People enjoy watching biographical movies and TV shows about important historical figures. These productions tell their stories and actors bring them to life by acting like them. Although finding actors who look like the real person is rare, casting directors have improved and actors also imitate their behavior and voice to make the portrayal more authentic.
1. Ed McVey as Prince William, The Crown
2. Lily James as Pamela Anderson, Pam & Tommy
3. Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, The Runaways
5. Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything
6. Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, Frida
7. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan, I’m Not There
8. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen
9. Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, Battle of the Sexes
10. Geoffrey Rush as Alberto Giacometti, Final Portrait
11. Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter
12. James Franco as James Dean, James Dean
13. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Milk
14. Gwilym Lee as Brian May, Bohemian Rhapsody
15. Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin
16. Joe Mazzello as John Deacon, Bohemian Rhapsody
17. Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla, Selena
18. Eric Elmosnino as Serge Gainsbourg, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
19. Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw, Glory
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