Who Played that Historical Person?

Can you name actors and actresses who portrayed historical persons in film?

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Movie / TV Series	Historical Person	Actor / Actress
1492: Conquest of Paradise	Christopher Columbus	Gerard Depardieu
A Dangerous Method	Sigmund Freud	Viggo Mortensen
Alexander	Alexander the Great	Colin Farrell
Ali	Muhammad Ali	Will Smith
All is by My Side	Jimi Hendrix	Andre Benjamin
Amadeus	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Tom Hulce
Amelia	Amelia Earhart	Hilary Swank
Apollo 13	Jim Lovell	Tom Hanks
At Eternity's Gate	Vincent Van Gogh	Willem Defoe
Battle of the Sexes	Billie Jean King	Emma Stone
Black Mass	Whitey Bulger	Johnny Depp
Bohemian Rhapsody	Freddie Mercury	Rami Malek
Borg vs McEnroe	John McEnroe	Shia LaBeouf
Capote	Truman Capote	Philip Seymour Hoffman
Chaplin	Charlie Chaplin	Robert Downey Jr.
Che	Che Guevara	Benicio Del Toro
Coco	Coco Before Chanel	Audrey Tautou
Darkest Hour	Winston Churchill	Gary Oldman
Downfall	Adolf Hitler	Bruno Ganz
Evita	Eva Peron	Madonna
Factory Girl	Andy Warhol	Guy Pearce
First Man	Neil Armstrong	Ryan Gosling
Frida	Frida Cahlo	Salma Hayek
Frost/Nixon	Richard Nixon	Frank Langella
Gandhi	Mahamta Gandhi	Ben Kingsley
Genius (TV)	Pablo Picasso	Antonio Banderas
Genius (TV)	Albert Einstein	Geoffrey Rush
Get On Up	James Brown	Chadwick Boseman
Gettysburg	Robert E. Lee	Martin Sheen
Gia	Gua Carangi	Angelina Jolie
Great Balls of Fire!	Jerry Lee Lewis	Dennis Quaid
Hitchcock	Alfred Hitchcock	Anthony Hopkins
I, Tonya	Toyna Harding	Margot Robbie
Invictus	Francois Pienaar	Matt Damon
Invictus	Nelson Mandela	Morgan Freeman
J. Edgar	J. Edgar Hoover	Leonardo DiCaprio
Jackie	Jackie Kennedy	Natalie Portman
James Dean	James Dean	James Franco
Jobs	Steve Jobs	Ashton Kutcher
John Adams	John Adams	Paul Giamatti
Judy	Judy Garland	Renee Zellweger
La Vie en rose	Edith Piaf	Marion Cotillard
Lawrence of Arabia	T. E. Lawrence	Peter O'Toole
Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	Daniel Day-Lewis
Liz & Dick	Elizabeth Taylor	Lindsay Lohan
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story	Elizabeth Taylor	Sherilyn Fenn
Lust for Life	Vincent Van Gogh	Kirk Douglas
Malcolm X	Malcolm X	Denzel Washington
Man on the Moon	Andy Kaufman	Jim Carrey
Mary Queen of Scots	Mary I of Scotland	Saoirse Ronan
Midnight in Paris	Salvador Dali	Adien Brody
Milk	Harvey Milk	Sean Penn
Moneyball	Billy Bean	Brad Pitt
Monster	Aileen Wuornos	Charlize Theron
My Week With Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	Michelle Williams
Narcos (TV)	Pablo Escobar	Wagner Moura
Narcos: Mexico (TV)	Angel Felix Gallardo	Diego Luna
Ned Kelly	Ned Kelly	Heath Ledger
Pollock	Jackson Pollock	Ed Harris
Ray	Ray Charles	Jamie Foxx
Rocketman	Elton John	Taron Egerton
Rush	James Hunt	Chris Hemsworth
Rush	Niki Lauda	Daniel Brühl
Schindler's List	Oskar Schindler	Liam Neeson
Selena	Selena Quintanilla	Jennifer Lopez
Seprico	Frank Serpico	Al Pacino
Shakespeare in Love	William Shakespeare	Joseph Fiennes
Shakespeare in Love	Queen Elizabeth I	Judy Dench
The Aviator	Katharine Hepburn	Cate Blanchett
The Babe	Babe Ruth	John Goodman
The Crown (TV)	Queen Elizabeth II	Claire Foy / Olivia Colman / Imelda Staunton
The Doors	Jim Morrison	Val Kilmer
The Hours	Virginia Woolf	Nicole Kidman
The Invisible Woman	Charles Dickens	Ralph Fiennes
The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher	Meryl Streep
The King's Speech	King George VI	Colin Firth
The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	Forest Whitaker
The Notorious Bettie Page	Bettie Page	Gretchen Mol
The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II	Helen Mirren
The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	John Cusack
The Social Network	Mark Zuckerberg	Jesse Eisenberg
The Theory Of Everything	Stephen Hawking	Eddie Redmayne
The Two Popes	Pope Francis	Jonathan Pryce
The Untouchables	Al Capone	Robert De Niro
Truman	Harry S. Truman	Gary Sinise
Vice	George W. Bush	Sam Rockwell
Walk the Line	Johnny Cash	Joaquin Phoenix
Walk the Line	June Carter Cash	Reese Witherspoon
What's Love Got to Do with It	Tina Turner	Angela Bassett
Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Stephen Fry

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