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Seriously Doppelgangery List: 7 Times Biopic Casting Got It Eerily Right.

By Jodi Smith | Lists | October 22, 2013 |

By Jodi Smith | Lists | October 22, 2013 |


When Hollywood decides to bring the (mostly true but sort of punched up for entertainment value) story of a real person’s life to the screen, the casting can really only go one of two ways. You either get the person’s attractiveness cranked up to 11 when they were really only a 3 at best, or you get it just right and it creeps people right the hell out. These are the Just Right But Creepy times.

Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong

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Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

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Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

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Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin

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Michael Sheen as David Frost

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Charlize Theron as Aileen Wournos

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Howard Stern as Howard Stern

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