Now Where Have I Seen That

[emmie]

face before. Do you ever do that, see someone you think looks like someone else. I caught about 5 minutes of the new drama The Village, and there was an actor who immediately came to mind of someone else, i knew straight away who, but thought no can't be, but the uncanny likeness had me wondering. And there it is, the actor Alun Armstrong's son in the cast, he looks dead spit of his old man. Another is Emily Watson who looks a lot like a young Sarah Miles, any you come across, someone you know perhaps.

[emmie]

anyone confused you for someone well known, i have, but not saying

[BlueToffee]

In the past I've been asked if I was Ted Dexter, cricketer, and Paul Eddington, actor.

When I look in the mirror though, all I can see is my mother!

[emmie]

i look a bit like my mother, not always a good look x lol

[emmie]

i have a friend and a distant relative who both look like Paul Eddington.
same hair and teeth the sticking out ones...

[Jan1957]

I have a friend who is the spit of Tony Hancock... and he's just as miserable.

[tonyav]

My son is a bit of a Beckham look a likey.

[EvianBaby]

I don't get mistaken for anyone famous but I've got one of those faces that people always think look familiar, even if I've never met them before.

[emmie]

i am often asked if i am this well known actress, the last person who asked me said i was dead spit, i wasn't flattered. He had worked with her and i am most definitely not saying who.
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[FredPuli43]

Some forty years ago, I got a free meal for being mistaken for someone else. The staff in a well-known Indian restaurant in London mistook me for a jockey. One asked where I was from, to which I truthfully replied "Newmarket". There then followed the question was I a jockey. Saying "No" was taken as a modest evasion of admitting that I was, because I could see the staff in a huddle pointing at me and having an animated conversation. They then brought the visitors' book, at which point the woman at the next table leant over and asked quietly " I hope you don't mind me asking, but who are you?" to which I replied "I have no idea !" I was then faced with guessing who to sign as, but, as I had no idea who I was, I simply put an anonymous scrawl as a signature, the delighted manager took the book away, waived the bill, and I left.

To this day, I don't know who I was mistaken for. Being in Newmarket and peripherally connected with racing, I knew a number of jockeys but I didn't, to my mind, look like any who was at all well-known. Plainly the staff couldn't put a name to the face either, which was hardy surprising!

[tenrec]

My son was likened to Patrick Swayze for quite a while.

[horseshoes]

Hi Em, i commented on another thread on here last night about The Village,that I knew straight away that MUST be Alun Armstrong's son. Spitting image isn't he.

[emmie]

i was watching another programme, then turned over in the commercials, and there he was, i thought i was seeing things. I didn't watch the rest so had to look him up on the net, there was no mistaking that face, that rather dare one say large nose, how his dad must have looked 30 years ago.
his father is one of my all time favourite actors. he was in the original cast of Les Miserable in 1985, as Thenadier, an absolute joy to watch...