Over the years we’ve seen many actors and actresses play historical figures, musicians, even some of their fellow thespians in a plethora of films. We’ve amassed a short list of some of the best performances where it became hard to tell the difference between the actor and the real person.
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Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin
Robert De Niro as boxer Jake Lamotta
Denzel Washington as revolutionary civil rights leader Malcolm X
Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin
Will Smith as Muhammad Ali
Jennifer Lopez as famous Mexican singer Selena Perez
Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela
Ed Harris as Senator John McCain
Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Ghandi
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge
