When shooting a biographical film or biopic in short, there are a lot of different things to consider because the movie is based on actual events and people. One of the most important things to consider is casting, the director needs to chose his leading actor wisely and choose someone who will not only look similar to the real person he plays, but also have the right acting style to pull it off. However even after casting the perfect actor, things don’t end there, a good makeup team is needed to help create the character and bring the famous figure to life through the actor. Many actors and directors consider biopics to be most difficult to create and one of the most rewarding when done right. The historical characters have a lifetime of stories behind them and the actor playing the role must understand their story and state of mind to be able to convey the part. Check out this massive list of 65 actors who played a real person in a biopic.
1: T.E. Lawrence played by Peter O’Toole

2: Colonel Joshua Chamberlain played by Jeff Daniels

3: Bernie Tiede played by Jack Black

4: Dorothy Dandridge played by Halle Berry

5: Little Edie played by Drew Barrymore

6: David Foster Wallace played by Jason Segel

7: Abraham Lincoln played by Daniel Day‑Lewis

8: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi played by Ben Kingsley

9: Adolf Hitler played by Bruno Ganz

10: Steve Jobs played by Ashton Kutcher

11: Steve Jobs played by Michael Fassbender

12: Malcolm X played by Denzel Washington

13: Selena Quintanilla played by Jennifer Lopez

14: Margaret Thatcher played by Meryl Streep

15: HM Queen Elizabeth II played by Helen Mirren

16: Alfred Hitchcock played by Anthony Hopkins

17: Johnny Cash played by Joaquin Phoenix

18: Hunter S Thompson played by Johnny Depp

19: Alfred Hitchcock played by Toby Jones

20: Grace Kelly played by Nicole Kidman

21: Frida Kahlo played by Salma Hayek

22: Harvey Milk played by Sean Penn

23: Ludwig van Beethoven played by Gary Oldman

24: Bruce Lee played by Jason Scott Lee

25: Georges Méliès played by Ben Kingsley

26: Howard Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio

27: Che Guevara played by Benicio Del Toro

28: Sarah Palin played by Julianne Moore

29: Buddy Holly played by Gary Busey

30: Claus von Stauffenberg played by Tom Cruise

31: Stephen Hawking played by Eddie Redmayne

32: Richard Milhous Nixon played by Anthony Hopkins

33: Édith Piaf played by Marion Cotillard

34: Winston Churchill played by Albert Finney

35: Jackson Pollock played by Ed Harris

36: Andy Kaufman played by Jim Carrey

37: Muhammad Ali played by Will Smith

38: Niki Lauda played by Daniel Brühl

39: John Eleuthère Du Pont played by Steve Carell

40: June Carter Cash played by Reese Witherspoon

41: Truman Capote played by Philip Seymour Hoffman

42: Sam Riley played by Ian Curtis

43: Truman Capote played by Toby Jones

44: Alan Turing played by Benedict Cumberbatch

45: Sid Vicious played by Gary Oldman

46: Pablo Escobar played by Andrés Parra

47: Pablo Escobar played by Wagner Moura

48: Marilyn Monroe played by Michelle Williams

49: Bob Dylan played by Cate Blanchett

50: Princess Diana Mountbatten-Windsor played by Naomi Watts

51: Mark Zuckerberg played by Jesse Eisenberg

52: Coco Chanel played by Audrey Tautou

53: George S Patton played by George C Scott

54: Fanny Brice played by Barbara Streisand

55: Jim Morrison played by Val Kilmer

56: Jimi Hendrix played by André 3000

57: Ray Charles played by Jamie Foxx

58: Salvador Dali played by Adrien Brody

59: Vincent Van Gogh played by Kirk Douglas

60: Pablo Picasso played by Anthony Hopkins

61: Charlie Chaplin played by Robert Downey Jr.

62: Oscar Wilde played by Stephen Fry

63: Oskar Schindler played by Liam Neeson

64: Nelson Mandela played by Morgan Freeman

65: Sylvester Stallone played by Alfred Matthew Yankovic 😉

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