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Actors pretend to be other people. It's what actors do. Sometimes they fail. Other times they succeed. And sometimes they embody their characters so completely that you forget you're watching a movie. Take some of the best biopics for example. Did you notice Helen Mirren while watching The Queen, or was it Elizabeth II you saw? What about Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, or Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln? Even now it's difficult to think of Ben Kingsley or Mahatma Gandhi without associating one with the other because like all of the above, the actor didn't just play a role - they became that role. In homage to these amazing performances, Bored Panda has compiled a list of the most accurate real-life portrayals to ever hit the silver screen. Take a look at the pictures below and vote for the most convincing! Here are 20 actors alongside the historic people that they were portraying. 1. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen Hawking & wife Jane Wilde in Theory of Everything (2014) 2. Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004) 3. Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin (1992) 4. Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi (1982) 5. Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991) 6. Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012) 7. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There (2007) Click ‘NEXT PAGE’ for more comparisons and be sure to ‘SHARE’ on Facebook and with your friends! 8. Меryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) 9. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) 10. Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in Selena (1997) 11. Hellen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen 12. Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994) 13. Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall (2004) 14. Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida (2002) 15. Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in Jobs (2013) 16. Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Lust For Life (1956) 17. Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (2007) 18. Adrien Brody as Salvador Dali in Midnight in Paris (2011) 19. Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012) 20. André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013) Source:boredpanda (SOURCE: BoredPanda) RELATED: Old Hollywood’s Dirty Secrets Forgotten Hollywood Scandals Actors Who Shined As JFK What do you think about these actors and the historic people they portrayed? Let us know in the comments below and don’t forget to SHARE this post with your Facebook friends.