Movie actors by real life rôles quiz

Captain Richard Phillips, Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

Denzel Washington
Benedict Cumberbatch
Tom Hanks
Helen Mirren

Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician.

Octavia Spencer was in Hidden Figures, but she played Dorothy Vaughan, not Katherine Johnson.
Charlize Theron
Taraji Henson
Jennifer Beals

Alan Turing, Julian Assange.

Kevin Hart
Benedict Cumberbatch
Tom Hanks
Matthew Goode was in The Imitation Game with Cumberbatch, but not The Fifth Estate.

Jane Hawking, first wife of Stephen Hawking.

Felicity Jones
Vivian Wu
Natalie Portman
Tyler Perry

Adolf Hitler.

Vanessa Bayer has never played Hitler, as far as I know. She did play Donald Trump in a Saturday Night Live skit, though.
Anthony Hopkins, David Bamber, Alec Guinness
Tom Cruise played Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler, played by David Bamber, in Valkyrie.
Charlie Chaplin played a very thinly veiled parody of Hitler in The Great Dictator, but technically not Hitler.

George Sand, French novelist.

Hilary Swank
Daniella Sea
Judy Davis
Melissa McCarthy

SH2 Antwone Fisher, U. S. Navy.

Denzel Washington actually played Lt. Commander Jerome Davenport, Antwone Fisher's psychiatrist.
Derek Luke
Tom Hanks, Patrick Stewart, Hayden Christensen
Kevin Hart

Charlie Chaplin. This one might feel like a trick question.

Patrick Stewart
Martin Freeman
Melissa McCarthy
Robert Downey, Jr.

Amelia Earhart, one of the first woman aviators.

Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan. However, Kate Mulgrew played Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager for all episodes of that show, including the episode in which Sharon Lawrence played Amelia Earhart.
Hilary Swank, Amy Adams, Sharon Lawrence, Vanessa Bayer
Tom Hanks, Tyler Perry
Kate Mara, Harriet Smithson

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State under President Barack Obama.

Amy Adams, Kate Mulgrew
Cameron Diaz
Amy Poehler, Kate McKinnon
Hillary Clinton played a bartender who served drinks to Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton on Saturday Night Live.

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