Best Acting Performances based on real life people

[WesCrook]

Ike:

Doesn't get enough credit either...

 

[BXKingPin82]

 

[kingdarius]

Da GOAT

 

[AnonymityX1000]

 

[MartyMcFly]

Denzel as Malcom is the best to me but Deniro as jake Lamota is a close ass second. Raging bull is so dope.

But under him:
Peter O’Toole as TE Lawrence
Kingsley as Ghandi
DDL as lincoln
Liota as Henry Hill

 

[mr x]

Charles laughton as william bligh
Charles laughton as henry viii
Kirk douglas as vincent van gogh
Anne bancroft as anne sullivan
Jason mitchell as eazy e

 

[Tommy Fits]

Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt.

Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I liked dude who played JFK in 13 Days

Bruce Greenwood

 

[GiantGonzalez]

Depp and Del Toro in Fear and Loathing
Christian Bale in the fighter

 

[ahomeplateslugger]

michael fassbender as steve jobs was a really good one

 

[WakandanPride]

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote
Flex Alexander as Michael Jackson

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

George C Scott - Patton
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
Val Kilmer - Jim Morrison/The Doors
Robert DeNiro - Jake Lomatta/Raging Bull

 

[DosCadenaz]

Raging Bull

 

[Wise]

Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy

I been had that movie on my list. Any good?