30 actors, incredibly similar to the prototypes of their heroes
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/30-actors-incredibly-similar-to-the-prototypes-of-their-heroes1.htmlWhen selecting actors for a biographical role, the director walks a fine line between outwardly similar performers and actors with the necessary talent to convey the idea. In particularly successful cases, these two aspects coincide, and then we see wonderful actors who bring historical characters to life on the screen.
The success of film biographies is the merit not only of the actors themselves, but also of casting experts and makeup artists. Many consider the roles in biographical films to be among the most difficult and most worthwhile in Hollywood. Since we are usually talking about famous historical characters, the actor's task is to work out a huge amount of materials about his hero and correctly find that very image.
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Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, "Ray".
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln."
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison, The Doors.
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, "Chaplin".
Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi, "Gandhi".
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, "Jobs".
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X, "Malcolm X".
Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix, "Jimi Hendrix".
Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla, "Selena".
Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali, "Midnight in Paris".
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady".
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spanjen, "Sid and Nancy".
Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, the "Queen".
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, "Hitchcock".
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, "Frida".
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking, "The Theory of Everything".
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf, "Life in Pink".
Charlize Theron as Eileen Wuornos, "The Monster".
Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers, "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers."
Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso, "Living a Life with Picasso."
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, "Amelia".
Audrey Totu as Coco Chanel, "Coco do Chanel".
On the left — Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, on the right — Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce.
Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne Frank, TV series "Anne Frank".
Jared Leto as John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, "Chapter 27".
James Stewart (right) as Glenn Miller, "The Glenn Miller Story."
Oscar Wilde and actor Stephen Fry in his image.
Sherilyn Fenn as Elizabeth Taylor, "Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story."
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf.
Lawrence of Arabia and actor Peter O'Toole.
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