Picture Perfect Acting: Stars Who've Played Famous Artists
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Dec. 9 2014, Updated 11:05 p.m. ET
Playing a famous artist can be a challenge for any actor! Amy Adams tackles the task head on as artist Margaret Keane in the new Tim Burton film Big Eyes. Take a look at other Hollywood stars who were picture perfect in their roles.
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Ed Harris played reclusive abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock in Pollock. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal.
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Val Kilmer played Willem DeKooning in Pollock.
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John Leguizamo played French post-impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge.
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In Factory Girl, Guy Pearce played 1960s pop artist Andy Warhol.
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Adrien Brody played Spanish painter Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris.
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Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso in the 1996 Merchant Ivory film Surviving Picasso.
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Robert Pattinson played Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, the 2006 film about Dali's relationship with poet Federico García Lorca.
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Joan Allen played Georgia O'Keeffe in a self-titled biopic of the modern artist.
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In 2002, Salma Hayek starred as surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in Frida.