It seems I am a man of many faces. If you look at pictures of me growing up you’d not even recognise that it’s the same person. I seem to have a continuously evolving face. Now, this is not necessarily a bad thing as it has continued to today. You can look at photos of me from last year and I seem to have entirely different bone structure and ears. This comes in very handy if, let’s say, you were barred from a hip cocktail bar in Amsterdam and wanted to return a few months later - nobody would recognise you. Just saying.
Anyway, this kaleidoscopic face of mine also means I am continuously being told that I remind my friends of various famous men. In the last couple of months only, I have been likened to;
Hugh Grant – This I find nothing short of traumatic as I really can’t stand him
Filemon Wesselink – A presenter on Dutch TV. Apparently this is on account of my ample hearing devices.
Frodo, The Hobbit – This plagued me around the time of the films and has never really gone away. I still get people asking me to show them my hairy feet and wanting to know if I’ve had my second lunch already.
Mr Tumnus – This is the latest and most irritating as those who call me it get a real kick out of how I react. In fact it has annoyed me so much that I’m off to get my hair cut today in a frantic attempt to cut all ties with this Narnian.
Now I know that everyone gets compared to some famous person at one point or another but is it too much to expect them to at least be human? I’m beginning to get a complex that more and more of mine are turning out to be hairy fictional creatures with big ears. It’s enough to make me want to start wearing a disguise.
So, make me feel better, who have you been told you look like?
Someone tried to chat me up in my student days by telling me I looked like Bjork. Now, I like Bjork – she’s a mad pop pixie – but I don’t look like her apart from the fact that I’m short with dark hair. The chat-up line didn’t work.
Another suggestion was that I looked like Sue Perkins from comedy duo Mel and Sue – again, I think it was the hair. I wasn’t flattered in the slightest.
hehe That’s brilliant – Bjork’s cute out the door so at least it’s not too insulting
There was this one guy in college who used to follow me around and tell me I looked like Alyson Hannigan (Willow from Buffy). I do have red hair and a big mouth, but the resemblance stops there! I think he may have also thought I was a lesbian witch, hence the stalker-like behaviour.
Celebrity look a like site My Heritage told me once I looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DaVito…
Guess my humour after that gem of a find. I’m first to admit that I’m no oil painting, but come on! No?
catherine – ohhh lovely Willow – of course you are much hotter, even if you’re not a lesbian witch which would have been too good to be true
Ten years ago, a taxi driver in Dublin genuinely mistook me for Nicole Kidman. I’d forgotten all about that until I read your post this morning. It has just made my day all over again.
Uh, some people have compared me to Paris Hilton. Thank God I don’t have blonde hair any more!!
People sometimes tell me I look like Ronan Keating. Hence my comedy hair-bush and beard.
And the saving for the face transplant.
Ha, Conor, you’re too kind, I totally owe you a pint for that
oh god what an adorable grinning picture of the young you.
years ago i had a friend who used to compulsively cast “the newsroom movie”; that is, who would play us if someone decided to waste a whole ton of money by making a movie about the duluth news-tribune, circa 1988?
another friend suggested that i would be played by Sandy Dennis.
i have still not forgiven her, even though many other friends rushed to my defense and threw out a whole bunch of other names. i can’t remember any of the other suggested actresses; sandy dennis will haunt me forever.
MY Mother
MY Mother
MY Mother
…and one bloke told me years ago I looked like Deborah Kerr! I think he needed glasses.
It could be a lot worse.
Every time a Harry Potter film comes out, I have a month or so of people pointing and shouting ‘Harry Potter’ at me.
Possibly I should just give in and get contacts.
The guy in my local newsagent insists on calling me Tom: after Tom Berenger. Yes yes I know. But this is about 5 years after an ex- of a friend of mine also told me I looked like him.
It must be true then.
Thats hilarious Conortje…you still look the same…thats a compliment.
Mr Tumnuss would also be a compliment but without the leggy buts and ears obv..!
sorry that should have read leggy bits and ears.
In the early 90’s I was followed around a mall by someone who eventually plucked up the courage to ask for my autograph! He thought I was Kelly McGillis from Top Gun (snort lol), the only thing like her was probably the curly blonde hair! But my boyfriend was so impressed he ended up marrying me!
Then a year ago a woman in a queue told my children to watch Top Gun coz their mother looked like the actress…mmmm that made me think. I can definitely see the likeness with Frodo, but he is definitely worth a second look, except when his ahir is all curly and long! have i congratulated you on your nomination yet, I don’t think so…well done!!!!
You get hairy fictional creatures too? I get “Wicket the Ewok” and “Chewbacca the Wookie” comparisons… Werewolves, Sea Otters, Cousin It, Bart the Bear, Badger, the Yowie, the Yeti, Australopithecus… the closest I ever got to a celebrity comparison was “you’ve got a really flat stomach, like Alexander Siddig.” I took it as a great compliment, even though there are many other actors with flat stomachs, because Alexander Siddig is, as far as I know, a member of the human species.
sinéad o connor and sideshow bob. go figure.
(and am now so jealous of Red that i’ve turned green. so probably Shrek…)
A goat looking at thunder.
Alan – both of them? That’s mad
red – that is indeed quite a compliment. You lucky thing
lenfercest – you weren’t walking around witha dog as an accessory were you
gimme – you have my full condolences
catherine – sounds great
laurie – true, we always remember the worst ones for much longer hehe
grannymar – hehehe brilliant, that really made me laugh!
robert – interesting
The prime minister here really looks like Harry Potter too so that’s another one you look like perhaps.
73man – definitely, if more than one says it then it has to be true
isitjustme – hmm I think it would be very hard to try and find it complimentary – even with the leggy bits and ears
ndr04 – that’s mad – have your children watched it yet?
martin – I know the feeling – if it’s at least a comparison to a human I’m over the moon
rosie – Sinead is gorgeous – therefore you are too! QED
primal – !?!?!? please tell me this is true, I love it
you weren’t walking around witha dog as an accessory were you
No!! Never!!!! *storms off, outraged*
I have thought long and hard about sharing this one with you but since you are such a sensitive kind soul I reckon you will refrain from taking the piss.
Eileen Grimshaw from Corrie
The sad fact is that I can see it, it’s 50% looks and 50% attitude.
Conor, that made me laugh out loud, I think the Mr Tumnus really meant you look a bit like James McEvoy and he’s a fine thing, I always thought you look very nice just as you,
Also, just to let you know that your fine blog is on the Best Personal Blog longlist in the Irish Blog Awards, mine is too which was nice to read,
well done, I was very pleased to see Enda nominated and likewise for you,
David.
I agree with David. James McEvoy is a fine specimen of a man, and I’d be delighted to be compared to him – pointy ears and hoof toes or not!
But James McAvoy is gorgeous!…maybe its just me?
Well, yeah, sort of – I tend to stare off into the distance now and again.
I also used to get the Sinead O’Connor one, thanks to multiple bouts of head-shaving in my teens and 20s. I used to get asked for autographs as I shaved my head in school and bloody Nothing Compares to You came out about two weeks later.
Also used to get Winona Ryder, who I look nothing like. Think it’s the big eyes thing.
Still, it’s better than being told you look like Pat Butcher from Eastenders, isn’t it?
Congrats on making the longlist for Bet Personal Blog, Conor! You may have to book yet another visit.
I’ve been likened to ‘You know yer wan from Neighbours?’ (Huh?) and my dad.
Being told I look like my dad feels very very odd. I mean, how can they tell what he looks like under all that hair?! If he’s across between Gerry Adams and Mr. Twit, what the hell does that make me?!?
You’re very lucky to be likened to so many good lookers! You must be a hottie
I’m forever being told I look like Stephen Fry. And as soon as people see the look of horror on my most un-Fry like face, they add that they think this is the highest compliment they can pay me…
I remain unconvinced. Still, it beats the perennial: “Oh my, don’t you look just like your father!” comments.
For the record, I’m sure that Hugh, Frodo and Mr Tumnus are often told how much they look like you!
me..i just look like me
but on the upside, my daughter looks just like me and she always gets mistaken for halie berry..sooooooooo…maybe, just maybe. . .
somehow i think you don’t do blog awards, but i’ve bestowed one upon you anyway. stop by the dogblog to pick it up.
lenfercest – just checking – you can never be too sure of these things
ellie- that’s the worst part indeed – when you can kind of see where they’re coming from …. I do often like to have a second lunch
david – thanks
It’s obviously a good list!
alan – that’s all very easy to say from where you’re sitting Arnold
isitjustme – I fear it is hehe
primal – I’m going to start doing that too – it sounds ridiculously mysterious and exciting
sinead – I hope you signed them and just pretended you were her
enda – I should just ask them if they wouldn’t mind bringing it all forward a week hehe
k8 – I’ve also been likened to each member of my family at least a couple of times – and that’s both parents, all my millions of sisters and my brother. Fortunately it never stretched to the dog.
jovica – I’m sure they would – if they were only human and bleedin’ existed!
savannah – well that’s that then – you’re offically gorgeous. I always had a hunch.
laurie – I’m honoured, thanks
alan – that’s all very easy to say from where you’re sitting Arnold
Yeah, we’re done. Never speak to me again.
When I had short hair at least three different people said I looked like Dolores O’Riordan. Though maybe they were just comparing me to the only Irish woman they could think of…
Years ago this waiter became infatuated with me and stalked me at work. He said I looked like Sean Young. She’s crazy and in rehab now, so yeah, thanks.
Jenny Agata in the railway children. Luckily not many people my age know who she is but highly insulting I thought. Was told at an audition as well, and he said it in a real sniffy way.
Yet another complex. Brilliant.
Brando. Always fucking Brando. Have you seen what he turned into?
John Higgins and once Ray Liotta. Mad.
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I’ve been told that I resemble:
Nicole Kidman (especially in To Die For)
Rachel Taylor (in Transformers)
and
Heather Locklear.
I acknowledge that this is a rather nice group to be compared with.