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Added by Kandi on 2 Jul 2016 07:10
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Actors Who Played Real Writers

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The Life of Emile Zola
People who added this item 148 Average listal rating (66 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.2
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Paul Muni as Emile Zola
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Madame Bovary (1949)
People who added this item 52 Average listal rating (34 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Madame Bovary (1949)

James Mason as Gustave Flaubert
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Beloved Infidel
People who added this item 23 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.1
Beloved Infidel
Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck as F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Julia
People who added this item 130 Average listal rating (63 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.1
Julia (1977)

Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman
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Cross Creek
People who added this item 18 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7
Cross Creek (1983)

Mary Steenburgen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
People who added this item 243 Average listal rating (122 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 7.9
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

(1985)
Ken Ogata as Yukio Mishima
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Out of Africa
People who added this item 751 Average listal rating (429 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.2
Out of Africa (1985)

Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
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Barfly
People who added this item 328 Average listal rating (184 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.2
Barfly (1987)

Mickey Rourke as Charles Bukowski
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
People who added this item 686 Average listal rating (403 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.8
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)... (1989)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown
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Henry & June
People who added this item 285 Average listal rating (140 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.3
Henry & June (1990)
Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward and Uma Thurman

Fred Ward as Henry Miller
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Shadowlands
People who added this item 165 Average listal rating (101 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.3
Shadowlands (1993)

Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Winger as Helen Joy Davidman
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Tom & Viv
People who added this item 17 Average listal rating (9 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.3
Tom & Viv (1994)
Miranda Richardson and Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe as T.S. Eliot
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The Postman
People who added this item 355 Average listal rating (225 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
The Postman (1994)

Philippe Noiret as Pablo Neruda
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
People who added this item 74 Average listal rating (31 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 6.4
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker
The Basketball Diaries
People who added this item 1188 Average listal rating (673 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.3
The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll
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Total Eclipse
People who added this item 367 Average listal rating (170 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.5
Total Eclipse (1995)

Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine
The Last Time I Committed Suicide
People who added this item 51 Average listal rating (15 ratings) 6.1 IMDB Rating 5.6
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)

Thomas Jane as Neal Cassady
Shakespeare in Love
People who added this item 2572 Average listal rating (1596 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 7.1
Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare
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Iris
People who added this item 269 Average listal rating (151 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
Iris (2002)

Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as John Bayley
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The Hours
People who added this item 1954 Average listal rating (1147 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
The Hours (2002)

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
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Sylvia
People who added this item 232 Average listal rating (108 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 6.3
Sylvia (2003)

Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes and Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath
Finding Neverland
People who added this item 3592 Average listal rating (2227 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.7
Finding Neverland (2004)
Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp as Sir James Matthew Barrie
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Capote (2005)
People who added this item 1512 Average listal rating (866 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.3
Capote (2005) (2006)

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote
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Infamous
People who added this item 205 Average listal rating (115 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
Infamous (2006)
Toby Jones and Sigourney Weaver

Toby Jones as Truman Capote
Miss Potter
People who added this item 630 Average listal rating (354 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.9
Miss Potter (2007)

Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter
Becoming Jane
People who added this item 986 Average listal rating (556 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.1
Becoming Jane (2007)

Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen
The Last Station
People who added this item 284 Average listal rating (135 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
The Last Station (2010)

Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy
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Julie & Julia
People who added this item 1253 Average listal rating (781 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7
Julie & Julia (2009)

Meryl Streep as Julia Child
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