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Celebrity Look-Alikes

Lauren

I must have one of those faces, but I get told I look like other people all the time.* It was far worse when I was younger. Clancy blogs that she most look like Hayley Mills, which reminded me of the weirdest and weirdly accurate comparison someone made between me and a celebrity.

Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver. Teen prostitute, thanks. But I’d kill the hat.

Who do you look like? Anybody?

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* Don’t rely on pictures, by the way. I don’t look like my pictures IRL.

51 thoughts on Celebrity Look-Alikes

  6. I’ve often been told I look like Julie Andrews. That used to depress me because I felt they were really saying I reminded them of Mary Poppins. J.A. has aged very well, though, so I’m hoping for the best.

  8. Joel thinks Emily Thornton, the actress who plays Emily in High Wind in Jamaica, looks like the photos he’s seen of me as a little girl. Unfortunately, IMDb doesn’t have any photos of her.

  10. Unfortunately, I’ve been told I look like Ann Coulter. Hey… I’m about 20 years younger!

    I get Heather Locklear, too. At least that one I can take as a compliment. She doesn’t have the oblong John-Kerry-face like Coulter does.

  12. I’ve also been told, by a surprising number of random people, that I look like Nicole Kidman. I have no idea where they get it, but obviously some people do see a resemblance, because I’ve heard it consistently for years. I don’t see that one at all.

  13. I get Jennifer Jason Leigh and Molly Shannon, especially when I grin. What amuses me is men who tell me I look like Molly Shannon often then backtrack and try to semi-apologize, like, “Oh, I think she’s pretty, etc.” It amuses me–of course she is! I think, on the whole, I’d rather remind people of an attractive comedian than to have people feed me bullshit about how I resemble a stunning movie star, since in the former case, you’re pretty sure they’re telling the truth.

  15. Don’t rely on pictures, by the way. I don’t look like my pictures IRL.

    Then you don’t look like that Jodie Foster pic.

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  17. I don’t look like my pictures IRL

    So… how do we know that Jodie Foster looks like her pictures IRL? Or did I just blow your mind?

    (I get Bob Dylan all the time, by the way.)

  18. Remember Mary Lou Retton from the Energizer commercials (and gymnast) in the 90’s? When I cut my hair short to join the Navy I was told consistently that I looked like her.

  20. As I said over at Pandagon, I always used to get compared to Natalie Merchant and Finola Hughes (aka Anna Devane on General Hospital). I’ve also gotten Isabella Rosselini, Ali McGraw, Bjork, and uh Monica Lewinsky. Basically, I have brown hair and they do too.

    The only time a celebrity comparison bugged me was when a guy came up to me and my blonde friend in a bar and insisted that we were the spitting image of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer– which we so clearly are not. It was just sort of lame and seemed vaguely insulting that this guy thought we would be insanely flattered to be compared to two other women we don’t even resemble.

    Oh and the Monica Lewinsky thing was disturbing. At the end of a week-long trial advocacy course for prosecutors from around the country, the instructors gave each participant a “joke” award. I was sort of stunned and didn’tk now how to react when I was given the “Monica Lewinsky” award. I was told that it was just because I look so much like her — but I really don’t.

  21. I get told by everyone that I look exactly like a local celebrity in the same business Im in. We’ve never met so maybe she is my doppleganger

  23. I use to be told I looked like Shirley Temple when I was younger because of my curly hair. And little orphan Annie.

  25. Recently I was told I look like Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Which shouldn’t be too big a shock, since my maternal grandfather looked like him when he was young.

  26. I get these a lot, and I get a bunch of them:

    -Lori Laughlin (Aunt Becky from Full House). I seriously get this one all the time.
    -Tiffany Amber Thiessen (Kelly from Saved by the Bell)
    -Sophia Bush, who plays someone on One Tree Hill, a show I’ve never seen
    -Trista from The Bachelorette
    -Heather Graham if she had brown hair
    -Kirsten Dunst (but that was said to me by a drunk hobo, so I’m not sure how accurate it is)

    Like Moebius Stripper, I’ve also heard the young Elizabeth Taylor thing, but that was from my aunt and my grandma, so who knows. And a while back someone told me that when I’m older, I’ll look like Francis McDormand.

  27. Right after The Breakfast Club came out, I got told I looked like Ally Sheedy. Great, the crazy girl with dandruff! It was my life’s dream.

    I have one friend who insists I looked like Elizabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting back in the 80s, but the perm was the only point of resemblance, and that’s gone now. Meanwhile Shue got even more fabulous-looking while I got . . . older.

  28. When I had shoulder-length hair and a little beard, and didn’t wear glasses, the Bobcat Goldthwait comparisons were a bit too frequent for my liking.

  29. Since forever I have been told I could be Brooke Shields twin. They said it was the long brown hair and eyebrows. Kirsty Alley came onto the scene and people started saying I looked like her. I think it’s because of the dark hair and blue eyes. Once, I was told I looked like Cindy Crawford. All fabulous women so I’m not complaining!

    I have black hair and wear my glasses all the time now so I don’t get too many comparisons.

  31. I get Molly Ringwald. A lot. I think it’s because I have red hair. The resemblance, though, ends there.

    At least I don’t hear “Hey! You look just like Carrot Top!”

  32. This is very strange … I also resembled Hayley Mills, especially when I was a kid. Once, at a summer camp, I was tormented by this kid who would sing, “LET’S GET TOGETHER, YAY, YAY, YAY!” from the “Parent Trap” all the time.

    Hey, I’m with Jo. There’s worse celebs to be compared to. At least I don’t get Joan Rivers.

  33. Andi McDowell when I wore my hair long and allowed it to be wavy/curly. I think its more we have similar characteristics – dark hair, dark eyes, kinda long face, big smile – than look alike.

    Also Julie Loius-Dreyfuss – or rather the comment’s been “you look like Elaine from Seinfeld.”

  34. I’ve gotten PJ Harvey a few times. And my mom says I look like Isabella Rossellini, but I think she’s biased : )

  35. i get the Heather Graham one, though less frequently now. only people would always remember her as Felicity Shagwell, which would then lead to icky comments about shagging very well by nature, etc etc. Mmmm, strangers enquiring about sexlife. Great.

  36. When I was in high school, I got Winona Ryder a lot, which I think has more to do with my coloring (and hair dye and penchant for wearing red lipstick) than with any actual resemblence.

  37. This may be the most narcisisstic thread on the internets.

    That being said, I’m often told (like, daily) that I look like Markus Scheckenberg, David Beckham and Johnny Depp. Except …

    WAY, WAY, WAY HANDSOMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I mean, I don’t see it, as all of those men are incredibly handsome, BUT I GET TOLD THAT ALL THE TIME!!!!!!! But whatever, it doesn’t phase me.

  38. I get Angelina Jolie all the damn time – I think it’s just the long brown hair, big lips thing. I also occasionally get Uma Thurman, causing me to go “O.o”.

  39. When I was shaved, I was told every once in awhile that I looked like John Lennon circa late ’70s. With the beard, thou shalt bow before thy Lord and Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah.

  41. This is so embarrassing but…. Melissa Gilbert, Laura on Little House on the Prairie.

    I’m hoping this resemblance is fading as I age!

  42. When I was a bit thinner and they were more popular, I used to get Ally Sheedy or Molly Ringwald, depending on my haircolor.

    Really, the only resemblance to Molly Ringwald is red hair. Ally Sheedy around the eyebrows and chin, I think.

  43. Heather Langenkamp who played Nancy in the 1st, 3rd, and 7th Nightmare on Elm Street. Of course this was before I stole Lauren’s haircut.

  44. People think that I look like anyone who is brown-skinned and slender. I’ve gotten: Brandy, Lauryn Hill, Res, India Arie, Santi White (of the band Stiffed) and Kelly Rowland. (The only one I kinda sorta maybe resemble is Res.)

  45. Someone once came up to me in a bookstore and told me I looked like a nanny who was being tried for murdering her young charges. I must have looked surprised, because the commenter immediately added: “But I’m sure you’re a very nice person.”

  47. People tell me I look like the Olsen Twins.

    Well, except I’m an old fat dude, and there is only one of me.

  49. Chris Sarandon, I was told recently. I think it was my lack of haircut. She said “You look like that bad prince from The Princess Bride”. I was very..put out.

    I was hoping for Jim Morrison, like in my high school days.

  50. I get Austin Powers (I’ll assume for the thick glasses and bad teeth) and occasionally David Spade, which I look more like when my glasses aren’t on. Except my hair is almost black-brown.

    I junior high I used to always get Fred Savage. Of course, he was in middle school then too.

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