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->''"Your face is familiar..."''
-->-- ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'' ([[CastingGag repeatedly said to the villain]], originally played by Creator/BorisKarloff)

Whenever a resemblance is noted InUniverse between a celebrity and someone else.

It's a relatively common phenomenon. Some people do look alike, but since celebrities have such well known faces, people tend to see their resemblances in other people.

In magazines, this is often poked fun at with side by side photos of celebrities with people who resemble them, often with the caption "SwitchedAtBirth?", and often with the labels swapped.

In a brilliant bit of RefugeInAudacity, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein would invoke this to anyone who approached him in the street, asking him to explain his theories. He would reply "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein." More likely this was probably just a joke, since Einstein had a thick German accent the moment he spoke it would be obvious he was the genuine article. But, even within his lifetime his name had become synonymous with the word "genius".

It can be helpful for actors trying to break into Hollywood to already have this aspect. Some casting agencies will be asked by studios to look for someone who looks like [whatever] celebrity. Similarly, some writers and artists intentionally design fictional characters off of real life celebrities.

Although the audience can definitely feel that a certain character, actor or actress resembles a celebrity, this trope only applies if this resemblance is mentioned or purposely exploited in a work.

Might overlap with CelebrityParadox if said celebrity appears in the work.

A SisterTrope to CelebrityImpersonator (when someone outright tries to look like one).

Compare TextualCelebrityResemblance, SeparatedAtBirthCasting, ComicBookFantasyCasting.

Not to be confused with IdenticalStranger, NoCelebritiesWereHarmed (basing characters off celebrities).

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* A Yuki-fangirl in ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' tells him that she looks like a famous Japanese actress. One of her friends, also squealing over Yuki, immediately says she doesn't.
* In ''Manga/SaintYoungMen'', a passing group of teenage girls remark on Jesus's resemblance to Creator/JohnnyDepp.
* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/ThermaeRomae'' the protagonist Lucius often gets compared to Hiroshi Abe. This is a ShoutOut to the film adaptation, where his part is played by Abe.
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', in a scene removed from the anime, Jolyne says that the guard that watched her masturbate looked like Creator/TomCruise.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* When asked why they moved the apartment (why simply move when you've magic?), [[Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard young Loki]] mentions that the neighbours kept mistaking them for [[Music/OneDirection Harry Styles]]. And when [[Comicbook/MsMarvel2014 Mike and Bruno]]'s "summoning" succeeds, Mike blurts out that Loki "really looks like [[Creator/TomHiddleston that actor guy]]".
* In ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}'', one of the male players gets told he looks like Creator/ViggoMortensen by a random teen. [[http://wiki.olydri.com/index.php?title=Dark_Avenger This is a picture of the character's gaming avatar taken from the original webseries.]]
* Ever since the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse gained prominence, Marvel has loved nodding to it in the comics. For example, [[ComicBook/XMen Storm]] has been mistaken for Halle Berry more than once, and in ComicBook/MarvelComics2 Peter Parker has said that he thinks Jessica Drew's son (the current Spider-Man) looks like Tobey Maguire.
** This is also the reason Ryan Reynolds was eventually cast as ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} (besides his being a fan of the character): Wade once described himself as looking like Reynolds cross-bred with a shar pei.
* ''Comicbook/RedEars'': One gag features a man who looks like Music/FrankSinatra. Everyone he meets notices the resemblance and it annoys him beyond belief. Then, an attractive young lady says to him: "Say, you look a lot like Frank Sinatra." Whereupon the man bursts out singing "My Way".
* People occasionally notice, and [[LampshadeHanging comment upon]], the fact that Clark Kent bears a striking resemblance to ComicBook/{{Superman}}. [[ClarkKenting Nobody ever makes the connection]].
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* When an exploratory team from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' visits [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Earth]] in crossover work ''FanFic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', this happens to Ponder Stibbons. Talked into dressing up for a cosplay night at Stuart Bloom's Comic Book Store, the nerdy and self-conscious young wizard realises that on Earth, his physical and facial resemblence to an older Creator/DanielRadcliffe combined with being dressed as an imagined Earth [[Literature/HarryPotter Wizard]] draws attention.[[note]]Penny and Bernadette spotted it first. They insist he dresses up ''exactly'' this way, in exactly ''these'' sortta clothes.[[/note]] On Earth, Ponder also speaks with an educated British accent. Much to the discomfort of Ponder's actual girlfriend [[note]]in the fics of Creator/AAPessimal, he ''does'' get a love interest[[/note]]. Ponder is mobbed by an admiring crowd. Who ring their friends to come along. Stuart is ecstatic: there have never been this many chicks in the store before.
-->I'm tellin' you, hon, it's Daniel Radcliffe!
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[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
* In ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Twelve]]'', Tess, played by Creator/JuliaRoberts, pretends to be Julia Roberts.
* In ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'', Kenneth bonds with a Gun-Shop owner across the street by communicating via board and playing games on the rooftop. One of said games is "Shoot the Celebrity", which apparently consists of sniping a zombie that resembles a celebrity. So far, he's got to shoot "Jay Leno", "Freddy Mercury" and "Rosie O'Donnel".
* In ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', a drunken girl at the disco mistakes Tony (the protagonist, played by Creator/JohnTravolta) for Creator/AlPacino and urges him to kiss her. Lampshaded when Tony wakes up in the morning and asks himself "Do I really look like Al Pacino?"
* In Russian war drama ''Film/EugeneLittleEugeneAndKatyusha'' Colonel Karavayev is played by famous Soviet actor and singer Mark Bernes. At one point, main character tells that girls like Colonel Karavayev, because he look like Mark Bernes.
* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Creator/BrendanFraser plays a stuntman who was the InUniverse Fraser's stunt double for ''Film/TheMummy1999''. Then later the "real" Fraser appears for the protagonist to set things straight.
* In ''Film/HisGirlFriday'', Walter Burns (Cary Grant) describes rival in love Bruce Baldwin (Creator/RalphBellamy) as "looking like, uh, that guy from the movies, you know... Ralph Bellamy."
* Parodied in ''Film/LastActionHero''. Jack Slater goes after the Ripper in what people [[AllPartOfTheShow assume to be a studio-authorized stunt]] and is tackled by Arnold Schwarzenegger. After getting off him, Arnold praises him as the best celebrity lookalike he'd ever seen and starts offering him appearance gigs.
* ''Film/PlanetTerror'': One of the evil soldiers (played by Creator/QuentinTarantino) makes a point about how Cherry (Creator/RoseMcGowan) resembles Creator/AvaGardner. He also threatens her that if she continues to look at him with contempt that she "won't look like Ava Gardner no more".
* A bit in ''Film/AnnieHall'' where a passer-by is described by Alvy as being the winner of a [[Literature/InColdBlood Truman Capote]] look-alike contest. The guy is played by Truman Capote.
* ''Film/LateSpring'': Noriko's fiancé Satake is said to look like Creator/GaryCooper, "[[Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees the man from that baseball movie]]." (He never appears onscreen.)
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'' has in the bar where Harry meets Harmony a "Native American Joe Pesci" and "punk-rock Steven Seagal".
* ''{{Film/Scream 3}}'' features a cameo from Creator/CarrieFisher playing a receptionist who gets mistaken for the real Carrie. She grumpily says she got called back several times for the role of Princess Leia too.
* ''Film/TheRunaways'' has Kim Fowley going on about how much Cherie Curie resembles Creator/BrigitteBardot.
* In ''Film/KeepTheChange2017'', Angie tells David he looks kind of like [[Music/{{U2}} Bono]].
* {{Parodied}} in ''Film/KangarooJack'' -- according to Charlie, his BFF Louis claims to resemble Creator/DenzelWashington. (He doesn't.)
* ''Film/USMarshals'': Used for a bait-and-switch moment when it looks like fugitive Mark Roberts (played by Creator/WesleySnipes) has been recognised by a security guard... But instead it turns out the guy has mistaken him for Montel Williams. Somehow.
* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' has Ramada being told she looks like somone famous, and she admits, "yes, Gabriela Sabatini. And ironically, I haven't touched a racket in a long time."
* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': In the bowling montage at the beginning of the movie, the guy cleaning the bowling shoes looks a little bit like Saddam Hussein. Later, during a drug trip sequence, he is Saddam, suggesting that the Dude is aware of the resemblance.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheAdrienEnglishMysteries'': Adrien,the bookseller/author in the series of gay mysteries by Josh Lanyon, is dogged by an occasionally remarked-upon close resemblance to Creator/MontgomeryClift. His attitude toward this is generally wry bemusement, once responding to one such observation by asking, "Before or after the accident?"
-->"You remind me of that actor from ''Film/APlaceInTheSun.''"\\
"Creator/ElizabethTaylor?"
* Zoey Franklin from ''Literature/DorkDiaries'' claims she looks like {{Music/Beyonce}} in ''Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl''
* Eleanor from ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'' says that Park's father looks like Tom Selleck.
* In ''Literature/ForcedPerspectives'', the protagonist is assisted by an Egyptian intelligence agent whose name he doesn't learn for some time after they first meet. Until then, he refers to him as "Creator/OmarSharif".
* The eponymous protagonist of ''Literature/{{Gog}}'' orders for people resembling famous historical figures to be brought to his home, taught English and dressed in appropriate outfits in ''A collection of celebrities''. They ended up saying nonsense and acting vulgarly. An Ukrainian peasant who looked like Creator/LeoTolstoy told him that he just wanted to be sent home and that he understands his plight. Gog eventually sent them away, while letting them keep their costumes.
* ''Literature/{{Jago}}'':
** The cult leader Anthony Jago is said to have the eyes of [[Series/JesusOfNazareth Robert Powell as Jesus]] and "the three-weeks-dead expression" of Creator/WilliamSBurroughs.
** Susan recalls that when she first met government spook David Cross, back in the 1960s, he reminded her of [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Illya Kuryakin]].
* ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'': Biracial protagonist Peter Grant is occasionally teased for looking like UsefulNotes/BarackObama. The [[ComicBook/RiversOfLondon comic book]] depiction of him drives home the resemblance.
* ''Literature/SevenStars'': In the chapter "The Trouble With Barrymore", set in 1940s Hollywood, the detective narrator says that the mortuary attendant reminded him so strongly of the kind of seedy character played by Milton Parsons in the movies that he's not convinced it wasn't actually Milton Parsons picking up some extra work.
* William Gibson's ''Literature/VirtualLight'' mentions the exploitation of this trope with an InUniverse computer application that scans a person's features and links them to that of a celebrity that resembles him/her the most, used mostly for laughs and the occasional search for missing persons (the reasoning that telling someone that the person looks like so-and-so celebrity will help them remember him better). The application is used on protagonist Berry Rydell, and it says back that Rydell has a resemblance to Creator/TommyLeeJones.
* In ''Literature/TheWidowOfDesire'' Natalie Stuart is told by her friends that she looks like a brunette Cybill Shepherd.
* Count Fosco in ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' looks like a taller and fatter UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, at least according to Marian Halcombe.
* In ''Literature/{{Rogue}}'', Antonio tells Kiara she looks like Creator/AnnaPaquin.
* Bill from ''Literature/IThinkILoveYou'' is noted by several characters to look like Creator/JeffBridges.
* In ''Literature/TheFold'' Mike repeatedly references how much Olaf looks like Humphrey Bogart. Olaf doesn't know the reference.
* Nadine in ''Literature/DanielFaust'' is often noted to resemble Music/TaylorSwift.
* ''Literature/SirenNovels'': In ''Undercurrent'', Vanessa's mom shows her an old video and asks her if she recognizes anyone in it. Vanessa thinks one man is Creator/GeorgeClooney. He's actually her dad.
* In ''Literature/AMangoShapedSpace'', Mia's mom says that Jerry reminds her of Creator/PaulNewman. Mia says, "The salad dressing guy? No way!"
* Taylor from ''Literature/WildOrchid'' often compares people she meets to celebrities.
** Danny Marsh looks like Creator/DannyDeVito. Taylor hopes he isn't a murderer like the one in ''Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''.
** June from the first book looks like Creator/GwynethPaltrow in ''Film/{{Emma}}''.
** Mrs. Timmons, the woman who interviews Taylor for a job in ''Waiting for No One'', looks like Danny [=DeVito=] from behind and Creator/HelenMirren from the front.
** Garth's new girlfriend, Sadie Richards, looks like Creator/JuliaRoberts.
** Garth looks so much like Music/CatStevens that when Taylor meets him at the bus stop in Cody, she thinks he's Stevens for a moment before recognizing him.
** Alan Phoenix looks like Creator/KevinCostner.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Creator/JimmyCarr's resemblance to UsefulNotes/{{tennis}} star Roger Federer has been remarked upon a few times on Carr's Channel 4 series ''8 Out of 10 Cats,'' and during his appearances on shows like ''A League of Their Own.''
* When Creator/DavidTennant appeared as a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on ''Series/TopGear'', Jeremy Clarkson noted that he "really [is] a good-looking version of Richard Hammond."
* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', [[AmoralAttorney Saul Goodman]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope when he explains to Walt, "If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. [[Series/BetterCallSaul I once told a woman]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNnj2lLTojE I was]] Creator/KevinCostner, and it worked because '''I''' believed it!" [[https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5240913664/h51E9D38B/ No, seriously, he really does.]]
** In the joke alternate ending to the show, where the whole thing was [[AllJustADream just a nightmare]] by Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', when Hal describes the show's characters to Lois, he says that Hank "looked like that guy from ''Series/TheShield''".
* In a flashback on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' which showed when Mike and Gloria first met, Mike claimed that he grew his beard because he looked like Fred Astaire and it was easier to change his look than learn how to dance.
* In "And the Hidden Stash," the second-season premiere of ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls'', Caroline [[WigDressAccent disguises herself with a brunette wig]] to attend the auction of her family's property. Max introduces her to people as Creator/ZooeyDeschanel (whom she actually does resemble in the wig), Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt (which a security guard actually believes) and Katie Holmes.
* In an episode of ''Series/MadAboutYou'', Helen Hunt's character Jamie describes herself as resembling Jodie Foster. This references the fact that, throughout Hunt's career, [[https://twitter.com/Starbucks/status/734866815810031616 she has been compared to Foster]], due to the resemblance between them and the fact that Foster became an established performer a few years before Hunt.
* In ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', there have been a couple of comments on how Ryan Stiles looks like [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie Howser]].
* In ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', the title character, played by Creator/NathanFillion, is jokingly called Creator/JasonBateman. This is a reference to a few real-life incidents where Fillion was mistaken for Bateman.
** Played more seriously, [[spoiler: [=3XK=]]] manages to frame Castle for murder by putting out a classified ad looking for lookalikes for famous writers. Once he finds one (played by Nathan Fillion's stand in), he rejects him for that job but hires him for a seemingly unrelated project, wherein he purchases some earrings found at the crime scene.
* Invoked in ''Series/{{Bones}}'', wherein one VictimOfTheWeek is a pile of bones (obviously), and his facial reconstruction comes out looking like Creator/GeorgeClooney. ''Everyone'' who sees the sketch brings up Clooney first, and the few who recognize the victim go "Huh, I guess he did look sort of like Clooney." It's actually an interesting {{Lampshade}} on the fact that Angela's facial reconstructions are usually spot-on for the victims, which is simply unlikely.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has mentioned several
** As noted by both Abed and Jeff, Britta looks like Creator/ElisabethShue.
** Troy notes that the Dean looks like Music/{{Moby}}.
*** In real life, Creator/JimRash has quite the uncanny resemblance to Creator/JPManoux. [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m45m58L08R1qcev3ao1_500.jpg Guess who got hired to play the "doppledeaner?"]]
** An unseen biracial character is alternately described as a black Creator/MichaelChiklis and a white George Foreman.
---> Britta: HEY! His name is David, and he's a person!
** In the same exchange Jeff calls Abed "brown Jamie Lee Curtis."
** The many "Jeff looks like Ryan Seacrest" jokes.
** Garret is noted to look like Mark David Chapman.
** One episode features the entire gang working for a celebrity impersonator group to pay off Abed's debt to them (ItMakesSenseInContext). Jeff plays Ryan Seacrest, Annie plays Creator/JudyGarland, Abed plays Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Shirley plays Oprah, Pierce plays a fat Creator/MarlonBrando (although he thinks he's playing Burt Reynolds), Troy plays a black Music/MichaelJackson, and Britta plays a white Michael Jackson. This was also the episode where J.P. Manoux's character was introduced as a fake Moby who gets mistaken for the dean.
* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', in the first season, Creator/JPManoux plays a character whom the gang mistakenly believes to be Music/{{Moby}}. It takes a while for them to realize that it's not him, then they start calling him "Not Moby" (which is the name they use for him in the credits).
* The resemblance between Creator/OmarEpps, who plays Foreman in ''Series/{{House}}'', and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was referenced in the episode "Ignorance Is Bliss":
-->'''House:''' Got all of my starters back plus a couple of free agents. I feel like Mike Tomlin. ''(looks at Foreman)'' Probably not as much as you do, but you get the idea.
* ''Series/AuctionHunters'' featured one episode in northern Texas where a competitor bore an uncanny resemblance to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, a resemblance that did not go unnoticed by the two Hunters, who quickly nicknamed him "W". He turned out to be their main competition at that auction.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' lampshades how much Creator/JessicaDeGouw (aka Helena Bertinelli) looks like Carly Foulkes (aka the T-Mobile Girl). Further emphasized by how both are motorcycle riders.
* A RunningGag in ''Series/TheNanny''. Maxwell Sheffield (actor Charles Shaughnessy): "I am NOT Creator/PierceBrosnan!"
** In "Val's Boyfriend", Maxwell's business partner [[RichBitch C.C. Babcock]] temporarily quits the partnership, so Fran helps them get back together by making her think Maxwell needs help signing Music/MarvinHamlisch onto a new production; in reality, he's Fran's former high school music teacher, Alan Neider, played by Hamlisch.
* The episode of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' "[=iLookalike=]" makes it known that Malese Jow is Creator/MirandaCosgrove's doppelganger.
* ''Series/IronChef America'' took this and ran with it. When guest chefs Nicola and Fabrizio Carro (identical twins) came to compete, Iron Chef Michael Symon teamed up with Chef Michael Psilakis to compete. Due to identically cut facial hair, the Michaels actually looked more alike than the real twins they were competing against.
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers drummer Chad Smith had already [[http://i29.tinypic.com/1scop0.jpg once]] worn a shirt reading "I am not Creator/WillFerrell". Then Creator/JimmyFallon arranged for both to attend ''Series/TheTonightShow'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsWHyBOk2iQ wearing identical outfits]], making it impossible to tell them apart. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBOtQOO70Y The drum showoff later]] made it easier (without the jacket, Chad's tattoos are visible).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrZGvH76CA Another case in]] ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon'' had Creator/JessicaChastain recalling that when she was starting her acting career she got recognized as an actress and was ecstatic, until the mentions of ''Film/TheVillage2004'' made her go along and pretend she was Creator/BryceDallasHoward. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipObSiFHpyY And it would not the be the first time either were confused for each other.]]
* ''Series/MyKitchenRules'': In the second round of Season 6, when the contestants first met each other, many were quick to point out how much oyster farmer Rob looks like ''Film/{{Thor}}'''s Creator/ChrisHemsworth. The two are apparently cousins, so this is justified.
* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', it's implied that George met someone offscreen who resembled actor George Peppard. He thought it was the real deal, and brags about it to Jerry, who points out that George Peppard died years ago.
-->'''George:''' Well, whoever he was, he knew a lot about ''Series/TheATeam''!
** One episode revolves around George noting a resemblance between his new boss and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, and said boss [[MistakenForRacist assuming George thinks all black people look alike]]. After George spends the entire episode trying and failing to prove he is not racist, a black waiter actually mistakes George's boss for Sugar Ray. Unfortunately for George, his boss is already out of earshot at that point.
** Kramer encounters a Creator/SalmanRushdie lookalike at the gym, and is convinced he's the real deal, though Jerry and Elaine are both pretty sure he isn't. When Kramer strikes up a conversation with him in the sauna, he says he is indeed a writer, confirms that he has been to the Middle East, and introduces himself as Sal Bass (as in the fish), which is all the proof Kramer needs. We never actually find out for sure if he was the real one or not.
--->'''Kramer:''' Jerry, are you ''blind''?! He's a ''writer''. He said his name was Sal ''Bass''. Bass, Jerry! Instead of salmon, he went with bass! He just substituted one fish for another!\\
'''Jerry:''' Look, you idiot. First of all, it's "Salman", not "Salmon"!\\
'''Kramer:''' Jerry! Jerry! You're missing the big picture!
* ''Series/TheGrahamNortonShow'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfm8pIuPbY received two "victims" of this at once.]] Creator/SamuelLJackson acknowledged he and Creator/LaurenceFishburne are often mistaken for each other, even during interviews or attending the same place. Meanwhile, Creator/KeiraKnightley admitted sometimes people get pictures with her thinking they're meeting Creator/NataliePortman ([[SeparatedAtBirthCasting something that landed Knightley a role in]] ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''). Keira also claims that she's been mistaken for Kate Winslet and Britney Spears, joking that she prefers taking a picture as Britney than she does as herself.
* In ''Series/YoungAndHungry'', Gabi mentions people in China thought she was Music/CarrieUnderwood whom people note Creator/EmilyOsment looks like.
* The CBS prank show ''I Get That a Lot'' plays with this by presenting real celebrities such as their reality show hosts like [[Series/TheAmazingRace Phil Keoghan]] working real-life jobs, such as a clerk at a gas station. If somebody recognizes them, they pretend not to actually be the celebrity in question, using the line "I get that a lot," or various variations of it. Sometimes, as an added gag, the celebrity will tell one of the people being pranked that ''they'' look like a particular celebrity. The denial will continue until the time comes to bring out the hidden cameras, at which point the celebrity in question reveals that they ''are'' in fact that celebrity and the folks who thought so ''aren't'' crazy.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has a seducer trying to charm Sabrina by saying she looks like a blonde Creator/AudreyHepburn.
* On ''Series/CornerGas'', Brent is embarrassed by high school photos of himself because he had [[EightiesHair feathered hair]] and "looked like a fat Creator/ShaunCassidy".
* Mutually on the Creator/FoodNetwork, there is a strong resemblance between Bobby Flay and Tyler Florence, to the point where they could be brothers.
* Played with in one episode of ''Series/MurderSheWrote,'' when a fan recognizes Jessica - which happens often enough, as she's a celebrity in-universe. However, the fan in question insists that Jessica is a soap opera actress, and when Jessica shows the woman her photo on the back of one of her books and tries to tell her who she really is, the woman snaps, "No, you're not!" and storms away. (As we never see the fictional actress in question, it's unknown how strong the resemblance really is.)
* One episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Slater recommending using Celebrity Resemblance as a way to impress your date's mother, telling her that she looks like an attractive actress; he had ingratiated himself with Jessie's mother by saying she looked like Candice Bergen. This backfires for poor Screech, who proceeds to ask ''his'' date's mother, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Arnold Schwarzenegger?"
* On ''Series/TrailerParkBoys'', Julian is often made fun of for his resemblance to Creator/PatrickSwayze, and Ricky is often made fun of for his resemblance to Canadian stage hypnotist Peter Reveen. This is a ''huge'' BerserkButton for both characters.
* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': White Josh thinks Darryl looks like Creator/TomSelleck.
* ''Series/{{Bargearse}}'' spoofs the RealPersonCameo by claiming that various actors are actually famous persons who resemble them, like fugitive embezzler [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Skase Christopher Skase]], cricketer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Yallop Graham Yallop]], Australian politicians [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Chipp Don Chipp]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwyn_Bishop Senator Bronwyn Bishop]], and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Beazley Kim Beazley]], as well as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Lenin]].
* In an episode of ''Series/JustShootMe'', Nina admitted to Jack Gallo that when they first met, she thought he was Elliot Gould.
* ''Series/BroadCity'':
* ''Series/MagicCity'': It's discussed that Judi Silver looks like Creator/MarilynMonroe.
** In "Working Girls", Lincoln names one of Ilana's dogwalking clients Creator/JudithLight after [[YourTomcatIsPregnant his]] appearance.
** In "Destination: Wedding", Lincoln is said to resemble Creator/IdrisElba.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin is an ElvisImpersonator who bears an uncanny resemblance to the King of RockAndRoll. After he is sent back in time to July 3, 1954, the real Music/ElvisPresley mistakes him for his identical twin brother Jesse, who died at birth and has [[BackFromTheDead seemingly been brought back to life]]. After Elvis is [[InertialImpalement impaled on the neck of his guitar]], Gary [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumes his identity]] and manages to fool everyone except [[ParentsKnowTheirChildren Elvis' mother Gladys]]. There's an implication of StableTimeLoop, since Gary-as-Elvis makes decisions based on his idea of Elvis, while the actual Elvis Presley might have acted entirely different on his own.
* A RunningGag in ''Series/{{Detectorists}}'' is the fact that antagonists Paul and Phil look like Music/SimonAndGarfunkel.
* There's a RunningGag in ''Series/GimmeGimmeGimme'' of Linda being compared to actress Creator/SuPollard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Madonna}} has done this often in her career. Her music videos from the 1980s have her dressed in glamorous shout-outs to famous movie actresses of the past, most notably Creator/MarleneDietrich and Creator/MarilynMonroe.
* The video for Music/KatyPerry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKKbboquS9s "Not the End of the World"]] plays on her own oft-noted resemblance to Creator/ZooeyDeschanel, with the plot being about Zooey getting [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]] who are obsessed with Katy and mistook the two.
* In Music/MarinaDiamandis' "Hollywood," she sings about a security guard mistaking her for Music/{{Shakira}} and Creator/CatherineZetaJones.
--> ''As soon as I touch down in L.A.\\
He said, "Oh my god! You look just like Shakira\\
No, no, you're Catherine Zeta"\\
"Actually, my name's Marina."''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Podcasts]]
* In episode three of ''Podcast/MysteryShow'', a witness describes Hans Jordi, who Starlee is searching for, by comparing him to actor Armin Mueller Stahl.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/ChrisJericho famously compared Wrestling/CrashHolly to [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Elroy Jetson]]. The name caught on to the point that even commentator Wrestling/JimRoss started calling him "Elroy."
* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} fans compared Arik Cannon to The Kool-Aid Man.
* During Wrestling/JohnCena's feud with Wrestling/TheNexus, he called Wrestling/HeathSlater "the chick from Wendy's" and compared Wrestling/DarrenYoung to [[Film/OurGang Buckwheat]].
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[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Jeremy Hotz once had an interesting encounter while walking his dog in the park.
-->'''Man:''' ''[yelling from far away]'' Is that you, Creator/NicolasCage, you motherfucker?!\\
'''Jeremy:''' No, I'm not Nicolas Cage!\\
'''Man:''' Oh, I ''know'' my Nicolas Cage, and you're Nicolas Cage, you motherfucker!\\
''[The man walks up to Jeremy and studies his face closely]''\\
'''Man:''' ''[angrily]'' You're not Nicolas Cage, [[NeverMyFault you lying motherfucker]]!\\
'''Jeremy:''' I told you, I'm not Nicolas Cage. ''[{{beat}}]'' ...I'm Creator/AlPacino. ''[to audience]'' [[RefugeInAudacity So I signed an autograph for him and got the hell out of there]].
* Brad Williams describes during an episode of ''This Is Not Happening'' about being mistaken for what he calls 'The midget of the moment''. That being [[Series/{{Jackass}} Wee-Man]]. He rolls with it until a woman who had sex with Wee-Man outs him. And the kicker when she shows him a picture...
-->'''Brad''': That's my other dwarf friend, Shaun.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': One of the possible {{Muta|nts}}tions that can be [[TheCorruption inflicted]] by Chaos exposure causes the victim's face to transform into the likeness of an important person of the GameMaster's choosing.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', when a merchant in Celdic sees through Princess Alfin's PaperThinDisguise of wearing her schoolgirl uniform, she plays it off as this, and the game's main playable character, Rean Schwarzer, plays along by claiming she's his little sister.
* ''Videogame/Hitman2016'':
** 47 happens to look just like male model Helmut Kruger. In the Paris level, Kruger himself is scheduled to meet with one of 47's targets. [[KillAndReplace You can see where this is going]]. It also comes to play in the Hokkaido level, where 47 can infiltrate a hospital by pretending to be a plastic surgery patient who wants to look like Kruger.
** Approaching a bodyguard while wearing the Requiem Suit will have them ask if 47 is Music/{{Pitbull}}.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', if you choose to go out in the evening with Rise during the summer festival, then a candy apple vendor recognizes her as being a TV idol. However, she plays it as a case of this.
* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the player character apparently looks like the founder of Communism, Kras Mazov. You can go around insisting you are him, and other characters will note the resemblance, but you're obviously the wrong age. He also looks like former disco star Guillaume le Million, which is something he partly cultivated in the hope that some of the 'stardust' would rub off on him - a couple of small RedHerring scenes early on can have the player character and Klaasje suspect that he ''is'' Guillaume, but he's not.
* In ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077'', during a mission with Goro Takemura, an old man will confuse him with a comedian named Hideshi Hino. He'll try to get "Hideshi" to say his old catchphrase "Better buckle up!", which V can also goad him with. Upon indulging him, the old man laments that Hideshi Hino has truly fallen. In the Phantom Liberty DLC, V can actually meet Hideshi Hino himself, who when told by V that they know someone who looks just like him responds that he's always looking for a body double.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/MrBoop'': Dr. Sonic the Hedgehog (no relation) dates a woman because of her resemblance to Betty Boop.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/ProfoundMomentsInLeft4Dead2'': The first appearance of a Boomer prompts [=djy1991=] to shout "Hey guys, [[MistakenForBadass it's]] [[Creator/ValveSoftware Gabe Newell]]!"
* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}, when riffing on Website/{{Newgrounds}} horror-themed Flash games, generally doesn't have the kind of reaction the creators were probably expecting. One particular instance [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxjSoQcvSo?t=347 from "Assjoe's Sacrificium"]] involves a JumpScare with the girl from ''Film/TheRing'' - while usual host slowbeef barely acknowledges that the jumpscare happened, PA Master is rather concerned... because he thought it was Creator/MacaulayCulkin's screaming face from ''Film/HomeAlone''.
* The ''WebVideo/{{React}}'' series is rife with these due to the large cast, but here's the ones mentioned in-series:
** Rachel has a passing resemblance to Creator/SibelKekilli. It finally pays-off during "Teens React to Series/GameOfThrones" in which Rachel remarks that Tyrion Lannister is her favorite character. Unsurprisingly, one of the most liked comment in that video is from someone saying that "she looks like Shae."
** The flip-side happens during the "Try Not To Laugh or Grin Challenge" featuring the Wrestling/{{WWE}} superstars when a few of them have commented that one guy in the video they were watching looks a lot like their colleague [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]].
** During the second "Try Not To Feel Old Challenge", the original Madison [[ProudBeauty compares herself]] to Creator/PamelaAnderson.
** During "Adults React to Music/MarinaDiamandis", Dionte mentions that the singer reminds him of fellow reactor Sheila (the scene then follows with Sheila fangirling over the singer).
* Horror review channel Trasheira Violenta has at times noted "[[PoorMansSubstitute discount versions]]" of famous actors in the movies they review, while also giving them punny nicknames. For instance, ''[[https://youtu.be/-9wPe5Y3CFE?t=78 Titanic 666]]'' has "[[Creator/CharlizeTheron Char-Lose Theron]]", "[[Creator/VivicaAFox Vivica A. Dog]]", "[[Creator/CourteneyCox Courtney Flopx]]", "Creator/{{Bradley Coo|per}}" and "[[Creator/DwayneJohnson Dwayne 'The Pop' Johnson]]".
* ''WebVideo/TitlePending'': One of the actor candidates mistakes Cameron James for Creator/JamesCameron and is somehow convinced they're filming the next ''Franchise/{{Avatar}}'' film. And has found its "leaked script" that is just the ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' transcript.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman", Creator/WernerHerzog notes that Tom [=DuBois=] bears a strong resemblance to UsefulNotes/BarackObama; both of them are very liberal, light-skinned black attorneys, however Obama is more wealthy, powerful, and attractive than [=DuBois=]. Herzog explains that this is the reason why Tom's wife Sarah has such a {{fangirl}}ish crush on Obama.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', many claim that the Principal Lewis has an uncanny resemblance to the rapper Music/RickRoss.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Horror IX" story "Hell Toupée", Snake is executed and Homer gets his scalp for a hair transplant. When he shows it off, Marge says "If your fly weren't open, you'd look just like Creator/RogerMoore."
** In "Mother Simpson", when Homer is reunited with his long-lost mother Mona, he tells her "Some people say I look like Creator/DanAykroyd."
* This is a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' where LoonyFan Pepper Mills keeps confusing famous historical figures for celebrities. She'll go up to someone like George Washington, make a big deal about how she's their biggest fan, and then ask for an autograph before realizing "Hey, you're not Michael Jackson!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Friends with Burger-fits," the manager of a rival restaurant repeatedly refers to Bob Belcher as "fat Creator/BurtReynolds." Bob is sporadically compared to Burt Reynolds in seasons following that incident.
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