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When selecting the cast for a biopic, or biographical movie, the director must walk a fine line between selecting someone for their physical similarity vs. selecting them for having the thespian talent required to play the part. Here's a list of actors who definitely succeeded on the physical similarity side of things.
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Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock
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Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane and Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything
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Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side
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Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady
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Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandella in Invictus
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Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs
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Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel in Coco Before Chanel
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Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia
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Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida
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Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall
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Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy
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Geoffrey Rush as Peter Sellers in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X
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Daniel Day ‑ Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln
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Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
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Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
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Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind The Candelabra
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Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi
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Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors
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Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
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Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena
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Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin
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Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
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Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali in Midnight In Paris
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Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne Frank in Anne Frank: The Whole Story
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Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster
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Bill Hader as Andy Warhol
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James Franco as James Dean in James Dean
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Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
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Anthony Hopkins as Picasso in Surviving Picasso
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Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose/la Môme
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Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
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John Goodman as Babe Ruth
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Gary Busey as Buddy Holly
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James Stewart as Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story
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