-
Meryl Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst in SuffragetteFocus; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
-
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in Steve JobsUniversal; Bob Riha Jr—Getty Images
-
Ellen Page plays Stacie Andree in FreeheldLionsgate; Tom Spader—AP
-
Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Philippe Petit in The WalkSony Pictures; Dave Pickoff—AP
-
Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black MassWarner Brothers; AP
-
André Benjamin plays Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My SidePatrick Redmond—XLrator Media; Photoshot/Getty Images
-
Adrien Brody plays Harry Houdini in Houdini.History Channel; Hulton Archive/Getty Images
-
Chadwick Boseman plays James Brown in Get On Up.Universal Pictures; Gilles Petard—Redferns/Getty Images
-
Ashton Kutcher plays Steven Jobs in Jobs.Open Road Films; Tom Munnecke/Getty Images
-
Cate Blanchett plays Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.Weinstein Co.; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
-
James Franco plays James Dean in James Dean.Getty Images (2)
-
Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.Weinstein Co.; Hulton Archive/Getty Images
-
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate.Disney; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
-
Anthony Hopkins plays Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock.Fox Searchlight; NBC/Getty Images
-
Salma Hayek plays Frida Kahlo in Frida.Miramax; Popperfoto/Getty Images
-
Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy.MGM; Richard E. Aaron—Redferns/Getty Images
-
Denzel Washington plays Malcolm X in Malcolm X.Warner Bros.; Truman Moore—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
-
Leonardo DiCaprio plays J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar.Warner Bros.; Bachrach/Getty Images
-
Ben Kingsley plays Gandhi in Gandhi.Columbia; Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
-
Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn.Weinstein Co.; NBC/Getty Images
-
Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.20th Century Fox; David Gahr/Getty Images
-
Daniel Day-Lewis plays President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln.20th Century Fox; Culture Club/Getty Images
-
Don Cheadle plays Miles Davis in Miles Ahead.Brian Douglas, Ton Pouw—AP
-
Demetrius Shipp Jr. plays Tupac Shakur in All Eyez on Me.Summit Entertainment; Raymond Boyd—Getty Images
More Must-Reads From TIME
- The Real Reason Florida Wants to Ban AP African-American Studies, According to an Architect of the Course
- Column: Tyre Nichols' Killing Is The Result of a Diseased Culture
- Without Evusheld, Immunocompromised People Are on Their Own Against COVID-19
- Here Are All the Movies and TV Shows That Make Up the New DCU
- TikTok's 'De-Influencing' Trend Is Here to Tell You What Stuff You Don't Need to Buy
- Column: America Goes About Juvenile Crime Sentencing All Wrong
- Why Your Tax Refund May Be Lower This Year
- Brazil Wants to Abandon a 34,000-Ton Ship at Sea. It Would be an Environmental Disaster
- The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in January 2023