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Hollywood Doppelgangers That Will Creep You Out

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Some Hollywood faces are so similar that even the actors’ own families get fooled.

The new TheThings Celebrity rundown, “Hollywood Doppelgangers That Will Creep You Out,” lines up the pairings that keep showing up in the same tabloid galleries and Twitter mix-ups — actors and musicians who share nothing biologically but somehow ended up with matching jawlines, hairlines, and expressions. Some of these look-alikes have leaned into the joke themselves; others just keep getting tagged in each other’s photos.

• Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) and Jaime Pressly (“My Name Is Earl”) share nearly identical blonde, blue-eyed features and sharp jawlines despite a 13-year age gap.
• Katy Perry played on the Zooey Deschanel comparison directly, casting Deschanel as her look-alike in the music video for “Not the End of the World.”
• Zoe Saldana’s resemblance to Thandiwe Newton was strong enough that Saldana’s own mother reportedly mistook Newton for her daughter on a movie poster.

The Blonde Pairing Everyone Notices

Robbie’s breakout in “The Wolf of Wall Street” put her face everywhere, and it didn’t take long for people to notice she was basically wearing Jaime Pressly’s bone structure. The wide smiles, the blue eyes, the sharp jaw — it’s the kind of resemblance that holds up in candid paparazzi shots, not just flattering studio portraits. The 13-year gap between them hasn’t stopped the side-by-side comparisons from circulating for years.

Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel’s Running Bit

This is the doppelganger pairing that graduated from internet joke to actual content. Perry cast Deschanel as her stand-in in the “Not the End of the World” video, playing directly into years of fans and photographers confusing the singer for the “New Girl” star — same dark hair, same blunt bangs, same wide blue eyes. Both women have publicly acknowledged the resemblance rather than fight it.

“Apparently, I have a doppelganger, but I think he’s better looking.”

More Faces That Keep Getting Swapped

Zoe Saldana and Thandiwe Newton top the list for sheer awkwardness — Saldana’s mother reportedly looked at a Newton movie poster and thought she was looking at her own daughter. Redheads Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard have joked about the confusion openly on social media for years, and Sarah Hyland (“Modern Family”) and Mila Kunis (“That ’70s Show”) get lumped together for their matching petite frames and dark hair.

The rest of the roster reads like a rogues’ gallery of red-carpet mix-ups: Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley, who rose together in the early 2000s with the same porcelain skin and dark hair; Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer, who share the jaw and the blue eyes that made both of them convincing leading men; Emma Stone and Melinda Clarke, 17 years apart in age but nearly interchangeable in early photos; Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Javier Bardem, who even play the same brand of intense, tough-guy roles; Ian Somerhalder and Chace Crawford; and Ed Sheeran and Rupert Grint, who Sheeran has called his “doppelganger but with blue eyes.” Anyone comparing notes on how differently celebrities can photograph might also check out how much some stars change once the makeup and lighting disappear — it’s the same kind of surface-level trickery that fuels half these doppelganger debates. And for a case where the resemblance runs into the actor’s own career regrets, Kunis has her own history worth revisiting in the film she’s said she wishes she’d skipped.

Will Ferrell and Chad Smith Reconcile

The Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer and the comedian took their resemblance further than anyone else on the list by turning it into a charity bit — a “drum-off” on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that played entirely on the fact that strangers keep mixing them up. Matching haircuts, matching facial hair, matching mannerisms — Ferrell and Smith didn’t just tolerate the joke, they built a segment around it and raised money doing it.