44 pairs of celebrities who look most identical

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  • Everyone likely has a doppelgänger, including celebrities.
  • Insider rounded upwardly pairs of stars who oft get mistaken for each other or who fans believe expect alike.
  • Pairings include Halsey and Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas, and Sarah Hyland and Mila Kunis.

We all likely accept a doppelgänger in the globe somewhere. And that's not express to but everyday people who are running into their wait-alikes. Celebrities do, too.

Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard go mistaken for each other all the fourth dimension. Fans are convinced others share such a resemblance that they must accept been separated at birth.

If y'all've always felt similar y'all're experiencing déjà vu, these pairs of celebrities may be the reason you're seeing double.

2. Pecker Skarsgård and Steve Buscemi

Pecker Skarsgård has been compared to Steve Buscemi his entire life.
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During a 2019 advent on "The Belatedly Evidence With Stephen Colbert," Skarsgård said he has heard this resemblance his entire life, even every bit a child.

"I had big, soulful eyes," Skarsgård said. "I had a friend who even looked more than like Steve Buscemi than I did, I thought. And so, the running joke when we were growing upward was, 'No, you lot look like Steve Buscemi. No, you expect like Steve Buscemi.'"

In that location's even an Instagram account defended to their similar appearances, which Skarsgård said was "a huge compliment."

"I think he has i of the best faces in the business organization," Skarsgård said of the "Boardwalk Empire" actor.

three. Amy Adams and Isla Fisher

Amy Adams and Isla Fisher.
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Despite the heart color difference, the "Arrival" and "Bachelorette" actresses go confused often. Fisher joked about the duo'due south hit resemblance in her cover story with Allure in January 2009.

"If 'Shopaholic' is a hit, then information technology was Isla Fisher in the movie," said Fisher. " ... and if it doesn't work out, it was Amy Adams."

Fisher used Adams' photo in her Christmas card one year and fooled both family unit and friends.

four. Margot Robbie and Samara Weaving

Margot Robbie and Samara Weaving.
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According to the Daily Mail, Weaving, who has starred in "Set up or Not," told Who mag she has been mistaken for the Oscar-nominated actor plenty of times, with fans requesting photos.

"I've tried saying, 'No, it's not who you remember it is,' just considering I as well have an Australian accent, people still call up I'm Margot and that she'due south being really rude. At present I just stand up in that location like her," Weaving said.

v. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson are good friends who go mistaken for ane another.
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Neeson has said people oftentimes confuse the "Harry Potter" and "Taken" stars. That shouldn't be too much of a surprise since the ii have starred in multiple films alongside each other ("Schindler's List," "Wrath of the Titans"). The only difference is that Fiennes usually plays the bad guy while Neeson's the hero.

"He is one of my best, best, beloved friends. I keep getting fans and stuff mixing me up with Ralph considering we accept very similar profiles," Neeson said on The Jonathan Ross Testify in 2014. "So I've been complimented on winning a Tony Award for my Hamlet, he's been complimented on the 'Taken' movies."

You can picket Neeson hash out their similarity more than here.

6. Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley was Natalie Portman's double in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."
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Short, long, curly, or straight hair, Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman look strikingly similar no affair how you pair them.

The two look so similar, Knightley played Portman's double, Sabé, in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."

7. Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel

Don't tell Zooey Deschanel she looks similar the pop star.
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The "New Daughter" extra was initially kind of frustrated when fans confused the two.

"Information technology's a petty flake annoying, to be totally blunt," Deschanel told MTV back in 2009. "The only similarity that we have is that nosotros look a trivial bit alike."

The extra has since appeared to warm upward to the similarity.

"I was relieved because everyone kept saying 'this daughter looks then much similar you,'" she told Letterman in November 2012. "And and then I met her and I was similar, 'Thank God she's attractive!' I was worried she was gonna be an unattractive person."

8. Will Ferrell and Republic of chad Smith

Volition Ferrell (left) and Republic of chad Smith welcomed the fact they look alike.
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The comedian and Crimson Hot Chili Pepper drummer know they expect so like that they took their rivalry to "Jimmy Fallon" in 2014 in a pulsate-off. The pair even dressed akin.

You can watch their competition here and see their equally humorous interview hither.

9. Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard

Can you lot tell these two radiant red heads autonomously?
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The actresses are well aware that fans get them mixed up.

"We did 'Help' together and that was the outset fourth dimension we like grabbed each other and said, 'Let'south look in the mirror,'" Chastain told Jimmy Fallon in 2015. "And we looked at our faces adjacent and we were like, 'Okay, nosotros look akin.'"

Chastain recalled how she was mistakened for the "Jurassic Earth" star later and how she sometimes only goes with it. The ii are good sports about it though and have tried to clear upwards all the defoliation.

Howard fabricated a short dubsmash clip where she allow's people know who's who. It caught the attention of Chastain who shared it on Instagram. In May 2015, Chastain shared a funny image on Twitter poking fun at how people can't tell them apart.

10. Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek

The two actresses are actually expert friends.
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The official Oscars Instagram even confused the two dorsum in 2014.

In real life, the 2 are really skilful friends and take selfies with each other. They take a nickname for one some other, too — huevos — which is Spanish for eggs.

eleven. Nathan Fillion and Jeremy Renner

Nathan Fillion (left) has said he gets mistaken for a few actors.
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Whenever we flip past ABC'southward "Castle" we remember nosotros're catching sight of "The Avengers" star on screen. In 2014, Fillion took to Twitter to discuss various celebs that fans think he looks similar. How did he grade Renner? "Brothers."

Fillion said he has besides spoken with Jason Bateman about their resemblance to 1 some other.

12. Millie Bobby Brown and Natalie Portman

Is Millie Bobby Brown the next Natalie Portman?
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Natalie Portman makes this list twice! In January 2018, fans took to Twitter to note the resemblance between "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown and a young Portman.

Tin can nosotros get these two to play sisters in a movie?

thirteen. Halsey and Millie Bobby Brownish

Halsey and Millie Bobby Brown.
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Singer Halsey told Jimmy Fallon they thought Millie Bobby Brown would be perfect to play them in a biopic, noting their similar appearances.

"Millie would be great," Halsey said. "Merely I don't really think I'm famous enough to cast Millie."

They added: "It'south kind of uncanny how much we await alike. Information technology's like, 'Oh no, we really only look like sisters.'"

14. Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera

We're not the just ones who mix upwardly Jesse Eisenberg (left) and Michael Cera.
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People mix these actors upwardly all the time, according to "Arrested Evolution" actor Cera.

"I bumped into Jesse on the street in one case and he told me he gets it one time a day," Cera told the New York Post in 2014. "People think he'due south Michael Cera."

Cera said he gets mistaken for other people too, including Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite").

fifteen. Coco Jones and Jennifer Hudson

Coco Jones and Jennifer Hudson get mistaken for ane another.
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Since 2012, "Bel-Air" star Coco Jones has said she's received comparisons to the EGOT winner.

During an appearance on "The Jennifer Hudson Show," Hudson asked the crowd whether or not the two looked alike.

When they received a resounding yeah, they shared how they're often mistaken for each other.

"I get that so often that, honestly at this point, I just play into it," Jones told Hudson.

"I go people proverb that all the fourth dimension," Hudson responded, adding, "I don't tell them I'm Jennifer Hudson, but I'll be like, 'Coco Jones? No, but give thanks you!'" Hudson said.

"I take it equally such a compliment," Jones told Hudson. "You know yous take been and so impactful in my life, but watching you lot, another beautiful, dark-skinned adult female just killing information technology. That's my motivation."

xvi. Jennifer Connelly and Demi Moore

In the '90s, Jennifer Connelly (left) and Demi Moore were in a lot of big movies effectually the same time.
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If it weren't for Connelly's fuller brows, nosotros would call up these ii were interchangeable.

17. Ryan Seacrest and Joel McHale

Joel McHale (correct) knows the 2 share a resemblance.
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This is a running joke between the ii that has been referenced numerous times on NBC's "Community."

McHale even took over Seacrest's Twitter handle and website i day.

18. Zoe Saldaña and Thandie Newton

Zoe Saldaña has been told the two actresses share a similar look.
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Zoe Saldaña said on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" she doesn't only get mistaken for the "Westworld" extra, but likewise Kerry Washington.

"Sometimes I'll just be walking down the street and I'll have people go, 'Hey, Thandie Newton,'" Saldaña said in 2013. "It'southward like, 'Oh my god, your show on Goggle box is amazing, Ms. Washington.' So it'south sort of like ... it humbles y'all."

And information technology's not just fans. Saldana told The Hollywood Reporter her mom saw Newton on a poster for "Crash" and thought it was her girl.

19. Evan Rachel Wood and Rachel Brosnahan

Evan Rachel Woods is on the left.
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Newton isn't the only "Westwood" star with a Hollywood doppelganger. Evan Rachel Woods and the "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" actress recently snapped a few photos together for The Wrap to prove they're not one and the same.

20. John Mulaney and Grant Gustin

Merely i of these men plays a superhero on TV.
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Tin can we get Mulaney to play an alternate version of Barry Allen on the CW series? The stand-upwards comedian said he's been mistaken for the "Flash" player at the airport earlier.

"Dubai community asked if I was you," Mulaney tweeted at Gustin. "They were super disappointed when I wasn't."

21. Hilary Swank and Jennifer Garner

Hilary Swank said fans don't believe her when she says she'due south non Garner.
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The two-fourth dimension Oscar winner told Conan O'Brien she has been mistaken for the "Alias" actress.

"I do. In fact, people get angry at me considering they think that I'1000 just trying not to sign an autograph for them or accept a motion-picture show," Swank told O'Brien of when fans incorrectly identify her in public.

Swank said it gets to the betoken where fans won't believe her when she tells them she'southward not Garner, so she'll relent.

"They actually said, 'Don't be a b---h,'" she added. "I didn't want to give her a bad name, so I took a photo with them. Possibly someone will say some twenty-four hours, 'That's not Jennifer Garner.'"

Swank said she told Garner about it and was surprised to hear she gets the same.

22. Paul Reubens and Alan Cumming

Pee Wee Herman is on the left.
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Only 1 of these actors is Pee Wee Herman. The other you probably know from his office on "The Good Wife."

23. Jordin Sparks and America Ferrera

Jordin Sparks is on the left while America Ferrera is on the right.
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A lot of people think the "Ugly Betty" star and season half dozen winner of "American Idol" look similar, whether their hair is up or down.

34. Chelsea Handler and Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks (correct) has been told she looks like Chelsea Handler.
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Elizabeth Banks admitted she pretends to exist Handler when people confuse her with the comedian.

"I was sitting in Toronto and a guy walked upwards to me and said, 'Oh my god, my girlfriend loves you. She would dice if I didn't go your shorthand. This is so exciting!'," she said during an appearance on Lately's quondam show "Chelsea Lately" in 2011. "He'southward similar, 'I just beloved your books. I hateful,My Horizontal Life...' I was like, 'Oh, he thinks he's coming together Chelsea Handler.' I couldn't ruin information technology for him!"

35. Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon

I recollect the resemblance was more than pronounced when the two were younger. They both practice have a like facial expression with an arched eyebrow.
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Even Matt Damon says he suffers from a case of mistaken identity every at present and then with the "Transformers" actor. In 2013, "The Martian" thespian told Accented Radio that he discussed the fan defoliation with Wahlberg.

"I've talked to Mark about this because he gets people [that] come up and say, 'I dear you lot in 'The Bourne Identity,'" he said. "And then Mark and I accept a bargain. If we're mistaken for i another, we have to be as polite every bit possible."

Damon said he has fifty-fifty signed his name as Marking's.

37. Lucy Hale and Selena Gomez

Lucy Unhurt (left) has thought information technology was fun to get mistaken for the famous vocaliser in the past.
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The "Pretty Little Liars" extra has previously said she would always get mistaken for the vocalist when younger and she would play forth.

"When I was younger, it was a lot of Selena Gomez, during her 'Wizards of Waverly Identify' days," Unhurt told Insider. "Normally, I would right them, but I remember there was this one time, it was this older lady in an aerodrome, and she was similar, 'Can I get a picture with you?' I thought that she thought I was Lucy."

"Afterward she started listing off the projects that she liked of mine and I speedily realized that she idea I was Selena. And I kind of just went with it because I didn't want to crush her dreams," she continued.

Hale added that she believes there's a group of women in Hollywood who all take a similar vibe including herself, Sarah Hyland, and Maisie Williams.

38. Rupert Grint and Ed Sheeran

Rupert Grint wore matching shirts with Ed Sheeran during the shoot of a music video in 2011.
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The "Harry Potter" star told James Corden he has had people mistake him for the vocalizer and he merely plays forth.

Grint appeared in Sheeran's 2011 music video for "Lego Business firm" where the two wore similar outfits.

39. Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly

Pressly posed with the "I, Tonya" stars at the movie'southward Los Angeles premiere Dec 2017.
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Robbie and Pressly haven't spoken out about getting mistaken for one another, simply fans call back the two are dead ringers despite a 13-twelvemonth age divergence.

In case you call up they're the same person, they have been photographed together and their resemblance is uncanny.

30. Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie

Emma Mackey resembles a young Margot Robbie.
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As soon equally "Sex Didactics" debuted on Netflix many thought young actress Emma Mackey looked a lot similar the "Suicide Squad" star.

Mackey told UK publication PinkNews she heard the comparisons. While she said that's great, she hopes fans volition estimate her acting based on her skills.

"I hope that people will see by the physical aspects of my person and focus on my job every bit opposed to my looks, if that's okay with y'all all," said Mackey.

31. Regina Hall and Regina King

Would y'all mistake Regina Hall for Regina King? The two actresses posed together at the 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards on February 23, 2019.
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Regina Hall said she gets mistaken for Regina Male monarch often, and she's OK with information technology because she winds up getting some of her freebies.

"I hope she wins [more awards], considering people go u.s. confused and I get all the perks," said Hall at the New York Movie Critics Circle Awards in January 2019, according to People. "Seriously, they're like 'Here's a souvenir certificate for Regina King, for $5,000 for Barney'southward' and I'm merely similar, 'I'grand her!'"

Last year, King won the Oscar for all-time supporting extra in "If Beale Street Could Talk."

32. Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver

Susan Sarandon and Sigourney Weaver accept had a few mix ups in the past.
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Susan Sarandon said at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in 2016 that she and Weaver go mistaken for one another.

"I wanna just clarify a few things. Sigourney may have left the phase but we are ii different people. I accept taken credit for 'Alien' many times and she's signed autographs for me," she said at the ceremony, co-ordinate to Page Six.

In 2014, Sarandon wrote an op-ed suggesting Weaver is her "bad-donkey alter ego."

33. Odeya Blitz and Mila Kunis

Both actresses are Jewish immigrants.
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Afterwards Netflix released "Let It Snow," fans immediately thought one of the young stars, Odeya Rush, resembled a younger Mila Kunis. People started comparing photos of the two adjacent online.

Though the ii share similar facial features, the two have different eye colors.

34. Zach Braff and Dax Shepard

Even an app has proven the two look pretty similar, co-ordinate to Braff.
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Even Braff knows the two look akin. He recently said Shepard'south married woman Kristen Bong took a faceswap photo of the 2 and it's hard to tell who'south who.

35. Leelee Sobieski and Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence looks like some other actress y'all may remember from the early on 2000s.
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Earlier Jennifer Lawrence became ane of the biggest stars in Hollywood, there was Leelee Sobieski, who you may retrieve from "The Glass House." The 2 wait strikingly similar whether they don brusque or long hairdos.

Sobieski — who some say also resembles a young Helen Hunt — left Hollywood to focus on being a female parent to her ii children.

36. Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell

It's easier to run across the resemblance when the 2 accept beards.
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Bridges said he has been mistaken for Kurt Russell during a Wired Autocomplete interview.

"I've signed a Kurt Russell photograph," Russell told Dakota Johnson. "People say, 'Kurt, you're my favorite."

Bridges besides said he's been mistaken for Nick Nolte.

37. Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Woods

Have you lot ever mistaken the "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" actors?
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During a session for Wired, the "Harry Potter" actor was asked if he and Elijah Woods are related. Spoiler: They're not.

Radcliffe said the duo have been mistaken for each other many times.

"I am mistaken for him very often. I had a makeup artist on one of my final jobs telling me that I had been in a movie with Vin Diesel that she had only seen the trailer for," Radcliffe told Wired.

38. James McAvoy and Ewan McGregor

James McAvoy said he always gets mistaken for the "Star Wars" player.
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James McAvoy has said people would confuse him often with the "Star Wars" actor, including one fourth dimension in a gym where a immature woman asked for a selfie.

During a monologue on "Saturday Dark Alive" in January 2019, McAvoy made low-cal of fans mistaking him for McGregor.

"In this state, people seem to recognize me from movies like 'Star Wars,' like 'Christopher Robin,' and from 'Trainspotting.' Merely those people would be wrong considering that's Ewan McGregor," he said. "He's the other Scottish role player."

39. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Javier Bardem.

Back in the day, the "Walking Dead" star, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (left), and Javier Bardem looked very like.
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When Jeffrey Dean Morgan entered Seattle Grace Hospital on ABC's "Grey'due south Anatomy" we had to do a double accept to brand sure he wasn't the University Honor winner.

Morgan is now breaking hearts (and bodies) on "The Walking Dead."

40. Helen Mirren and Alexandra Grant

Helen Mirren responded to Keanu Reeves dating reports.
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After Keanu Reeves stepped out with girlfriend, creative person Alexandra Grant, fans immediately started disruptive her for "The Queen" extra, Helen Mirren.

"That was very flattering on me, y'all know, because she'southward obviously lovely," Mirren told "Amusement Tonight" of the comparisons.

Mirren has been married to director Taylor Hackford for more than 20 years.

41. Emily Kinney and Evanna Lynch

Tin can you tell "The Walking Expressionless" and "Harry Potter" stars apart?
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The "Walking Expressionless" and "Harry Potter" stars may take yous doing a double-take.

Kinney played Beth on AMC'southward zombie series for several seasons and Lynch was the lovable Luna Lovegood in Warner Bros.' adaptations of J.K. Rowling's popular franchise.

42. Gerard Butler and Clive Owen

Gerard Butler is on the left while Clive Owen is on the correct.
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We're non the showtime to confuse the "300" and "Children of Men" actors.

When information technology comes downward to it, we remember Butler is more than likely to star in romantic comedies ("Bounty Hunter," "P.S. I Dear You").

43. Glenn Close and Cloris Leachman

Glenn Close, 71, was mistaken for 92-twelvemonth-erstwhile Cloris Leachman.
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Glenn Close told Jimmy Fallon she was mistaken for actress Cloris Leachman by an excited fan while at the premiere for her new movie, "The Wife."

"I was in the hotel and I was in the elevator and the doors opened and this adult female — she had night glasses on. She said, 'Cloris Leachman!'" said Close.

Though Close tried to correct her, the fan wasn't having information technology.

"And I said, 'No, I'm Glenn Shut,' She said, 'No, you're not!'" Close recalled. "And I said, 'Yes, I am.' And and then she said, 'I meant that!'"

Close said she went to her hotel room, and while she believes Leachman is a wonderful actress, she found Leachman was born in 1926 and is 92. Close is 71.

44. Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nosotros could definitely see Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a biopic for Ledger.
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Ever since the 2 co-starred in "10 Things I Hate About You lot," we always idea Gordon-Levitt could play the tardily Ledger's twin.

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