There’s a theory that everyone on Earth has a doppelganger — someone who looks so identical to them that even their loved ones would get confused. This phenomenon is even more fascinating when celebrities get in the mix because famous faces are usually unique, right? As many tabloids have claimed, celebrities are just like us! Only a lot of the time, their doppelgangers are also in the public eye. So now it’s time to look at the celebrities that often get confused for one another because they look so much alike, as well as a couple of other reasons that aren’t physical at all.
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Two very funny redheads that aren’t Lucille Ball? Yeah, those two are going to get compared forever. Now, someone, please cast them as sisters already!
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They both pull off that 5 o’clock shadow like no other with intense stares.
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Minka Kelly has starred in shows like Friday Night Lights and The Roommate, but in the 2000s, when Gossip Girl was all the rage, she was often confused with one of its stars, Leighton Meester.
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Perhaps one day, when all the superhero stuff isn’t keeping him too busy, Chris Pratt can join The Conjuring universe alongside his look-alike, Patrick Wilson.
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Squinting one's eyes while looking at Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard will lead to confusion.
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Omar Epps should’ve been in a movie called Love & Football instead of Love & Basketball, considering how much he resembles the Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach, Mike Tomlin.
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Mila Kunis and Sarah Hyland
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It’s a shame Modern Family never thought to bring Mila Kunis in for a random guest spot, considering the internet recognized pretty early on in the show that one of their own, Sarah Hyland, looked pretty much just like the former That ‘70s Show star.
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If someone said Zach Braff and Dax Shepard were related, not many would question them.
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Barbie knew what it was doing when they cast Margot Robbie and the world-famous doll, but casting took things a step further by making one of the many Barbies Emma Mackey from Netflix’s Sex Education . They could’ve dove even deeper into it by placing Jaime Pressly and Samara Weaving in the movie since all four look like variations of the same woman.
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Jeff Bridges and Kurt Russell are both iconic actors of a particular era who everyone defines as amazingly cool, so while they might not look as similar as some, people get them mixed up based on the era they spawned from.
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Gabrielle Union even had to laugh on X (formerly Twitter) when it was brought to her attention that attention-seeking political commentator Candace Owens looked like her.
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Place these men side by side, and it’s easy to know which was on American Horror Story’s premiere season and which was “fancy man” on New Girl, but for some reason, their names have everyone confused about which is which. Dylan was in the FX series, by the way.
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Two talented actresses who each appeared in two of the biggest franchises in the 2000s would leave some baffled.
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No one casting Rob Lowe and Ian Somerhalder from The Vampire Diaries in a father/son movie or TV show is a missed opportunity.
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McKenna Grace & Kiernan Shipka
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McKenna Grace took on the new Ghostbusters, while Kiernan Shipka helped deliver Sabrina the Teenage Witch to a new generation via Netflix. Despite there being several years between them, people still can’t tell them apart at times.
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This isn’t one of those instances where The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White was born the day Gene Wilder passed, but it is very eerie how much they look like one another.
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Katy Perry’s big doe eyes have led people to say she looks like Zooey Deschanel, but doesn’t she look more like Orange is the New Black’s Taylor Schilling?
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Jack Quaid and Joshua Jackson
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The Boys’ Jack Quaid is well aware that he looks like former teen heartthrob and current Hollywood hottie Joshua Jackson. He also knows he looks like a young Rainn Wilson, a.k.a. Dwight from The Office.
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Reneé Rapp and Busy Phillips
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So, casting Busy Phillips as Reneé Rapp’s mother in the theatrical musical remake of Mean Girls was a no-brainer.
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The curly hair and being every teen girl's dream in the 2000s? It’s no wonder Adam Brody and Penn Badgley aren’t one and the same in peoples’ minds.
Kendra Beltran went to college with no game plan and found herself falling back on her love of writing soon after graduating all the way back in 2009. Since then, she's written for MTV Geek, Cosplay Central, Collider, Apartment Therapy, and many other sites that allowed her to showcase her love of all things pop culture. When she isn't writing, Kendra is either hosting her show, Crushgasm, baking all the cookies, or spoiling her fur baby, Mason.