Actors who Played Real People

Frank Serpico in Serpico (1973)

Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997)

Lowell Bergman in The Insider (1999)

Danny Collins (Steve Tilston) in Danny Collins (2015)

Jimmy Hoffa in The Irishman (2018)

C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands (1993)

Richard M. Nixon in Nixon (1995)

Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso (1996)

Burt Munro in The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012)

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Winston Churchill in Churchill (2017)

Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998)

Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004)

Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Jude Quinn (Bob Dylan) in I'm Not There (2007)

Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Gen. Andrew Jackson (black uniform, center) in The Buccaneer (1958)

Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Christy Brown in My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Gerry Conlon in In the Name of the Father (1993)

Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln (2012)

Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff (1983)

Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire! (1989)

Jimmy Morris in The Rookie (2002)

Steve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987)

Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992)

Rubin Carter in The Hurricane (1999)

Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007)

John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983)

Gene Kranz in Apollo 13 (1995)

Jackson Pollock in Pollock (2000)

Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy (1986)

Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991)

Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994)

Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George (1994)

Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006)

Alma Reville in Hitchcock (2012)

Hedda Hopper in Trumbo (2015)

Maria Altmann in Woman in Gold (2015)

Eugene O'Neill in Reds (1981)

Mark (Carl Bernstein) in Heartburn (1986)

James R. 'Jimmy' Hoffa in Hoffa (1992)

Giuseppe "Joey" LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980)

David Ferrie in JFK (1991)

Russell Bufalino in The Irishman (2018)

Ed Wood in Ed Wood (1994)

James Matthew Barrie in Finding Neverland (2004)

John Dillinger in Public Enemies (2009)

James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass (2015)

Jim Garrison in JFK (1991)

Wyatt Earp in Wyatt Eart (1994)

Kenny O'Donnell in Thirteen Days (2000)

Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995)

Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004)

J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar (2011)

Jordan Belfort in The Woolf of Wall Street (2013)

Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993)

Rob Roy in Rob Roy (1995)

Michael Collins in Michael Collins (1996)

Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey (2004)

Karen Silkwood in Silkwood (1983)

Karen Blixen in Out of Africa (1985)

Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart (1999)

Susan Orlean in Adaptation (2002)

Julia Childs in Julie & Julia (2009)

Margaret Thatcher in Iron Lady (2011)

Robbie Ross in Wilde (1997)

Tony Blair in The Queen (2006)

David Frost in Frost/Nixon (2008)

Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002)

Diane Arbus in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco (2014)

Gertrude Bell in Queen of the Desert (2015)

Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Emile Zola in the Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Benito Juárez in Juarez (1939)

Joseph Elsner (glasses-center) in A Song to Remember (1945)

Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980)

Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987)

Vincent Lamarca in City by the Sea (2002)

Frank 'The Irishmank Sheeran in The Irishman (2018)

Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999)

John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Jim Braddock in Cinderella Man (2005)

Richie Roberts in The American Gangster (2007)

Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 (1995)

Charlie Wilson in Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Captain Richard Phillips in Captain Phillips (2013)

James B. Donovan in Bridge of Spies (2015)

Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger in Sully (2016)