Photo comparison: 15 actors and the real people they played

As you know, among the main sources of inspiration for filmmakers are not only masterpieces of literature and earlier works of their colleagues in the shop. A huge layer of scenarios was based on historical events, cases from real life and biographies of famous or simply interesting people.

Recently, such a genre of cinema as a biopic has become especially popular. But if almost everyone knows some characters who have received a film incarnation, then others are mostly known for their appearance on the screens, which means they are associated with performing actors. At the same time, there is not always an external resemblance between them. We present you a photo selection in which we compared real people, whose biographies were the basis of the plots of the films, and the actors who played in these films.

1. From left to right: actress Maria Aronova as the first female officer Maria Bochkareva in the film "Battalion"; commander of the women's "battalion of death" Maria Bochkareva.

2. From left to right: Mikhail Porechenkov as wrestler Ivan Poddubny in the film "Poddubny"; wrestler Ivan Poddubny.

3. From left to right: Boris Babochkin as Vasily Chapaev in the film "Chapaev"; commander of the Red Army, participant in the First World War and the Civil War Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev.

4. From left to right: Danila Kozlovsky as Valery Kharlamov in the film "Legend No. 17"; hockey player Valery Kharlamov.

5. From left to right: Yuri Yakovlev as Ivan the Terrible in the film "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession"; Ivan the Terrible in an 18th century painting.

6. From left to right: Vladimir Mashkov as Nicholas II in the film "Rasputin"; Emperor Nicholas II.

7. From left to right: Georgy Vitsin as Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol in the film Composer Glinka; Russian prose writer, playwright, poet Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.

8. From left to right: Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in the film "Stephen Hawking's Universe"; English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

9. From left to right: Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game; English mathematician, logician, cryptographer Alan Turing.

10. From left to right: Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali; boxer Muhammad Ali.

11. From left to right: Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in The Aviator; American entrepreneur, engineer, aviation pioneer Howard Hughes.

12. Left to right: Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List; Sudeten German industrialist who saved almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust Oskar Schindler.

13. Left to right: Russell Crowe as John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind; mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.

14. Left to right: Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt in Night at the Museum; 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt.

15. From left to right: Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs: Empire of Temptation; Apple founder Steve Jobs.