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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat famous person do you most resemble?
Not today, but about 25 years ago, I heard a few times that I looked like Michael Andretti, race-car driving son of Mario Andretti.

FSogol
(47,684 posts)True Dough
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Haggard Celine
(17,960 posts)At least they used to say that when I was young. I don't think I really look like him now.
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Haggard Celine
(17,960 posts)I have trouble posting pictures. I would have to get out the directions Skittles mailed me on how to post pictures. I can do it, but it takes time.
pdxflyboy
(963 posts)n/t
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bamagal62
(4,635 posts)Now, not so much.
True Dough
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cloudbase
(6,332 posts)I was tagged with the nickname "Jerry Lewis."
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LuckyCharms
(23,378 posts)I have been told at points in my life that I was the spitting image of these two below.
Today, I'm not sure who I look like.
When I was young, I was told looked like a young Rick Danko:

As I aged a bit, put on some weight and grew out my beard, I was told I looked like Lowell George:

True Dough
(27,591 posts)I've never heard of either of those people.
Now, LuckyCharms? I'd heard about LuckyCharms all my life!
LuckyCharms
(23,378 posts)Both have now passed on.
Two videos:
biophile
(1,650 posts)Now I look like Liz Taylor in her old age - not aging as gracefully as Id hoped 🧐🙄😬
mopinko
(74,165 posts)of national velvet liz at the same age. it came as a shock to me, cuz my sisters convinced me i was a little troll.
biophile
(1,650 posts)I was not lovely in my teenage years- glasses, no style, long straight hair and bad skin. But by my 30s I had a comfort with myself, gotten contacts and (mostly) outgrown acne.
A friend saw a picture of me at age 33 and said Oh my God, (Biophile), you were hot! The real twist was the incredulous tone in her voice and the were - like, OMG, what the hell happened to you? 😏.
mopinko
(74,165 posts)i WAS pretty when i was younger. i guess im not bad for an old lady, but
when my ex used to tell me i was pretty i was almost insulted. like- how stupid does he think i am?
1 of many reasons i dont talk to my sisters much.
the whole thing was rly reinforced in the days i used to hang out w my younger sister. im objectively better looking than her. i just am. she has my moms schnoz and crooked teeth. but she always put so much more effort into looking good. she was much better than me at makeup. so she got way more attention than i did.
it taught me a lot about beauty in america. these rich women who do all that plastic surgery, and go to such lengths to b beautiful r being valued for the lengths they go to, not the results.
biophile
(1,650 posts)The women look grotesque with all that surgery. I understand an eyelid lift or maybe a chin tuck but the extreme stuff is actually frightening. The cheek implants and slant eye pulling is freaky. I stopped dyeing my hair- Im done pretending that Im not 70. My husband is 80 and Ive told him that no matter how old I am- Im always 10 years younger than him! ☺️
mopinko
(74,165 posts)for quite a few yrs ppl wd insist it was just frosted, and who did it? now its silver. i love it.
never wore makeup after my 20s either. it felt like a little lie, and i just dont lie.
maybe thats what those men want, a woman who lies.
Aristus
(72,695 posts)My late mother-in-law kept up the hair-dying and plastic surgery until she died. She would have looked much better without all of that.
True Dough
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No shame in that!
biophile
(1,650 posts)But I was never a great beauty- just the interesting combination of light skin, dark hair, and blue eyes with dark brows. It was that similar combination that made the resemblance seem greater than it ever was.
Figarosmom
(14,451 posts)With the dark hair, light skin and violet/ blue eyes. Her eyes would change color depending on what color she was wearing.
GreenWave
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Marthe48
(23,698 posts)Better for the ego
True Dough
(27,591 posts)"Marthe" Stewart? Or if you feel like Snoop Dog is a better match, that's fine too!

Marthe48
(23,698 posts)Not even on a good day in a good year
Marthe48
(23,698 posts)I was preoccupied, or I would've added this to my comment
BarbaRosa
(2,733 posts)Willie Nelson on occasion.
Mad_Dem_X
(10,252 posts)that I resembled Adrian from the Rocky movies (Talia Shire). When I got older, someone said I looked like Sandra Bullock.
Bayard
(30,591 posts)Helen Hunt as I got older. Now, more like Willie Nelson.
True Dough
(27,591 posts)I have a hard time believing that!

Bayard
(30,591 posts)Fla Dem
(27,851 posts)In fact people just meeting me would say, "I'm amazed at how much you resemble _________. Of course I was pleased I resemble this person and through the years that resemblance has hung in there.
Brother Buzz
(40,563 posts)Appearance, but mostly voice; people would hear me speak and say I looked like Tom Hanks.
True Dough
(27,591 posts)a "buzzed" Tom Hanks:

Brother Buzz
(40,563 posts)His younger brother, Jim, not so much, even though I sound more like him.
Norrrm
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Sneederbunk
(17,724 posts)MoonlightHillFarm
(99 posts)True Dough
(27,591 posts)perfessor
(399 posts)Similar hair and glasses to the Excitable Boy album.
Niagara
(12,373 posts)Rachelle Lefevre. She played the vampire Victoria in the original Twilight's (2008 & 2009).

However, other people tell me that I not only look like Joan Cusack but that I sound like her too!

One of these days I'm going to try to dress up as Debbie Addams for Halloween.
biophile
(1,650 posts)As Victoria, Bryce Dallas Howard
Niagara
(12,373 posts)Definitely the "Victoria"!
Americanme
(594 posts)But I think I've aged better than he has.
True Dough
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Americanme
(594 posts)But it gets lighter with every passing year.
Mme. Defarge
(9,108 posts)chicoescuela
(3,318 posts)madamesilverspurs
(16,562 posts)Based mostly on the hairstyle.
These days I mostly resemble Mollie Sugden (sans blue hair, and I am unanimous in that!).
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Diamond_Dog
(41,414 posts)I was told I looked like Susan Dey on The Partridge Family.
Obviously I am much older now and thats a distant memory.
poli-junkie
(1,612 posts)I dont know how to display pic.
-misanthroptimist
(1,926 posts)...that I resemble one V. I. Lenin.
The resemblance is only skin deep, fortunately.
dweller
(28,864 posts)I was told I resembled

I even have that button and belt buckle
But nowadays
more like

😐
✌🏻
Figarosmom
(14,451 posts)dweller
(28,864 posts)😐
✌🏻
Figarosmom
(14,451 posts)Figarosmom
(14,451 posts)Last edited Sat May 23, 2026, 07:17 PM - Edit history (1)
But I think my sister looks more like her.
And had a high school teacher that called me Sophia because he thought I looked like Sophia Loran.
Of course now it's with grey hair since I became allergic to hair dyes.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,499 posts)Actually, I'm supposed to look like a great-gandmother who died long before I was born. If photos of her still exist, I've never seen one.
1WorldHope
(2,210 posts)I've always had the dark circles around my eyes.
Bluestocking
(869 posts)So I guess that is who I resemble
The Wizard
(13,922 posts)WestMichRad
(3,493 posts)It aint easy being green.
Vinca
(54,508 posts)felt as if I was watching myself when I was young. It turns out it was the British actress Brenda Blethyn who later went on to play roles such as "Vera," one of my all-time favorite shows. At the time I was so amazed by the likeness to young me, I actually tried checking around to see if we might be related somehow since my roots are British. Never found anything, but it was weird.
a kennedy
(36,680 posts)choie
(7,085 posts)some said I reminded them of Paula Abdul.
True Dough
(27,591 posts)They said that, Straight up?
choie
(7,085 posts)Aristus
(72,695 posts)The first time was when he was on Friends. Young, more slender, and clean-shaven. Now that he and I are older, and have graying beards, people still say I look like him.
True Dough
(27,591 posts)it would look something like this?

Luciferous
(6,623 posts)LudwigPastorius
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nuxvomica
(14,362 posts)With the exact same voice as Jeff Goldblum. I know, I'm a monster! A monster!
NJCher
(43,751 posts)Last edited Sun May 24, 2026, 02:06 PM - Edit history (1)
I look a lot like Rupert Murdoch.
on edit 5/24
Wahhhh. No one is laughing at my joke.
unblock
(56,305 posts)It's not near the stereotype about black people, but I swear there seems to be quite a lot of people who think all Jews look alike.
I've gotten Dustin Hoffman, jerry Seinfeld, and Gilbert gottfried over the years. I don't see my resemblance to any of them other than sure, we're all Jewish....
bobalew
(499 posts)Last edited Sun May 24, 2026, 07:44 AM - Edit history (2)
of George RR Martin...
When I worked at Waymo at GoogleX.,
all the Labs I in which I was working were named after places in Game of Thrones.
How is that for serendipity? I also looked so much like Bobby Goldsboro that my grandmother thought I was him, when I was in my 20's.
Emile
(43,938 posts)mnhtnbb
(33,569 posts)I looked like Natalie Wood!
