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

2. David Frost - Frost/Nixon

Another case of Ron Howard successfully making a brilliant movie from something that, while interesting, doesn't immediately lend itself to a two hour feature film, Frost/Nixon is the incredible dramatisation of The Nixon Interviews and the events surrounding them. Conducted by a then widely disregarded David Frost, they turned him into a political powerhouse and provide some of the most important moments in American political history.

Michael Sheen is incredible as Frost. In fact, he's so good that you can easily overlook that the similarities between Sheen and the man he's playing are rather superficial; the hair's right, but beyond that you couldn't tell they were the same person. This is testament to Sheen's ability; he's also played Brian Clough and Tony Blair with the same capturing of character despite minimal resemblance.

On the other side of the room there's Richard Nixon. He's a particularly tricky person to get represented on film, with movies having varying success of capturing his distinctive likeness. Frank Langella, who played Nixon opposite Sheen's Frost, stands as one of the stronger ones.