10 Actors Who Are Identical to the Characters They Played

An actor or actress who plays a person who existed always has a big challenge ahead of them. Ideally, the person forgets about himself for a while and immerses himself completely in this other life story. Russell Crowe, for the role of the famous mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, paid close attention to hand movements to give more veracity to the interpretation. On the other hand, Emile Hirsch lost 18 kg to face the role of Christopher McCandless. These difficulties are frequent in biographical films, and the results are often impressive.

We found some photos of famous people whose lives were made into movies. See what real actors and characters look like. The interesting thing is to try to understand if the resemblance is natural or just the result of good makeup and a great interpretation.

Christopher McCandless is an American who has taken a solo trip to an isolated part of Alaska. After graduating from university, he donated his money and started the journey. McCandless really liked the idea of ​​getting by without a lot of money and perks.

Back in Alaska, he wrote a diary. In total, McCandless described 189 days of his life in the wild. After 4 months he died of exhaustion. There is another version, that he would have died from complications caused by seeds that he would have ingested.

Julia Child was an American chef. Her interest in cooking came after World War II, when her husband ordered a fish dish at a restaurant and she found it so delicious that she immediately wanted to learn to cook the same way.

Fame came when she appeared on a television show with a frying pan and several eggs, and prepared her famous omelette. Success was immediate and quickly the first episodes of the program The French Chef were released.

Aron Ralston is an American adventurer. During a trail in the State of Utah (USA), his forearm got stuck in a rock. Aron managed to stay in position for 5 days, until food and water ran out.

There was only one way out: Aron had to amputate his hand to get out of the trap. Miraculously, he managed to face the pain and loss of blood and walked many kilometers in the desert, until he came across a group of tourists who called a rescue helicopter. Aron survived and became an example of bravery for many adventurers.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the greatest composers in history, was Austrian and had a phenomenal musical ear. His father, Leopold, was a violinist and composer. Perhaps this was his greatest and most important influence.

Leopold took his son on a big music tour, and after 3 years little Wolfgang, then just 10 years old, proved to be a genius. From there he began composing for royalty.

Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg was a colonel in the Wehrmacht, a participant in the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler. The group of conspirators, after the death of the Führer, thought that it would be possible to conclude a peace agreement that would avoid the final defeat of Germany. But the plans did not come true: the plot was discovered, and the participants were executed.

In post-war Germany, the attitude towards the conspirators was ambiguous. Until the 60s, they were considered traitors. In modern Germany, July 20th is considered a day of mourning for the executed.

The movie is based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis. This one, in turn, is based on the true story of Billy Beane, manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. Moneyball chronicles Beane’s attempts to create a competitive team for Oakland’s 2002 season despite the team’s poor financial situation, using sophisticated statistical analysis of players. Under his stewardship, the Athletics became the most profitable team and one of the best of the season.

Bill Gates, one of the creators of Microsoft, was the company’s CEO for many years. After stepping down, he remained on the board. Additionally, Gates is one of the people who has donated the most money to charity. The billionaire has a relatively modest lifestyle, considering the size of his net worth.

Lee Harvey Oswald was the only official suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Under US law, a deceased cannot be tried, but according to the Warren Commission, he was declared a murderer.

According to the conclusions of the commission, in 5.6 seconds he fired 3 shots at the president’s car. Many critics were not in agreement with the result of the commission’s work, and therefore made other assumptions.

Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved the lives of nearly 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. After what happened in the Kraków ghetto in 1942, Schindler decided to negotiate with senior Nazi officials for the opportunity to take the Jews condemned to death in the Plaszow concentration camp into their business.

The number of people saved by Schindler was approximately 1,200 (800 men, 300 women and 100 children).

John Nash was an American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. He is the author of the ‘Nash Equilibrium’: it represents a situation in which, in a game involving two or more players, no player has to gain by unilaterally changing his strategy.

Nash was unable to go to Stockholm to receive the Nobel because he was already in very poor health. On the other hand, a seminar was organized with his participation where his importance for Game Theory was discussed.

What did you think of the stories and similarities between the actors and the people they played? Not all are super similar, but there is no denying that the performances were all very remarkable.