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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is officially a dead ringer for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden , as first look pictures from Oliver Stone’s new movie prove.
The Inception actor is seen dressed in army uniform with a determined expression on his face in the photo from Snowden , due for US release in December.
Gordon-Levitt posted the image on his official Facebook page, with another behind-the-scenes shot of director Stone pulling a silly pose as he works on his twentieth movie.
Snowden follows the former CIA employee’s life before and after his leaking of thousands of classified documents to the press in 2013. He enlisted in the army in 2004 with the intention of fighting in Iraq, but broke both legs during basic training and was discharged, Gordon-Levitt said in the photo caption.
“After that, he was still determined to serve his country,” he wrote. “Love him or hate him, you gotta admit the guy’s strong-willed.”
Show all 23 1 /23Famous people and the actors who have played them Famous people and the actors who have played them Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs... Kutcher played the US entrepreneur who brought the world the iPod in 2013's 'Jobs'.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real CEO of Apple The real Steve Jobs died in 2011 from respiratory arrest. He has been described as the 'father of the digital revolution' and the 'master evangelist of the digital age'. Shame 'Jobs' received decidedly mixed reviews with Kutcher's portrayal much criticised as superficial.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Helen Mirren as HRH Queen Elizabeth II... Mirren won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in 2007's 'The Queen'. Stephen Frears' film depicts the aftermath of Princess Diana's death.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and England's real monarch 'The Queen' received widespread acclaim, with Mirren invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace after the film's release. The English actress was unable to attend due to filming commitments in Hollywood.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real World War II codebreaker Codebreaker Alan Turing relaxes with friends before his Bletchley Park days during the Second World War.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King... Oyelowo won critical praise for his role as the civil rights activist in Selma, despite being snubbed by the Oscars for his performance.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real civil rights activists US Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking... Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar at the 2015 Academy Awards for playing the famed physicist in The Theory of Everything.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is renowned in the world of science for his work on the theory of time.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles... Foxx won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as blind rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles in 2004's 'Ray'.
Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real soul legend Charles was planning to attend the premiere of 'Ray' but died several months beforehand of liver disease.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher... Streep won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal as Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 2011's 'The Iron Lady'. Her performance was widely-acclaimed and considered one of her finest.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real Iron Lady Thatcher did not watch 'The Iron Lady' so had no comment to make on Streep's presentation of her. Her children Mark and Carol were unimpressed, saying the film sounded like 'some left-wing fantasy' prior to its completion.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Naomi Watts as Princess Diana... Watts took on the title role of the Princess of Wales for 2013's 'Diana' about the last two years of her life. The film was slated by critics, with The Mirror writing that 'Wesley Snipes in a blonde wig would be more convincing' as Diana than Watts. Ouch.
Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real Princess of Wales Diana, Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash in the summer of 1997. What she would have made of Watt's performance in 'Diana' is a question best left unanswered.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor... Lohan played Taylor in TV movie 'Liz and Dick' about the Hollywood icon's torrid relationship with Richard Burton
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real iconic actress 'Liz and Dick' was panned by critics with comments including 'campy and overwrought' and 'an epic of pathetic miscasting'.
Famous people and the actors who have played them Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln... Day Lewis won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the former US president in 2012's 'Lincoln'. The film centres on Lincoln's efforts in January 1985 to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real former US president 'Lincoln' was warmly received by critics, with reviews including phrases such as 'the most remarkable movie Steven Spielberg has made' and 'one of the finest historical dramas ever committed to film'.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf... Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as post-War author Virginia Woolf in 2002's 'The Hours'. The film was highly-acclaimed and also won the Best Picture Oscar.
Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real 'Mrs Dalloway' author Woolf was not alive to see the film, having committed suicide by drowning in 1941. But she might well have been impressed, with journalists describing the film as 'deeply moving' and 'amazingly faithful'.
Famous people and the actors who have played them Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote... Hoffman, who died in February 2014 from a drugs overdose, won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' writer in 2005's 'Capote'.
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Famous people and the actors who have played them ...and the real 'In Cold Blood' author Capote died from liver cancer and drug intoxication in 1984 aged 59. 'Capote', and Hoffman's performance in particular, were praised by critics.
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Based on The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding, the storyline sees Snowden seek refuge in Russia after going on the run from the US government.
The real life Edward Snowden is trying to return to the US (AP) Zachary Quinto, Nicolas Cage and Divergent 's Shailene Woodley also star in Snowden , alongside Melissa Leo, Rhys Ifans, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Olyphant.
It is yet to be confirmed when Snowden will reach UK cinemas.
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