15 Movie Characters Who Look Nothing Like They Did In Real Life

7. Mark Zuckerberg - The Social Network

Quite how much of The Social Network is representative of the actual making of Facebook is up to debate. Various of the people involved - co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the hard done-by Eduardo Saverin and genius Mark Zuckerberg himself - have all claimed it takes the broad strokes and twists events into a more likeable narrative; the whole issue with the Winklevii was rather inconsequential to many involved.

But we're willing to overlook that because what The Social Network does do, as writer Aaron Sorkin intended, is tell an interesting and entirely modern story well. If they'd followed in the footsteps of Orson Welles and made a film inspired by the truth, but with different characters (a la William Randolph Hearst and Citizen Kane) it would have looked cheap.

Of course, with a slightly loose meaning behind 'based on a true story' there's naturally going to be some differences. Jesse Eisenberg's character not only has a personality rather removed in many ways from real Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, but also looks nothing like him.