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Actors Who Look Nothing Like The Real-Life Figures They Played
ByPaul Gaita
Biopics — movies based on the lives of real figures from history and culture — have been a cinema staple since the invention of motion pictures.
Biography: Sian Graham is an Bardi-Jawi and Noongar woman from One Arm Point in the Kimberley and the Balladong region of Western Australia.
One of the earliest films ever made, "The Execution of Mary Stuart," directed by Thomas Edison in 1895, depicts the death of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587. The next century of filmmaking saw studios release countless biographical films, many of which are now considered classics: "Young Mr. Lincoln," "Gandhi," "The Last Emperor," "Ray," — the list goes on and on.
In many of these and other cases, filmmakers found actors who could not only transform themselves performance-wise into these famous figures but also bore an uncanny resemblance to them.
Notable examples include Sir Ben Kingsley in "Gandhi," Val Kilmer in "The Doors," and more recently, Cillian Murphy in "Oppenheimer." And then there are those actors who looked nothing like t