10 Actors And The Historic People They’ve Played
Published: Jul 5, 2025
Actors usually spend there whole life playing other people, but some actors have to play real life historical characters. When they do people expect them to look exactly like the historical person and they do!
Here are 10 actors who’ve played historic people and looked exactly like the character they’ve played:
1. Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything

2. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray

3. Robert Downey Jr as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin

4. Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors

5. Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi

6. Gary Oldman As Ludwig Van Beethoven In Immortal Beloved

7. Hellen Mirren As HM Queen Elizabeth II In The Queen

8. Bruno Ganz As Adolf Hitler In Downfall





