Hollywood casting can do a lot with the right wigs, makeup, and a convincing family backstory. But sometimes, two celebrities already have enough similar features that you can easily imagine them playing siblings, cousins, or even parent and child on screen. These pairings aren’t related, but they’d certainly make believable members of the same fictional family.
Margot Robbie & Jaime Pressly
Put Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly in the same family photo and nobody would think twice. Their similar blonde looks, blue eyes, and facial features make them an especially convincing sister pairing.
Elizabeth Olsen & Lily Rabe
Elizabeth Olsen and Lily Rabe have the kind of resemblance that could make a casting director do a double take. The similar eyes, coloring, and face shape would make them very believable sisters.
Emma Stone & Bryce Dallas Howard
Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard have both played plenty of memorable characters, but they could easily add fictional sisters to their résumés. Their similar features and red hair make the family resemblance particularly convincing.
Amy Adams & Isla Fisher
Amy Adams and Isla Fisher have been compared for years thanks to their similar coloring and facial features. Cast them as sisters and audiences would probably accept the family tree without much investigation.
Leighton Meester & Minka Kelly
Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly have similar dark hair, eyes, and facial features that make them surprisingly convincing as sisters. They could probably fool an entire fictional family reunion.
Nina Dobrev & Victoria Justice
Nina Dobrev and Victoria Justice have enough similar features to make the same-family theory surprisingly believable. Their matching dark hair and expressive eyes would make for convincing sisters.
Jenna Coleman & Phoebe Tonkin
Jenna Coleman and Phoebe Tonkin could easily pass as sisters in a glossy TV drama. Their similar coloring, eyes, and delicate facial features make the resemblance hard to miss.
Sarah Paulson & Laura Dern
Sarah Paulson and Laura Dern have a resemblance that becomes especially noticeable when they share similar hairstyles. They could easily play sisters with very different personalities but suspiciously similar faces.
Rachel McAdams & Elizabeth Banks
Rachel McAdams and Elizabeth Banks both have bright smiles and similar facial structures. Put them in the same fictional family and the casting would make perfect sense.
Jennifer Connelly & Demi Moore
Jennifer Connelly and Demi Moore have the kind of striking features that could work beautifully in a sister storyline. Give them the same surname, and viewers might never question it.
Meryl Streep & Glenn Close
Meryl Streep and Glenn Close may have completely different screen personas, but their facial features can look remarkably similar. They could easily play sophisticated sisters with decades of complicated family history.
Michelle Pfeiffer & Sharon Stone
Michelle Pfeiffer and Sharon Stone have both been Hollywood icons for decades, and their similar features make them believable as sisters. They could walk into the same fictional family reunion looking completely at home.
Naomi Watts & Nicole Kidman
Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman have both spent years in Hollywood, but their similar coloring and facial features could also make them convincing relatives. They would make an effortlessly believable pair of sisters.
Jude Law & Rufus Sewell
Jude Law and Rufus Sewell share similar eyes, coloring, and facial structure. They could easily play brothers from a very British fictional family.
Theo James & Henry Golding
Theo James and Henry Golding have the sort of resemblance that becomes obvious when they have similar hairstyles and facial hair. As brothers, they would require very little suspension of disbelief.
Matt Bomer & Bradley Cooper
Matt Bomer and Bradley Cooper both have blue eyes, dark hair, and similarly shaped features. Cast them as brothers and the fictional family resemblance would practically write itself.
Channing Tatum & Garrett Hedlund
Channing Tatum and Garrett Hedlund have similar strong jawlines, coloring, and all-American leading-man looks. They could easily play brothers who inherited the same family genes.
Josh Hartnett & Ben Affleck
Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck could convincingly play brothers in a movie about a family with a complicated history. Their similar dark features and face shapes make the pairing particularly believable.
James Marsden & Patrick Dempsey
James Marsden and Patrick Dempsey have enough similar features to make them convincing brothers. They even share the polished leading-man look that could make the family resemblance feel intentional.
Penn Badgley & Sebastian Stan
Penn Badgley and Sebastian Stan have similar dark hair, eyes, and facial structures. They could easily play brothers whose fictional family photo would have everyone doing a double take.
Alexandra Daddario & Lily Collins
Alexandra Daddario and Lily Collins have striking eyes and similar facial features that make them surprisingly convincing relatives. As sisters, they would look completely believable standing side by side.
Anne Hathaway & Emmy Rossum
Anne Hathaway and Emmy Rossum share similar dark features, smiles, and face shapes. They could easily play sisters whose family resemblance becomes increasingly obvious throughout a movie.
