The biographical film is just one of those things... You either get it breathtakingly right or unforgivably wrong.
THREAD : Actors who took on the biopic.
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Lady // 2011
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner
What's love got to do with it // 1993
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X
Malcolm X // 1992
Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln // 2012
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury
Bohemian Rhapsody // 2018
Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding
I, Tonya // 2017
Will Smith as Muhammad Ali
Ali // 2001
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
Ray // 2004
Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
Walk the line // 2005
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo
Frida // 2002
Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland
Judy // 2019
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos
Monster // 2003
Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman
Harriet // 2019
Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson
Hidden Figures // 2016
Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth // 1998
Christian Bale as Dick Cheney
Vice // 2018
Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham
The Post // 2017
Russell Crowe as John Nash
A beautiful mind // 2001
Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking
The Theory of Everything //2014
Chadwick Boseman as James Brown.
Get on up // 2014
Taron Egerton as Elton John
Rocketman // 2019
Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof
Dallas Buyers Club // 2013
Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill
Darkest Hour // 2017
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.
Selma // 2014
Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar // 2011
Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge // 1999
Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla
Selena // 1997
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