17 Actors Who Played Real Historical Figures in Famous Biopics (17 Photos)

Let's take a look at 15 actors who have played real people and compare their looks.





About a dozen good films are filmed every year in the world. biographical films, since there is always someone to create such a movie. The fate of many even little-known people with whom something happened hype, worthy of a film being made about them, not even much embellishing real events. What can we say about celebrities from politicians, sports or show business who have spent public life, filled with events.

Now new stars of world cinema are filmed in films about them and even become popular through participation in these projects.

In some cases, we will further explain what exactly the world remembers this or that person embodied on the screen.

1. Ben Affleck as George Reeves



Film "The Death of Superman" (2006).

George Reeves is an American actor who became famous in 50s, the first to play the role of Superman in a feature film.

2. Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky





The film "Frida" (2002).

3. James Franco as Tommy Wiseau



The film "The Disaster Creator" (2017).

Tommy Wiseau - actor, director, producer and screenwriter known for the film "Room" (2003), which entered the history of cinema as the founder of the comic genre "so bad it's good".

4. Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo



The film "Trumbo" (2016).

Dalton Trumbo - Hollywood screenwriter accused at home in anti-American activities and ended up in the so-called "Black Hollywood List. Wrote the script for the films "Roman Holiday", "Spartacus", "Exodus" and "Brave", forced to use pseudonyms.

Twice films based on his script were awarded "Oscar" for the best plot, but for Trumbo the statuette was taken by his friends. Only after the death of the screenwriter, his name was inserted into the credits of the films, and He officially won two Oscars.

5. Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas



The film "Trumbo" (2016).

Kirk Douglas - actor and producer during the "golden era" Hollywood, father of actor Michael Douglas. As a leading actor and producer of the film "Spartacus" took an active part in the restoration the reputation of Dalton Trumbo from the last point.

6. Jennifer Lopez as Selena



The film "Selena" (1997).

Selena is a famous American singer of the 80s and 90s, who was killed at 23 by her boutique manager Yolanda Saldivar.

7. Thomas Sangster as Paul McCartney



The film "Becoming John Lennon" (2009).

8. Emma Thompson as Pamela Lyndon Travers



The film "Save Mr. Banks" (2013).

Pamela Lyndon Travers is an English author of books about Mary Poppins.

9. Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher



The film "The Blind Side" (2009).

Michael Oher is a professional American football player who lived with the foster family of Leanne and Sean Tuhy.

10. Johnny Depp as Eugene Smith



The film "The Great" (2020).

Eugene Smith is an American journalist and photographer who 50s documented the effects of mercury poisoning residents of the Japanese city of Minamata.

11. Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden



Film Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020).

Tom Hayden is an American anti-war social activist, became famous in the 1960s for speaking out against the Vietnam War.

12. Sacha Baron Cohen as Abby Hoffman



Film Trial of the Chicago Seven (2020).

Abby Hoffman - American activist, one of the founders left-wing countercultural Yippie movement.

13. Yuri Borisov as Mikhail Kalashnikov



The film "Kalashnikov" (2020).

14. Paul Walter Houser as Richard Jewell



Film "The Case of Richard Jewell" (2019).

Richard Jewell is a policeman who saved many people during the time of the terrorist attack in the Centennial Olympic Park at the Summer Olympics 1996 games in Atlanta, but who was later erroneously suspected the press in the organization of this very act of terrorism. Jewell was later completely rehabilitated.

15. Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush



The film "Power" (2017).

16. Aidan Gillen and Richard Madden as John Reed



Films "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018) and "Rocketman" (2019).

John Reed is a Scottish music manager who has worked with Queen and Elton John. Coincidentally in both biopics his role was played by the stars of the series "Game of Thrones".