Actors who've played real people ๐ธ
Olivia Coleman played Queen Elizabeth
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers
Anthony Hopkins - Richard Nixon
Johnny Depp - JM Barrie
Leonardo DiCaprio - Howard Hughes
Anthony Hopkins also played King Richard I in The Lion in Winter. I'll bet there are others.
shareHe played Alfred Hitchcock and Pope Benedict XVI.
shareOoooh. Good ones. One tends to forget some of these roles. I knew there had to be more.
shareHopkins has also played Hitler, Dickens, Danton, Lloyd-George, Yitzhak Rabin, Sir Frederick Treves, Captain Bligh, Donald Campbell. C.S. Lewis, Picasso, John Quincey Adams... probably others too.
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share> Hopkins has also played Hitler
And Hitler met Orson Welles once -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_PUUHLknDI
Leonardo DiCaprio also played J. Edgar Hoover. :)
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