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10 Best Celebrity Impressions of Other Celebrities
Apr 4, 2025
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And for these Hollywood superstars, the chance to flatter their fellow Hollywood superstars with surprisingly accurate imitations was simply too tempting to pass up. Today, we’re counting down the 10 best celebrity impressions of other celebrities. Welcome to Rankworthy, the show where we rank just about everything.
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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And for these Hollywood superstars, the chance to flatter their fellow Hollywood superstars
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with surprisingly accurate imitations was simply too tempting to pass up. Today, we're counting down the 10 best celebrity impressions
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of other celebrities. Welcome to Rankworthy, the show where we rank just about everything
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While Simon Helberg was best known for playing one of the many socially stunted men on CBS's The Big Bang Theory
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in real life, he is a charismatic, charming performer. and you've seen Helberg let loose on one of his many viral talk show appearances
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you know a huge part of his appeal is his uncanny ability to mimic
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What's in the impression arsenal for Helberg? You've got your Nicolas Cages, your Robin Williams, your Al Pacinos, and even your Ben Stillers
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I guess he's just a lot of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know. I don't know
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Helberg's skills were so impressive, producers of The Big Bang Theory centered an episode around them
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allowing Howard Wolowitz to DM a game of Dungeons & Dragons using all of Helberg's celebrity voices
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Fan service? Sure. Super entertaining? Bazinga! The 1990s were full of pop culture feuds, from Backstreet Boys vs. NSYNC to Eminem vs. Everyone
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And in the female pop space, there was no bigger fight than Britney vs. Christina
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But what if you could hear them both at the same time? That's right
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When Christina Aguilera appeared on The Tonight Show to show off her pop impersonation skills
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she hit Britney Spears as a target one more time. Honestly, when Aguilera tackled Spears' iconic nasal timbre, we were shook
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Why did Aguilera wait this long to let this genie out of the bottle? And was she fighting dirty
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Based on her other impressions of divas like Cher and Shakira, we have to imagine that this is some friendly fire
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And frankly, we want to hear Spears' retaliation. If you saw A Star Is Born you saw actor Bradley Cooper give the entire world a new favorite impression to try Eternally deep country star Jackson Maine But don feel too bad for Mr Cooper In some ways based on his propensity to perform irreverent impressions at the drop of a hat
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the world-poking fun at Maine's timber is a bit of silly karma. If Cooper's met someone
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he's racked up an impersonation of them. We've seen him do it to Clint Eastwood, Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro
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Owen Wilson, Christian Bale, and President Bill Clinton. I think he's like, is there gonna be an 18-2
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and cannot be in it? In fact, you could say that his Jackson Maine voice is a bit of an impression of a Star's
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Born co-star Sam Elliott. Not that we're criticizing Cooper's process. His performance is far from shallow
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Sometimes it feels like Anna Kendrick was designed in a lab to be unfairly charming
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She's self-deprecating, always down to do bits on her late-night TV appearances
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Her Twitter game is unimpeachable. Oh, yeah, and she's outlandishly talented and an acclaimed actor and singer
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So how does Kendrick show her appreciation to her other talented peers? with an unfairly accurate impression, of course
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The best part of seeing celebs impersonating other celebs is knowing that they've done them in front of their subjects
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And when Kendrick dropped her Kristen Stewart take on a Christmas episode of Jimmy Fallon
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she not only dropped the fact that Stewart's seen it, but the fact that Stewart endorsed it as being accurate
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And she dropped it all within the Stewart impression. She was like, oh man, I do that with my mouth
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And I was like, you're doing it now, I know! In the Bourne franchise, Matt Damon played a spy
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who doesn't know his own identity. And whenever Damon cuts loose on TV
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we don't know which identity we'll see him as. America's Everyman is recently known
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for making us cringe laugh on SNL with his temperamental take on Brett Kavanaugh
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But that's only the tip of the iceberg of Damon's celebrity goofs
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Damon has impersonated people as wide-bearing as Chris Hemsworth, John Malkovich, and even Mike Tyson
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But his absolute favorite go-to is Mr. Time is a Flat Circle himself, Matthew McConaughey
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I'm gonna go over to Sochi. Talk to that president they have over there
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And me and him are going to take our shirts off Just about every time Damon would appear on a talk show especially David Letterman he would grant us all a new wrinkle in his McConaughey impersonation How do we like
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them apples? We think they're all right, all right, all right. Her vocals are unstoppable, her style
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is effortless, and her ability to turn personal tragedies into inspiration is, well, inspiring
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Ariana Grande, to paraphrase Nicki Minaj, runs pop. But did you know she also runs very good
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impressions of other female vocalists? These imitations are so good, you kind of want Grande
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to record a tribute album of everyone else's greatest hits. Thanks to the various appearances
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on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show, we've seen Grande bailed out her best Rihanna
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Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Shakira, and Celine Dion. But her performance skills aren't
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just limited to music. She's also given us uncannily accurate impressions of two Jennifers
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Coolidge and Lawrence. They told me not to do a game show, but I was like, screw it, I can have
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fun. I'm a regular person. And for all of those incredible impressions, Grande deserves more than
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seven rings. Oprah Winfrey's image is generally marked by seriousness. From her talk show, to her
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book club, to her performances in films like The Color Purple, to her proclivity for giving out
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cars, Winfrey projects an elevated sense of humanity that we are lucky to be near. Thus
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it was super duper refreshing to see her cut loose and impersonate her A Wrinkle in Time co-star
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Reese Witherspoon with hilarious aplomb. On the late night show, Witherspoon was explaining that
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she acted a bit like a set mom. And before everyone knew it, Winfrey chimed in with a
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stunningly perfect rendition of Witherspoon's aggressive southern charm. Not to be outdone, Witherspoon responded with on-the-fly impressions of both Winfrey and her
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co-star Mindy Kaling. And it's no big little lie, she was impressive in her impressions
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From her highly acclaimed and highly serious turns in both American Horror and Crime Story
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You wouldn't necessarily guess that Sarah Paulson is down to clown. But if you give the actor some room to play
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she will run the room with her amazing impressions and effervescent charisma
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It makes sense she starred in Ocean 8 because she stole the voices from several stars Among Paulson impersonation victims Juliette Lewis Drew Barrymore Shakira Holly Hunter Kathleen Turner and even her Ocean 8 and Bird Box co Sandra Bullock
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What's more is that Barrymore, Lewis, and Bullock have all publicly responded to Paulson's takes
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And while they admittedly were blindsided, they were also impressed. And Drew Barrymore was there
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She was like, Sarah, that was such a good impression. From Sherlock to Smaug to Strange, Benedict Cumberbatch has blessed several iconic characters with his iconic vocal quality and acting gravity
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But Cumberbatch's talents go far beyond performing what's on the page. He is a truly phenomenal impersonator of celebrities and fellow thespians, with a quickness and playfulness that's hard to beat, even from professional mimics
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Cumberbatch's Alan Rickman is a perfect melding of one acclaimed deep-voiced British actor with another
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I like big butts and I cannot lie. But he packs more of a range than that
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So much more range that in nearly every talk show appearance he's made, he is rapid fire quizzed by the host to deliver random celebrity voices
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and he knocks them all out of the park. Particularly the time he impersonated his MCU co-stars
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As depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki is a trickster god who has a propensity for shape-shifting
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into familiar figures for his own personal gain. It thus makes a whole lot of sense that Loki's performer, Tom Hiddleston, is himself a jaw-droppingly good impersonator
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shape-shifting his voice into familiar figures for our own personal gain. Life-imitating art, you know
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Who has Hiddleston impersonated? Give us a sec to take a deep breath
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Chris Evans, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Owen Wilson, Chris Hemsworth, Taika Waititi, Al Pacino, Graham Norton, Jeff Goldblum, Orson Welles, Cookie Monster, and, um, a horse named Joey
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In a post-Endgame MCU, it's clear what Kevin Feige must do. Give Cumberbatch and Hiddleston a show together just to do a bunch of impressions
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I think everyone does an impression of Christopher Walken because he's such an easy kind
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You know, I feel like what this show needs is more cowbell
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