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Popular targets are [[Marilyn Monroe]] (who may need her own subtrope someday) and [[Elvis Impersonator|Elvis Presley]]. See also [[Body Double]], who's expected to impersonate an assassination-prone ruler.
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== Film ==
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* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' and the waiting staff at Jack Rabbit Slims. "That's the Marilyn Monroe section. That's Mamie Van Doren. I don't see Jayne Mansfield, she must have the night off."
* In ''[[Dave]]'', the titular Dave is a dead ringer for the president and often takes side jobs impersonating the president to advertise local businesses. He gets recruited to be the president's body double, but continues to pretend to be the president when the real one suffers a stroke.
* ''[[Moon Over Parador]]'': Basically the entire premise. A moderately successful stage actor is recruited to portray a recently deceased dictator of a Central American banana republic.
* In ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]'' one half of the cast is a infirm Elvis impersonator (the other a black-man who believes himself to be the real JFK) only the twist is he believes he really is Elvis who preformed a [[Trading Places]] like switch with a normal impersonator.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'', there's Joseph Stalinov, who's an impersonator of Josef Stalin. Yes, that Stalin. He appeared in one episode, and most of the major cast thought he was real Stalin even after he explained he wasn't. Even those who ''personally'' knew Stalin believed that the impersonator was real.
* In ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'', Doof-1 tried to persuade Doof-2 to keep him as an impersonator for boring events.
* In ''[[Back to The Future (cartoon)|Back to The Future]]'', Marty will have impersonators in the future. One hundred years after the series' "present" time.
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== Real Life ==
* Actor Robert Sacchi has made his entire career on the fact that he's a dead ringer for Humphrey Bogart. In
* Female wrestler Shelly Martinez, better known as Ariel in [[WWE]] and Salinas in [[TNA]], has done [[Bettie Page]] porn.
* The vast majority of Scott Innes' voicework is impersonating the late Casey Kasem's higher-voiced roles, such as voicing modern adaptations of [[Scooby Doo|Shaggy]] and parodying Casey's ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Gatchaman]]'' work in ''[[Megas XLR]]''.
* Rich Little mostly just does voice impressions, but for [[The Movie]] of ''The Late Shift'', he played Johnny Carson.
* The Universal Studios theme parks have celebrity look-alikes wander around occasionally as photo/autograph opportunities for the tourist. Why someone would want an autograph from a Marilyn Monroe or Charlie Chaplin ''impersonator''...
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* Fred Travalena was nicknamed "Mr. Everybody" for this reason.
* [http://www.mysteryvisits.com John C. Sherwood] is the reason so many people in the world can claim to have personally met [[Sherlock Holmes]].
* [[Improv Everywhere]] had their own fun with this, by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvBbVA36y1U positioning a double for King Phillip IV of Spain (1605-65) in front of a 400-year-old painting of the king],.
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