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catherine
11-23-20, 4:23pm
I'm starting this whole thread because the news is reporting that Biden is considering Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary. Janet Yellen is my Scottish MIL's doppelgänger. They could be twins. I've always thought so, and her picture on the front page of the Times reinforced it. Crazy.

Back in the 80s, I worked at Macy's and I can't tell you how many customers told me I looked like Jill Clayburgh, so I guess she is mine.

How about you? So, who is your doppelgänger?


ETA: Pics of my MIL and Janet Yellen:

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iris lilies
11-23-20, 4:46pm
Michelle Pfeiffer.


hahaha......hahahahaha.....hahahaha and if you believe that I have a bridge...
I suppose, Kathy Bates. Years ago when we played this game, my friend kindly said mine was Stockard
Channing.

Some years ago I walked into a restaurant and the hostess did a double take, saying I look like Tony soprano’s shrink played by the actress Lorraine Branco.


I don’t think I look like Bracco but there’s something to it because she reminds me of my mother so there must be some resemblance.
pinkytoe
11-23-20, 4:50pm
All my life, people I meet say I remind them of someone but not sure who. Girl next door...Was also told more than once in my 20s that I looked like Faye Dunaway or Penelope Tree as I have an angular face.
Alan
11-23-20, 4:57pm
As a teenager and into my 20's I was a gangly kid with thick unruly hair. People swore I was the spitting image of Leo Sayer, but personally I never saw it.

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JaneV2.0
11-23-20, 5:08pm
Sue Lyon, Sylvie Vartan, and--for some unknown reason--Bonnie Raitt (had to be the dimples) I look like none of them. I would have made a good spy; I have perfectly regular features, and a forgettable face.
Rogar
11-23-20, 5:39pm
Twenty years or more years ago I had co-workers who said I very much resembled Dick Enberg, the sports announcer. He's a couple of decades my senior and since he got old and then died I think the resemblance has ended. I still look the same (ha ha).
bae
11-23-20, 5:46pm
Brian Blessed in his younger days
herbgeek
11-23-20, 6:02pm
All my life, people I meet say I remind them of someone but not sure who

Me too. Whenever I have travelled, people have said hello as if they know me. I have that every woman look apparently.
rosarugosa
11-23-20, 6:15pm
A lovely woman I worked with closely for several years told me excitedly one day that she had met my absolute double! My doppelganger was a kindergarten teacher she had met at her grandchild's school play, and apparently this woman and I even had similar mannerisms, etc. My co-worker said she had even taken pictures, and she would bring them in once developed (yes, quite a few years back). To make a long, sad story short, my co-worker got sick and died and I never saw the pictures. :(
Yppej
11-23-20, 6:16pm
When I was a teen people used to tell me Marcia in the Brady Bunch.
Tybee
11-23-20, 6:49pm
When I was in college, people said I looked like Vivien Leigh a lot. I dated a guy who thought I looked like Florence Henderson. Those two don't look remotely alike, so I don't know.
iris lilies
11-23-20, 6:54pm
When I was a teen people used to tell me Marcia in the Brady Bunch.

Marcia was a babe!
KayLR
11-23-20, 6:56pm
I don't look like anyone, but my DH looks like Eric Clapton. He really does. Only probably skinnier.
Tybee
11-23-20, 7:02pm
My husband looks like James Taylor.
razz
11-23-20, 8:08pm
I was walking downtown and smiled at a couple comng by. He excitedly grabbed me in his arms and swung me around saying how pleased he was to see me. His wife looked on with amusement, tapped his firmly on the shoulder and said, "It is not her." He stepped back apologizing saying he thought I was a friend that lived in the city but they had not seen for some time. I had a doppelganger, it seems, but never met her.

As child of 5-8 years, I adored a neighbour until he moved away. One of the earliest verbal observations that my mother made was that my DH was the spitting image of that neighbour of long ago. Do people marry a doppelganger of someone long ago?
pinkytoe
11-23-20, 8:17pm
DHs doppel is Nick Stellino the Italian chef - beard and all.
SteveinMN
11-23-20, 10:19pm
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Actor Saul Rubinek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Rubinek). He's got a decade on me, though.

Yeah, me neither.
nswef
11-24-20, 9:26am
We were in Nova Scotia at a small restaurant. A woman stopped by our table to say my husband looked exactly like her dead husband. She couldn't get over it. Had a boyfriend once very long ago who said I looked like Catherine Deneuve...I was flattered.
happystuff
11-24-20, 9:55am
I have a plethora of sisters and was continually called by any/all of their names. :D
rosarugosa
11-24-20, 10:27am
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Actor Saul Rubinek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Rubinek). He's got a decade on me, though.

Yeah, me neither.

I can see it a bit.
frugal-one
11-24-20, 5:24pm
As a young woman I was told I looked like Shelley Long. I didn't see the resemblance.