Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray. (Photo: Archive)
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo in Frida. (Photo: Archive)
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. (Photo: Archive)
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Jane and Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. (Photo: Archive)
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X. (Photo: Archive)
Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall. (Photo: Archive)
Adrien Brody As Salvador Dali in Midnight In Paris. (Photo: Archive)
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin. (Photo: Archive)
Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. (Photo: Archive)
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. (Photo: Archive)
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster. (Photo: Archive)
Helen Mirren as HM Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen. (Photo: Archive)
Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is By My Side. (Photo: Archive)
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote. (Photo: Archive)
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. (Photo: Archive)
Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla in Selena. (Photo: Archive)
Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Gandhi. (Photo: Archive)
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy. (Photo: Archive)
John Hurt as Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man. (Photo: Archive)
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors. (Photo: Archive)
Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali. (Photo: Archive)
James Franco as James Dean in James Dean. (Photo: Archive)
Johnny Depp as Edward D. Wood Jr. in Ed Wood. (Photo: Archive)
Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries. (Photo: Archive)
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk. (Photo: Archive)
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. (Photo: Archive)
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There. (Photo: Archive)
Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra. (Photo: Archive)
Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon. (Photo: Archive)
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock. (Photo: Archive)
Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in Get on Up. (Photo: Archive)
Jared Leto As Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27. (Photo: Archive)
Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page. (Photo: Archive)
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia. (Photo: Archive)
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma. (Photo: Archive)
The actors on this list did a frighteningly good job at transforming into the historical figures they played onscreen. Jamie Foxx, Daniel Day-Lewis and Denzel Washington could have all fooled us into believing we were watching documentaries!
