Total Film's 50 Best Portrayals of Real People

Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta

Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi

Charlize Theron as Aileeen Wuornos

Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence

Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln

Falconetti as Joan of Arc

John Hurt as John Merrick

Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena

Bruno Ganz as Hitler

Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin

Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schndler

Richard Attenborough as John Christie

Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands

Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill

Hellen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II

Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke as Annie Sullivan and Hellen Keller

George C. Scott as General George S. Patton

Robert Downey, Jr. as Charlie Chaplin

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk

Meryl Streep as Margaret Tatcher

Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious

Denzel Washington as Malcolm X

Judi Dench as Queen Victoria

Eric Bana as Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read

Jamie Fox as Ray Charles

Colin Firth as King George VI

Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce

Sigourney Weaver as Dian Fossey

Charles Laughton as Henry VIII

Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg

Ian McKellen as James Whale

Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali

Tom Cruise as Ron Kovic

Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar

Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett as Ike and Tina Turner

Michael Douglas as Liberace

Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn

Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson

Marlene Dietrich as Catherine The Great

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy

Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby

Nigel Hawthorne as King George III

Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy

Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott

Michael Sheen as Brian Clough