jessica Chastain, her costar in 2011's The Help.
So while Chastain is well aware she is kind, smart and important, she's unbothered by fans confusing her for the Jurassic World Dominion star.
Back when she first started working "off-off-off Broadway," she recounted during a 2015 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a group of teens approached her on the subway, asking if she was an actress.
As they began gushing about her work in the 2004 period thriller The Village, "I had this moment of, do I tell them that they’re wrong and it’s not me, or do I just pretend I’m Bryce," Chastain continued. "And as one does, I pretended I was Bryce."
Of course, she's hardly the first star to play a little make-believe. From Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel to Amy Adams and Isla Fisher, we challenge you not to do a double-take at some of these celebrity lookalikes.
You're not going mad(men): The Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actress looks even more like the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star now than when she played a younger Sabrina on the Netflix series!
Writer Jamie Jirak tweeted a collage of younger-version characters Grace played, including a young Shipka/Sabrina, in 2020 and wrote, "I think about this a lot."
Grace quote-retweeted with a crying-laughing emoji, "Same."
In a November 2023 Sirius XM interview, Leto was asked his thoughts on being compared to the Kardashians star, to which he said, "Really? Lucky me," and after a pause, added, "Thank you."
He also noted that if they were actually related, "Then I would have a rich relative. Because he's very wealthy, right? Yeah, that would be nice."
The Nocturnal Animals costars are aware of the comparison. In 2016, Fisher said on NBC's Today show that she once pasted Adams' face over hers for her family's holiday card.
It was no coincidence the actresses were both cast in Barbie.
"I've been getting told for years that I look like the girl from Sex Education, who is Emma Mackey," Robbie told BuzzFeed in a July video. "She plays one of the Barbies in the movie pretty much because [director] Greta [Gerwig] and I thought it would be funny. We were gonna do like this whole joke about us looking similar."
She continued, "Then once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, 'We don't actually look that similar.'' When she's got her brown hair and I've got my blonde hair, we don't look that similar. So we didn't put that joke in the movie. But when people come up and say, 'I loved you in Sex Education,' I just say, 'Thank you. Thank you so much.'"
"The celebrity I am mistaken for is Margot Robbie," the My Name Is Earl actress told Us Weekly in 2022. "It happens all the time."
The Help co-stars look so alike that director Ron Howard mistook Chastain for his own daughter.
At an Apple Store, "I was, like, walking by, I was like, 'Oh, that's Ron Howard,'" Chastain recalled. "And then my friend was with me (and) said he turned to someone, he goes, 'I think I just saw Bryce.' We look so much alike."
Bryce confirmed that the story was "legit" in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, saying her dad "was, like, shook. He really was."
"At first he was like, 'You really look so much alike,' " she said. "And I mean, obviously, I'm incredibly flattered, so it's great."
Neither celeb was upset when a social media user thought Witherspoon was Underwood.
"To the woman in the parking lot who just asked me if I was Carrie Underwood," the Legally Blonde star tweeted, "You officially made my day."
The Grammy winner quickly responded, "YOUR day?!?!?!?! That lady just made my whole life!"
"He's way better-looking than I was," Ruffalo said on the Tonight Show in March 2019. "Are you kidding me? I wish I looked like that, I swear to God."
Harry Potter and Frodo are well aware fans confuse them.
"Though we are both short, pale, blue-eyed and brown-haired, I would say we don't actually look alike," Radcliffe said in a joint interview with Empire magazine. "But the idea of us is exactly the same."
In fact, while in Japan, Radcliffe was even asked to autograph a photo of Wood.
"So the quickest way to deal with it was to just write, 'I am not Elijah Wood, signed Daniel Radcliffe,'" he explained, "and then hope someone translated that for him later."
The former Dancing With the Stars pro looks like Wonder Woman herself.
The Gossip Girl and Friday Night Lights actresses look so similar that they were cast as the leads in 2011's The Roommate, a Single White Female-esque horror flick.
The bearded stars look they may have been separated at birth.
The actresses look similar enough that Valletta could have served as a stand-in on Orange Is the New Black.
During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen pointed out the Downton Abbey actor's resemblance to the One Direction singer.
The Twilight star and Hunger Games alum share dark locks and glowing skin.
The Saturday Night Live alum and Oscar-winner could be confused as cousins, at the least.
These two get mistaken for each other all the time. Just ask them.
"When we were at the White House Correspondents' dinner," the comedian said when Banks stopped by Chelsea Lately. "Bill O'Reilly was talking to me and I said, 'I think you're confusing me with Elizabeth Banks,' because I wanted to get the f--k away from him."
Whether it's magic or just coincidence, the Breaking Bad star looks a lot like the Harry Potter actor.
We'd believe it if the singer and Gossip Girl star revealed they were long-lost relatives.
These actors certainly both have a similar sense of style.
The New Girl actress has been mistaken for the singer, who even played into their resemblance. In her "Not the End of the World" music video, Deschanel accidentally gets abducted by aliens who mistake her for the American Idol judge.
"Dude! You don't understand, I get this every single day," Justice told MTV News of her resemblance to The Vampire Diaries star. "Everyone always confuses me for her."
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