Actor Prosopagnosia: A Proso-poll-nosia

My wife was quite pleased with the results. Thanks everybody.

So we were watching Coming to America and my wife thought Patrice was played by Erica Tazel. WTF? Do the math!

So we are watching Hanna (2011) and she mistakes Michelle Dockery for Marie from Breaking Bad. NB we have watched both Downton Abbey and BB.

A minor case: watching S2 of Larry Sanders (1993) and she asks if Kristin Davis is Katie Holmes.

I noticed I was quite good at recognising actors with or without their normal make up on. Like could tell Warren Mitchell was the guy in Carry on Cleo despite not being made up to be whatver 30 years older than he normally was at the time.
& fun things like taht.

BUut does seem from time to time there are basic looks that get you jobs. I think there were a few women who popped uyp as ersatz Faye Dunaways at one point, not sure if she was taken on as looking like anybody before her.

I think I just recognised Michelle Gomez as a blur which i was thinking I had to correct myself over. BUt she is in the cast list of the show concerned as I just found out looking the show up.

BUt not quite the same thing as 3 guys wh have similar roles in things and might just fit the same basic description.

So, we're watching Gun Crazy (1950) and she suggests the lead is "the judge from My Cousin Vinny".

NB, we caught a few minutes of My Cousin Vinny a week or so ago.

Fred Gwynne seems hard to mistake for anyone else.

I mistook David Straitharn for Sydney Pollack for a long time.

once Pollack was dead I then realized my mistake

Ok, we've reached a new level. We started watching Hawkeye and in E2 my wife is confused and thinks Kate Bishop's mother is a superhero. After a few more questions, she says, "yeah, isn't she Jane Grey" (not a typo)? At this point, I finally deduce that she has confused Vera Farmiga and Famke Janssen. She keeps me on my toes.