More memorable performances by actors
playing people who actually lived:
Sean Penn as Harvey Milk
in "Milk"
Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking
in "The Theory of Everything"
in "The Theory of Everything"
Donald Sutherland as Paul Gauguin
in "Wolf At the Door"
in "Wolf At the Door"
Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway
in "Midnight In Paris"
in "Midnight In Paris"
Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck
in "Shadow of the Vampire"
in "Shadow of the Vampire"
Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf
in "La Vie en Rose"
in "La Vie en Rose"
Jeff Daniels as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
in "Gettysburg"
in "Gettysburg"
Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page
in "The Notorious Bettie Page"
in "The Notorious Bettie Page"
James Franco as Allen Ginsberg
in "Howl"
in "Howl"
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow
in "Good Night, and Good Luck"
in "Good Night, and Good Luck"