Lance Mannion revealed

The real me.

Mannion.  Lance Mannion.

No.  Wait.  I'm sorry.  This is the real me.

"Who did the President, who killed Kennedy. Fuck, man! It's a mystery, it's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters don't even know, don't you get it?!"

While back I did a post asking readers, Who'd play you in the movies?

I gave my own choices to play Lance Mannion.

Keifer Sutherland and William Hurt.

Turns out I was way off.  MyHeritage.com, a geneology site, has a feature that will tell you what celebrities you most resemble.

Upload a photo of yourself and their computer scans their data base to find celebrities with features like yours.  The software's designed to help people tracing their family trees find resemblances between themselves and possible relatives.

It's quick and it's easy and I did it and now I can tell you.

I look like Pierce Brosnan.

Or Joe Pesci.

There's a set of twins separated at birth.

Honest to God, those are my top two matches.

The site doesn't explain what the software looks for in deciding who you look like.  Let me be quick to assure you that when it picked Pesci as a match for me it wasn't going by hairline.  The picture they're using of him is from My Cousin Vinny.

For Brosnan and me they must have used an algorithm that matches for charm, sex appeal, and the ability to look good in a dinner jacket.

The feature gives you half a dozen close matches, so I also look like Ernest Borgnine, mathematician Alan Turing, English soccer great Bobby Charlton, and Bono.

The feature does not limit recognitions to your own gender either.  But only one woman turned up resembling me.

Anne Frank.

I'm kind of proud of that one.

Your turn.

Make sure you click on the arrow in the bottom right corner of your results window to see more than the first match.

Comments

[Exiled in New Jersey]

Thanks Lance! Pam uploaded a photo of herself and her two sons, both about 35 from the one's recent wedding. Son # 1 was Patrick Stewart, Son # 2 Nicolas Cage, but Pam turned out to be Michael Douglas. Tell her to talk to me again.

Seriously her only photo of me features my 85 lb shorn sheepdog. She wanted to upload it, but I did not want to know that I resembled Rin Tin Tin.

[Jennifer]

Oh! This has got to be bogus! I'm not even divulging the people who came up, but will say I get to play Atticus in the next community project!!! I then put in my husband since he gets comments all the time about who he reminds people of... and who came up??? Maharishi Mahesh! The only thing I saw in common was a little gray in the beard... Harumph.

[tom truthful]

"What, you think I'm funny? You think I'm hear for your amusement?!"

yeah, that sounds like you, Joe-man.

I'd try it, but I'm afraid of who they'd match me with...that and I have no ability to scan or upload images of myself.

Poor excuse perhaps, but I'm sticking with it!

[Nance]

Mine are equally ridiculous. But in a fun way.

[Jennifer]

Okay, I missed the little arrow at the bottom... I feel a little better now that Meg Ryan had the same percentage as Gregory Peck. Phew! Of course right after Meg came Johnny Depp... followed by Emma Watson.

[Exiled in New Jersey]

Now this is sad: Pam did submit dog and man; the response was that they could not find a face. At this point I would settle for Lassie. The person I resembled twenty years ago or so was Crown Prince Rudolph of Mayerling fame. The cop next door was the one who pointed this out, saying I was a dead ringer for him. Then some trick of aging turned me into the late Sonny Bono. A street person in Philly would shout "Sonny Bono" as I walked by. I think that is why I have never taken up skiing.

I tried to console Pam about Michael Douglas, saying perhaps the second choice was better, but when she clicked up popped a photo of an ancient Estee Lauder.

[Jennifer]

Exiled- did you select your face with a box? I did a friend and his face was not "readable" either. When I "located" it for the program, it worked.

Tell Pam not to feel so bad. I used a photo with sunglasses for one and got Karl Lagerfeld!

[Likeable Friend]

Okay, I fell for it too! I'm a combination between Sigourney Weaver and Helen Hunt. Funny...people have told me that I resemble Sigourney. Maybe there IS something to this! :)

And Lance, you can't get much better than Pierce Brosnan. That combined with Pesci's sense of humor... Not bad at all!

[theophylact]

Matthew Perry (66%), Roland Barthes (63%), Rupert Murdoch (61%), Roy Scheider (59%), Alec Guinness (58%), Ariel Sharon (56%), TED BUNDY (56%)??? I know similarity isn't transitive, but how can I look equally like Ariel Sharon and Ted Bundy?

[Claire]

Hahaha, this thing is fun, but oh so weird. I've done it before, but with a different picture. Before, my top match was some long-dead, silent-era ingenue I had never heard of. Now my top match is John Barrymore! And the sad thing is I can see the resemblance (plus we have very similar expressions in our respective photos). My next best match is Nicky Hilton, which frightens me tremendously. Ick. Then Gillian Anderson, Keanu Reeves. At the bottom end I'm matched with (at 64%) a young Cybill Shepard (not too shabby)and (at 62%) Bobby Fischer (?!).

This thing is good at telling if you have glasses and matching expressions, or so it seems to me.

[SAP]

I used a very old picture of my brother and me. I resemeble Matt Damon and Kylie Minogue and my brother resembles Alec Baldwin and Helena Bonham Carter.

[Exiled in New Jersey]

She did highlight the face, Jennifer, but part of the top of head in missing and my chin disappears into my shirt. I am more or less leaning into the frame to keep my canine-American in place. Pam's grandchild took the photo to be of the mighty Farfel.

Personally I think the thing is fixed; everybody is coming up with weirdos and Lance magically becomes Pierce Brosnan. You don't think he submitted a photo of Mr. B, do you?

[Jennifer]

Exiled- You know, I was wondering if this site was really just a front for Lance and that he just wanted us all to send in our photos so he could post them willy nilly or use them in other evil ways.

I was tempted to try my dog just to see what would come up and also, to try a celeb to see if they were matched with their likeness.

I just did my youngest, a cute little girl, and the person most resembling her was the older Shirley MacLaine! Next in line was none other than Gen. George Marshall!

[blue girl]

...everybody is coming up with weirdos and Lance magically becomes Pierce Brosnan.

LOL!

[mac macgillicuddy]

WTF? John Denver????

[Uncle Merlin]

Wow// I have french in my background we already know this BUT
4 of the 7 picks were/are famous french men and women!!
#1 Aristide Briand
#2 Marguerite Yourcenar
MY PERSONAL FAVE #3 Burt Lancaster!! Yeah!
#4 John Major
#5 Hugo Chavez
#6 David Trimble ??????
#7 Adrien Brody
#8 Eamon de Valera

not too shabby!

[Uncle Merlin]

Okay 2 of the 8 are but the other 2 havea french names!

[David Parsons]

*Cackle* Not a single match. Not one. Which is particularly funny because, at least until I collapsed into middle-aged wrinkles and grey hair a couple of years ago, people would _regularly_ ask me if I was some sort of television or movie star, because they recognised me from somewhere but didn't know where.

[Mike Schilling]

Ezra Pound, Henri Petain, and Spiro Agnew. Good Lord!

[Mike Schilling]

And you got Pierce Brosnan? There must be some mistake; he played Rory O'Manion, not Lance.