Celebrities who look unrecognisable in their movies

Harry Potter
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort, a twisted, evil, power-hungry, powerful wizard, and the founder and supreme leader of the Death Eaters.

Emma Thompson as Professor Trelawney
Hogwarts Divination professor, predicted the prophecy that prompted Lord Voldemort to go after the Potters.




It
Bill Skarsgård as It / Pennywise the Dancing Clown
An ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every twenty-seven years.




Suicide Squad
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Waylon Jones / Killer Croc
A supervillain who suffers from a regressive atavism which caused him to develop reptilian features. Being a meta-human, he possesses near superhuman strength, high endurance, and the capacity to breathe underwater. His skin allows him to withstand high caliber weapons and skin abrasion. Akinnuoye-Agbaje described the character as "a cannibal with rage issues".

Jay Hernandez as Chato Santana / El Diablo
A former Los Angeles gang member who has powers that allow him to summon flames, and transform himself into a monstrous horned demon-like entity.He has squelched his fire-conjuring powers to a solitary flame as penance for the horrors he inflicted on those he loved.




The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher
A British stateswoman and politician who was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century.




X-Men
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
A mutant with shapeshifting abilities, globally renowned for saving Nixon's life 10 years prior. She is also Xavier's once closest ally and his adopted sister. Lawrence said, "she hears about what happened to Erik and she wants to seek him out and help him."

Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse
Born in ancient times, and presumably the world's first mutant, he has a variety of destructive superhuman abilities, including telekinesis, cyberpathy, teleportation, and the ability to augment other mutants' abilities.




Guardians of the Galaxy
Karen Gillan as Nebula
An adopted daughter of Thanos who was raised with Gamora as siblings and is a loyal lieutenant in the employ of Ronan and Thanos.




The Hours
Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf
An English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century, and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.




Monster
Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos
A former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.




How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Jim Carrey as the Grinch, a misanthropic green creature who despises Christmas and the Whos of Whoville. It is revealed in his origin story that he started to hate Christmas after his school classmates humiliated him when he tried to shave his face.




The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, a man who ages in reverse.




The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
Salander is a computer hacker who has survived severe emotional and sexual abuse. The character was a "vulnerable victim-turned-vigilante with the "take-no-prisoners" attitude of Lara Croft and the "cool, unsentimental intellect" of Spock.




Foxcatcher
Steve Carell as John Eleuthère du Pont, American multimillionaire, philanthropist, and wrestling enthusiast.




Cloud Atlas
Halle Berry as Jocasta Ayrs




The Grand Budapest Hotel
Tilda Swinton as Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis