The entire time binge watching Downton Abbey a couple weeks ago I had the strangest feeling that I’ve seen all these people before. Each season, as new characters were introduced, I was struck with the feeling that I knew them. Finally, I caught up entirely and had to share my findings with the world. Yes, I know everyone thinks that Mary Crawley looks like Keira Knightley, but I don’t see it. I think they’re just familiar with Keira Knightley playing period piece damsels. However, literally everyone else on the show is a slightly odd-looking version of someone real. Let me know your thoughts in the comments, whether you see the resemblances in these Downton Abbey lookalikes or not.
Here is my list of Downton Doppelgangers:
Anna Bates looks like Chloe Sevigny
Evelyn Napier looks like a young Hugh Grant
Alfred Nugent looks like Todd from Breaking Bad
Daisy Robinson-Mason looks like a pale Alexis Bledel
Mr. Carson looks exactly like the Yellow Angry Bird
Cora Crawley looks like Carla Gugino
Dr. Clarkson looks like Cliff Clavin of Cheers
Edith Crawley is Michael Cera’s twin sister
Ethel looks like SNL’s Vanessa Bayer (the one that plays Miley Cyrus)
Isobel Crawley looks like Eric Idle (even when he’s not in drag)
Jimmy Kent looks like that guy from The Mentalist (Simon Baker?)
Lavinia Swire starred in Despicable Me 2 as Lucy Wilde
Matthew Crawley looks like an imperfect Ryan Gosling
Rosamund’s Lady Maid (Marigold Shore) looks like Christina Ricci
John Bates looks like the White Angry Bird (Especially after the “incident”)
Mr. Bates also looks like the baseball from the Sandlot
Robert Crawley is a British Colm Meaney (who happens to be Irish)
Rose MacClare looks like this porn star
Sybil Crawley looks like a fugly Megan Fox
Tom Branson looks like Eric Murphy from Entourage (I don’t know which is which)
William Mason looks like Jim Halpert
Thomas Barrow looks like Christian Bale
The Dowager Countess looks and acts like Yoda (especially old Dagobah swamp Yoda)
So what do you think? Did I miss anyone?