Gransnet forums

Chat

Do you, or anyone in your family, look like anyone famous?

(121 Posts)
Kandinsky Wed 24-Aug-22 09:19:46

My dh looks a bit like Martin Shaw ( judge John Deed, The Professionals etc )

TwiceAsNice Fri 26-Aug-22 15:32:46

Unfortunately my brother has always looked like Prince Andrew

Lulu16 Fri 26-Aug-22 15:50:19

Nobody famous, but I appear to have the face that people recognise. In the past people have asked, 'did you ever teach in Leicestershire?' ' are you so-and-so's sister?' ' haven't I seen you before on this train?'.
The answers are no, no and no!!

Duvetdiva Fri 26-Aug-22 15:52:39

Hellogirl1

Does anyone remember Mandy Miller, a little girl who made a few films in the 50s? When I was 9 my auntie took me to see the film Mandy, she was 8 at the time, and on the way out people were pointing at me and saying "It`s Mandy Miller!"

I too apparently looked like MM as a little girl. More recently I’ve had Rosamund Pike and Diane Keaton (I wish on both counts)
What about you now Hellogirl1?
It would be funny it you’ve had the same

Bennydian Fri 26-Aug-22 16:18:04

My father was often taken for Sean Connery. He has been asked many times for photos with people and his autograph. Which on one occasion had the requestee state that he even signed with "an accent". He had signed his own name.

TanaMa Fri 26-Aug-22 16:48:40

My dear Mum looked like the Queen in her younger days. A blind friend, who liked to 'feel faces' to 'see' what people looked like, always said she was like the Queen. He hadn't always been blind but lost his sight to an acid thrown in his face by a jealous girlfriend!
My late husband looked like Tony Curtis.

Gabrielle56 Fri 26-Aug-22 17:31:58

Since childhood at all stages of my life I've looked like the queen, and queen Mary depending on my age. It's my actual features and expression my hair was also exactly same as queen's when she was a child! Me- royal? Nope!

Camelotclub Fri 26-Aug-22 17:46:15

My cousin looks quite like Hugh Grant.

Camelotclub Fri 26-Aug-22 17:56:54

In the 1980s I used to wear those big specs that were all the fashion and some kids sitting on a wall asked me if I was in Coronation Street. They thought I was Deirdre Barlow! Wrong accent, this was Hammersmith.

grandmac Fri 26-Aug-22 17:59:18

My son is a George Clooney doppelgänger. And my DiL (his wife) looks like Sarah Jessica Parker. Going out and about with them is hilarious as people do double takes and start walking backwards to keep them in sight.

Gala Fri 26-Aug-22 18:05:21

My MiL said I looked like the actress Frances de la Tour (gulp); and that her son, my OH, looked like Noel Edmonds. He doesn't.
My younger son when aged 2, once kissed the tv & said 'Aaw Ganma' (my MiL) when it showed a head & shoulders photo of Geoffrey Howe. grin

MissAdventure Fri 26-Aug-22 18:22:33

grin

Anniel Fri 26-Aug-22 19:48:57

My dear late husband was always being told he looked like the late Michael Williams, Judi Dench’s husband so we went to a play they were both in and indeed they were alike. I have followed the career of Dame Judi ever since

Dancinggran Fri 26-Aug-22 19:59:49

Everyone said my dad looked like John Thaw

janipans Fri 26-Aug-22 21:01:20

My youngest daughter has been mistaken for someone in Loose Women (much to her disgust as the actress is much older than her)!
My eldest daughter was in Brentwood to meet me for lunch and a shopkeeper mistook her for someone from TOWIE and tried to serve her before other waiting customers (very embarrassing).
And my ex husband was mistaken for Tony Blair (when he was PM).
... and me? ... when I was 18, a man on the seafront in Limassol, Cyprus told me I looked like the "Mona Lisa" and sketched me! I still have the sketch .... and it looks nothing I did .... or anything like the Mona Lisa! ...... and it certainly didn't work as a chat up line! Who wants to look like Mona Lisa?

Gingster Fri 26-Aug-22 21:40:30

My db is the spit of Nigel Havers, speaks like him too. A proper gent.
My friends husband is the double of Michael Middleton (Kates father).

Razzamatazz Fri 26-Aug-22 21:56:04

When I was younger people used to say I looked like Patsy Kensit. I'd forgotten all about it until earlier this year when someone said it. I must see what she looks like now, doubt she's white haired like me!

mauraB Fri 26-Aug-22 22:56:49

As Prince Charles gets older he looks more and more like my Dad.

Marydoll Fri 26-Aug-22 23:00:48

When I was younger, my pupils called me Anne Robinson, for obvious reasons. I did look very much like her.

C4role59 Sat 27-Aug-22 06:36:50

My husband looks like Larry Lamb.

GreyKnitter Sat 27-Aug-22 12:11:47

When we are on holiday people often ask of my husband is related to Jack Nicholson. I can’t see it but it’s happened many times!

grannyro Sun 04-Sept-22 13:48:03

My son was the spitting image of Ross Kemp when they were both younger. He often got stopped by people who thought it was him. I was told I looked like Judy Dench but I think that was mainly down to the very short grey hair.

PamQS Mon 01-May-23 17:36:57

People are always telling me I look like, and sound like, Jo Brand, as if I should be pleased about it! No disrespect to Jo, obviously, but I’m not convinced it’s meant as a compliment!

Galaxy Mon 01-May-23 18:15:02

My dad when younger looked like Bob Monkhouse, he always took it as a personal insult.

aggie Mon 01-May-23 18:24:35

I was supposed to look like Margaret O’ Brian as a child , we are the same age , and are no longer alike !
She was in several children’s films and I was taken to them al , and had to have my hair in plaits like her

Juggernaut Mon 01-May-23 18:36:08

Our DS is the image of Tom Burke (Cormoran Strike) and DDiL (married to above son) is very like Kelly Brook!
DS doesn't have the cleft lip scar that Tom has though, and DS is a lot taller than Tom.
My DM was a dead ringer for a young Bette Davis, and in later life was a double for June Whitfield.
I, sadly, am the image of my DF, and he could have passed as Captain Birdseye. My beard's not quite as lush as his, but I'm getting there! Now, where did I put that epilator?