10 Actors Who Are (Almost) Identical To The Real-Life Figures They Played

2) Vincent D’Onofrio As Orson Welles (Ed Wood)

Though Christian McKay captured Welles’ all-round spirit and character better than anybody else has so far managed in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, no one has come closer to looking like Orson than Vincent D’Onofrio.

He only makes a brief cameo in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, as a great director offers advice to a terrible one, but his few minutes remain memorable for the “holy s**t it looks just like him”-ness of it all.

It’s the single arched eyebrow, the slick side-combed hair, the chubby-cheeked baby-facedness of it all – D’Onofrio just looks inescapably like one of history’s greatest filmmakers.

You can’t quite say D’Onofrio was ‘born to play’ Welles, seeing as how they ended up having to dub over his higher-pitched voice with that of an impressionist’s to make it work, but the look is right on the money.