Poll: Biopic Dream Casting

Results of 417 votes:

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   David Bowie in David Bowie: Five Years (2013)

    

   Tilda Swinton as David Bowie - David was a rock chameleon who reinvented himself many times while becoming one of the best known performers to come out of England.
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   Josephine Baker

    

   Ruth Negga as Josephine Baker - Baker was an entertainer, activist and French resistance agent was became the first person of color to become a world-famous entertainer and was a symbol of the Jazz Ag…
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   Robert F. Kennedy in CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)

    

   Matt Damon as Robert F. Kennedy - Part of the dynastic Kennedy Family, RFK was a US Senator and Attorney General who was assassinated while running for US President in 1968.
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   Louis Armstrong

    

   John Boyega as Louis Armstrong - Armstrong was a jazz trumpet player, composer, singer and occasional actor who is widely considered to have had a profound influence on popular music. He was one of th…
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   Karen Carpenter and The Carpenters

    

   Keira Knightley as Karen Carpenter - Karen was a singer/drummer who became huge music star with her brother Richard; they were known as the Carpenters. One of the first celebrities known for having an…
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   Madonna circa 1985

    

   Lady Gaga as Madonna - Madonna is arguably the most famous performer in the world, reinventing herself many times over and becoming a multi-millionaire in the process.
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   Chris Farley at an event for Excess Baggage (1997)

    

   Jonah Hill as Chris Farley - Chris was a comedy dynamo who made a splash on Saturday Night Live and in movies and then died of an overdose at age 33.
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   Civil War Journal (1993)

    

   Laurence Fishburne as Frederick Douglass - Douglass was an author, politician and influential leader of the abolitionist movement.
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   John Belushi and Judith Belushi-Pisano

    

   Seth Rogen as John Belushi - John was a comedy dynamo who made a splash on Saturday Night Live and in movies and then died of an overdose at age 33.
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    Audrey Hepburn at an event for The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992)

     

    Natalie Portman as Audrey Hepburn - Hepburn was an actor and dancer who emerged from the ashes of WWII to become an international star, before retiring to dedicate herself with humanitarian work as a …
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    Ella Fitzgerald in Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993)

     

    Viola Davis as Ella Fitzgerald - Fitzgerald was a jazz singer, known as the "First Lady of Song", who enjoyed a four-decade career while working with nearly every important figure of the jaz…
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    Cass Elliot

     

    Melissa McCarthy as Mama Cass Elliot - Cass was a powerful singer in the '60s whose addictions led to her death at age 32.
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    Lemmy in Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)

     

    Billy Crudup as Lemmy - Lemmy started as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and founded and led the heavy metal band Motörhead for over 30 years. He was known for his gravely voice and hard-living lifestyle.
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    Elton John in To Russia... With Elton (1979)

     

    Justin Timberlake as Elton John - John is a flamboyant performer who has overcome addiction and hidden homosexuality to achieve million-dollar success world-wide.
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    Oprah Winfrey in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

     

    Jennifer Hudson as Oprah Winfrey - Oprah rose from an impoverished childhood to become a nationally-recognized broadcaster and Oscar-nominated actor who is now a media mogul and philanthropist worth $…
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    Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk (1959)

     

    Cheyenne Jackson as Rock Hudson - Hudson was a handsome leading man in Hollywood who was actually a closeted homosexual who died of AIDS.
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    Vivienne Westwood in Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)

     

    Tilda Swinton as Vivienne Westwood - Westwood is a British clothing designer best known for bringing punk and new wave fashion into the mainstream.
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    Larry Hagman in Dallas (1978)

     

    Rob Lowe as Larry Hagman - Larry Hagman was an actor best known for astronaut Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie and JR Ewing on Dallas.
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    Cole Porter and Ethel Merman

     

    Jim Parsons and Kristen Schaal as Cole Porter and his wife Linda Lee Thomas - Porter was a legendary, Tony-winning songwriter who endured a catastrophic injury while riding a horse and lived his entir…
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    Barbara Jordan

     

    Viola Davis as Barbara Jordan - Jordan was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who was the first Southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives. A lesbian closeted to the…