Lights, camera, action – got it! About ten minutes after I hit publish yesterday, John (my husband) finally figured out who I was thinking of the whole time.
Bob Balaban (the NBC executive Russell Dalrymple on Seinfeld). This is EXACTLY who I was thinking of and WHY COULDN’T HE HELP ME COME UP WITH THIS ANSWER THREE DAYS EARLIER BEFORE I LOST MY MIND.
For reference, here is the now-released once-convicted murderer (Jens Soering) that, so far in the Netflix docuseries, appears guilty but the jury is still out (pun intended):
Bob Balaban
Readers made many other excellent suggestions and if you’re looking for an easy way to waste five minutes of your life, keep scrolling:
Your turn. If you didn’t chime in yesterday – and if you’ve bothered to waste five perfectly good minutes of your day reading this post – after seeing all these pictures…who do you think is the closest doppelganger for Jens? I’m still leaning toward Bob Balaban, but the Fred Armisen/Anthony Fauci cross is VERY intriguing and, quite frankly, he has crossover traits with everyone pictured above – even Anne Robinson (though she might be the weakest link…sorry, couldn’t resist). The suggestion that took me most by surprise was Christoph Waltz. Yes! I see a clear resemblance to Waltz.
Thanks to everyone for writing in. This was…fun! And very relieving to not be spending time every day wracking my brain for Bob Balaban.
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Sarah
I KNEW IT!!!
Elisabeth
Great minds think alike?!!
Suzanne
Yes! I knew it. 🙂
ccr in MA
Oh, I’m so glad y’all were able to figure it out! Years ago (how is 1996 so long ago), I saw a movie (Ransom) that had an actress I was SURE I had seen in something, just as a minor character, and I could picture a scene she was in, in a room with guitars on the walls. This was long before IMDB, so I couldn’t look it up, and pre-blog, so I couldn’t crowdsource it, and I thought I was never going to get it. WEEKS later, the penny dropped (Lili Taylor, who I remembered from Say Anything), and I was SO relieved.
All the capitals and parentheticals to say, I understand your relief.
Elisabeth
You get it! It was such a relief to have this ridiculous thing out of my head 🙂
San
Phew. Now we can go back to sleeping at night. Some great suggestions (I wouldn’t have thought about Bob Balaban because his name is unfamiliar to me… but I recognized him in the images!)
Elisabeth
Haha. It really was driving me to utter distraction.
Nicole MacPherson
I totally missed the original post! But yay for figuring it out!
Beckett @ Birchwood Pie
The ten cumulative minutes that I’ve spent with both post have been the ten most entertaining minutes I can remember in a while. How fun!
Elisabeth
Well, thanks, Birchie. I’m glad it wasn’t a complete waste of everyone’s time. And I can now move on to thinking about more important things. It was driving me to distraction.
Tobia | craftaliciousme
Is it weird that I only really recognize one name? I am not good at this kind of stuff…
Elisabeth
I’m not good at it either – hence needing to ask people! I am HORRIBLE at remember actor/actress names. My husband is great at it.
Ernie
I think Waltz was the closest aside from your initial guess. See, I knew who each of these people were, but I am not good knowing celebrities’ names. I mean I know who Taylor Swift is, because I do not live under a rock.
Anne
I think it’s the chin. At least, that’s what it seems like to me. These people all have very clearly defined jawlines and chins.
I also know who none of them are, save for Stephen Hawking and Bill Nye the Science Guy. 🙂
Elisabeth
Ooooo. A GREAT observation.