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10 February 2006

Separated at Birth? Which celebrity (-ies) do you most resemble? Upload your photo (free reg. required)and let MyHeritage's Facial Recognition tell you.

post by: ericb at: 18:08 | 38 comments

It tells me that I resemble Yehuda Levi (61%) and Penelope Cruz (61%).

I can live with that.

posted by ericb 10 February | 18:10

It requires a tedious registration -- which the poster mentions, but the site neglects to mention until after the photo's been uploaded.

That's acting in bad faith, in my opinion, so fuck it.

posted by orthogonality 10 February | 18:18

Neat.

The top four (sex: all) were Salma Hayek, Alyson Hannigan, Elisha Cuthbert, and Zhang Ziyi. I'm flattered and all, but I've got 4 days worth of stubble in that picture.

Setting sex: M got me a scowling Paul Newman looking like he could play Jack Layton.

I'm impressed that the algorithm figured out where the face was in the picture and zoomed in on it. I played around with a similar thing a few years ago and got matched to Freddie Mercury, Noah Wyle, and Salma Hayek.

posted by porpoise 10 February | 18:20

Registration? I didn't have to enter any information other than the picture...

posted by porpoise 10 February | 18:21

That's four days of stubble or four hours?

posted by orthogonality 10 February | 18:23

Madonna. Ha! Salvador Dali! Whoohooo!

posted by dabitch 10 February | 18:24

Hey, I'm a marine mammal. Hairiness was a negative selection pressure for my ancestors.

posted by porpoise 10 February | 18:30

No fair, I got Elisa Cuthbert too. Crap thing.

posted by dabitch 10 February | 18:30

I didn't have to enter any information other than the picture...

I just cleared my cache of cookies -- and tried again. You can decline to register (by closing the reg. window) -- and it will allow for the uploading of one photo.

posted by ericb 10 February | 18:31

Using this pic, I got:
-Asia Argento (who I've never heard of but she's evidently really proud of her tummy tattoo.)
-Tori Amos
-Gillian Anderson
-Shakira (ha!)
-& Kevin Costner (wtf?)

posted by krix 10 February | 18:43

That was a bust. I didn't get Catherine Keener, who I really want to look like.

posted by Specklet 10 February | 19:03

Using this pic, I got in descending order: John Cusack, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Biggs, Alec Guiness, & Art Garfunkel.

The Cusack I've gotten before, but Art Garfunkel?

posted by jonmc 10 February | 19:11

I got 67% on Cusack, just for accuracy's sake.

posted by jonmc 10 February | 19:13

I tried (it wouldn't scan my face! it hates me!), but I don't know why I even bothered- strangers tell me almost every day I look like a young Liza Minelli.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 February | 19:14

I got Maria Sharapova 68% (not bad for a guy with a few days of stubble), Martin Scorcese 51%, Garry Kasparov 49%, Shahid Kapoor 48%, Ingmar Bergman 45%, Keith Moon 45%, Charles Schulz 44%, Milos Forman 43%, and Marlon Brando 43%.

If looks were everything I would look good on a tennis court, kick anybody's ass in chess, could draw an endearing cartoon, drink like a fish until I die and be the best damn drummer to ever walk the earth, direct some of the best damn movies ever made. And on top of that, star in some of Hollywood's most famous classics with a brief stint in Bollywood. Where did I go wrong?

posted by Mijo Bijo 10 February | 19:15

I didn't get a single female result. I guess I'm manliest motherfucker here. Which means we're in big trouble.

posted by jonmc 10 February | 19:25

Who is Jill Scott?

posted by ramix 10 February | 19:26

NSFW GIS for Jill Scott (if you have safesearch turned off).

posted by porpoise 10 February | 19:34

sadly, the nekkid chick in that search is not the Jill Scott, who is sexy as hell, along with being a great soul singer.

posted by jonmc 10 February | 19:37

My first top three: Marianne Faithfull (cool!), Liza Minelli, Uma Thurman(sure, whatever you say), Sophie Marceau (I wish).

I'm getting wildly different results for different pictures. But then, that's how actual photos treat me, too.

posted by Miko 10 February | 19:38

OK, using this pic I got Morrisey (!) (64%), Vivien Leigh (62%) and Johnny Depp (61%).

posted by jonmc 10 February | 19:50

All right with this image I get Kirsten Dunst, Madonna, Vincenzo Belini, Epasha Basu, Hale Barry, Natalie Portman, Alliyah, Romy Schneider, but she looks just like Angelina Jolie!

posted by Mijo Bijo 10 February | 20:05

Johnny Carson and Donald Rumsfeld? Harry Turtledove and Cate Blanchett?

Okay, my face is confused.

posted by selfnoise 10 February | 20:06

With this photo: Edith Stein, Angelina Jolie (ha! we do have similar noses, tho'), Alicia Keys, Billy Holiday.

posted by deborah 10 February | 20:43

Ortho, you can close the registration popup. You then get a message saying they "respect your privacy," but if you want to upload additional photos you'll have to register.

This is the same one someone posted a while back. Apparently, I still look like Jennifer Connelly. (I don't.)

But hey, I'm not complaining.

posted by mudpuppie 10 February | 21:22

Eh, from everyone's reports, this does not seem to be at all accurate.

posted by orthogonality 10 February | 21:32

Dammit! I just tried a completely different picture, and it came back with Rumseld AGAIN!

I guess I know what I'll look like when I'm old and evil.

posted by selfnoise 10 February | 21:44

Ok. I am seriously not kidding when I tell you that I tried another picture, and got George W. Bush.

I think someone is trying to tell me something.

posted by selfnoise 10 February | 21:52

Eh, from everyone's reports, this does not seem to be at all accurate.

Actually, I've been getting the Cusack comparison for years.

posted by jonmc 10 February | 21:58

Hah! i'm an original! No faces were detected! : >

(i used this ancient pic of me)

posted by amberglow 10 February | 22:14

I tried this once, and my top match was Eddie Murphy. Who is a nice-looking man and all, except that I'm a big white guy with a beard. I think it was because I was smiling and we both have sexy bedroom eyes.

posted by BoringPostcards 10 February | 22:30

Bedroom eyes? I have recroom eyes myself.

posted by jonmc 10 February | 22:42

1. John Belushi
2. Charles de Gaulle
3. Philip K. Dick

I'm not sure you could get more random than that. I'm a big fan of numbers 1 and 3 but I don't look a damn big like either of them. Pretty useless.

posted by octothorpe 11 February | 00:03

Susan Sontag, Tori Amos and Annette Bening.

A picture taken 20 years ago of me drunk off my face came up with someone named Priety Zinta (who?)

posted by essexjan 11 February | 05:47

I go through that painful registration process ("Please do not use profanity" What the fuck?) and then I get insulted!

I'm apparently a 54% match for L Ron Hubbard

Don't like that?

Well how about a 47% match with Danny motherfucking Kaye!

No? Well then try a 44% match with Demi Moore.

I coulda been in St Elmos Fire!

posted by dodgygeezer 11 February | 06:37

OK, I just tried another photo where I'm wearing glasses and now suddenly I'm a 70% match for .... Elton John. Wow, I feel so much better - I am so feeling the love tonight.

Bizarrely enough the new photo makes me a 57% match for Katie Holmes - so not only do I look like the pope of Scientology but I could also marry it's premier nut-job! How cool is that?!?!

posted by dodgygeezer 11 February | 06:44

Barack Obama, Julia Roberts, Charles Aznavour, Jim Carey, George Gershwin, Agam Rudberg, Joni Mitchell, George Michael, Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood.

... And from all of that, I take away: "WOOHOO! I look like Liv Tyler!!!!!"

I so wish

posted by taz 11 February | 08:05

Nikolai Gogol and Shatner.

posted by moonbird 11 February | 09:47

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