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Tyee Photo Essay

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By Brian Howell, 29 Nov 2007, TheTyee.ca

  • Johnny Depp

    Johnny Depp

    Danny Lopez has more in common with Johnny Depp than looks. Not only was he born on the same day as Depp -- June 9, 1963 -- but they both have two sisters and a brother; further, Danny's brother's name is Johnny and Depp's is Danny.

  • Paris Hilton

    Paris Hilton

    "I met Paris Hilton in person, when I worked on her reality TV show The Simple Life. She's really sweet. It was cool to meet her, but I wasn't as surprised or excited to meet her as she was me. I already knew about her and act like her all the time, so to me, it was just normal. She said, 'Oh my god, you look like me -- that's hot,' as she was running out the door of a nightclub. That was cool."

  • Hillary Clinton

    Hillary Clinton

    "The responses to me as Hillary Clinton are very polarized. People either love her or hate her. In the South, I get more of the latter. Often I feel they forget they're talking to an impersonator and start relating to me as if I really am her; one man wanted to debate the abortion issue with me, for heaven's sake. I must take some credit for my acting skills if I can get them to suspend disbelief so thoroughly, but maybe it's just that she triggers something."

  • William Shatner

    William Shatner

    "William Shatner and I have the same jacket size, we're the same height and weight most of the time, and we both have a 'captainly' disposition and natural good looks, but I'm twenty years younger and my hair is real, but thinning. Some characters come and go, but my character is legendary and will go on forever."

  • Dr. Evil

    Dr. Evil

    Peter Banks was one of the best Austin Powers impersonators in the business . . . He was diagnosed with cancer and eventually lost his hair from the chemotherapy treatments. But, as the show must go on, he showed up at the 2006 Celebrity Impersonators Convention in Las Vegas as Austin's bald-headed nemesis, Dr Evil. [Banks died in August 2007.]

  • Rodney Dangerfield

    Rodney Dangerfield

    "When I get on stage, it's tough for me because I don't think of myself as an impersonator. I'm just being me. But all the audience sees is Rodney Dangerfield."