Based on a true story

A project to capture Geni profiles from movies that were based on their life story. When you add to project, please also index it, and tag the actor who portrayed.

Reality has always exceeded fantasy. If many astounding stories have already undoubtedly been able to happen (even if not so excellently told), no one can yet imagine what else someone will do.

Alphabetical index

1. Maria Victoria Altmann - (Dame Helen Mirren)
2. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA - (Daniel Day-Lewis), (Hal Holbrook)

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Resources

• Geni discussion
• Livio’s list (Chronological order) { Micro resolutions (60kb) project's posters, unusable for commercial reproduction purposes, deleted without looking to offer alternatives}
• (Movies based on real events or people)
• “Presidential Historian Reviews Presidents in Film & TV, from 'Lincoln' to 'The Comey Rule'“ YouTube

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MP in progress

2023 The Beanie Bibble, by Kristin Gore

• Ty Warner (by Zach Galifianakis)

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2022 Devotion, by J. D. Dillard ..i. /!\ Boring Alert /!\

• Captain Thomas J. Hudner Jr. (by Glen Powell)
• Ensign Jesse L. Brown (by Jonathan Majors)

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2020 Rose Island, by Sydney Sibilia

• ing. Giorgio Rosa (by Elio Germano)
• Private (by Matilda De Angelis)
• Franco Restivo (by Fabrizio Bentivoglio)
• Giovanni Leone (by Luca Zingaretti)

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2019 The Professor and the Madman, *by Farhad Safinia, "P. B. Shemran"

• Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (*by Mel Gibson)
• Capt William Chester Minor, MD (by Sean Penn)
• Frederick James Furnivall (by Steve Coogan)

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2018 Green Book, by Peter Farrelly

• Don Shirley (by Mahershala Ali)
• "Tony Lip" (by Viggo Mortensen)
• Dolores A. Vallelonga (by Linda Cardellini)

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2017 American Made, by Doug Liman

• Barry Seal (CIA operative & drug smuggler) (by Tom Cruise)
• Pablo Escobar (by Private MP?)

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2016 War Dogs, by Todd Phillips

• David Packouz zzZz merging Zzz (by Miles Teller)
• Efraim Diveroli zzZz merging Zzz (by Jonah Hill)

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2016 Sully, by Clint Eastwood

• Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III (by Tom Hanks)

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2013 Pain & Gain, *loosely by Michael Bay

• Daniel Lugo (by Mark Wahlberg)
• Carl Weekes, Stevenson Pierre, and Jorge Delgado (by Dwayne Johnson, The Rock)
• Adrian 'Noel' Doorbal (by Anthony Dwane Mackie)
• Ed Du Bois III (by Ed Harris)
• Carolyn “Sissy” Du Bois (by Emily Kernan Rutherfurd)

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2011 The Intouchables, by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano

• Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (by Daniel Jean Auteuil)
• Private MP?(by Omar Sy)

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2009 The Young Victoria, by Jean-Marc Vallée

• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (by Emily Blunt deleted)
• Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (by Rupert Friend zZz merging zzZ)

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2009 The Blind Side, by John Lee Hancock, Jr. zzZz merging Zzz

• Michael Oher (by Quinton Aaron)
• Private MP? (by Sandra Bullock)
• Private MP? (by Tim McGraw)

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2009 Agora, by Alejandro Amenábar zzZz merging Zzz

• Hypatia of Alexandria (by Rachel Weisz deleted)
• Theon, of Alexandria (by Michael Lonsdale)
• Orestes, prefect of Egypt (by Oscar Isaac)
• St. Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria (by Sami Samir)
• St. Theophilus, 23rd pope of Alexandria (by Manuel Cauchi)

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2007 Mongol, by Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov

• Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire (by Tadanobu Asano)

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2007 American Gangster, by Sir Ridley Scott

• Frank Lucas (by Denzel Washington)
• Richie Roberts (by Russell Crowe)

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2007 300, by Zack Snyder

• Leonidas, king of Sparta (by Gerard Butler deleted)
• Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (by Lena Headey zzZz merging Zzz)
• Xerxes I 'the Great', king of Persia (by Rodrigo Santoro)

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2006 Napoleon and Me, by Paolo Virzì

• Napoléon I, emperor of the French (by Daniel Jean Auteuil)
• Count Narcisse Joseph Narcisse Marchand (by José Ángel Egido)
• Major-General Sir Neill Campbell, Knight. of Duntroon (by Achille Brugnini)
• Antoine Drouot (by Vincent Lo Monaco)

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2006 Flyboys, by Tony Bill

• Lt. Eugene Jacques Bullard (by Abdul Salis)
• Raoul Lufbery (by Martin Henderson)
• Frank Luke, Jr. (by James Franco)
• Georges Thenault (by Jean Reno)

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2006 Find Me Guilty, by Sidney Lumet

• "Jackie" DiNorscio (by Vin Diesel)

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2006 Fearless, *by Ronny Yu

• Huo Yuanjia (*by Jet Li)

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2005 The World's Fastest Indian, by Roger Donaldson

• Burt Munro (by Anthony Hopkins)

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2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose, *loosely by Scott Derrickson

• Anneliese Michel (loosely by Jennifer Carpenter)
• Ernst Alt & Arnold Renz (loosely by Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson)

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2005 Kingdom of Heaven, *by Sir Ridley Scott
*Many of the characters in the film are fictionalised versions of historical figures:

• Balian, lord of Ibelin (*by Orlando Bloom)
• Sibylla of Anjou, queen of Jerusalem (*by Eva Green)
• Raymond III, count of Tripoli (*by Jeremy Irons)
• The Hospitaller (*by David Thewlis)
• Raynald of Châtillon, lord of Hebron & Montréal (*by Brendan Gleeson)
• Guy I of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem & Cyprus (*by Marton Csokas)
• Baldwin IV the Leper, king of Jerusalem (*by Edward Norton)
• Barisan "the Old", lord of Ibelin (*by Liam Neeson deleted)
• Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub (*by Ghassan Massoud)
• Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (*by Alexander Siddig)
• Gerard de Ridefort, 10th Templar Grand Master (*by Ulrich Thomsen)
• Richard "the Lionheart", king of England (*by Iain Glen)

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2005 Joyeux Noël, by Christian Carion

• Walter Kirchhoff (by Benno Fürmann)
• Lieutenant Gordon, Scots Fusiliers (by Alex Ferns)
• the Crown Prince (by Thomas Schmauser)

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2005 Cinderella Man, by Ron Howard

• James J. Braddock (by Russell Crowe)
• Mae Fox (by Renée Zellweger)

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2005 Casanova, *loosely by Lasse Hallström

• Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (by Heath Ledger)
• Francesco Loredan, 116th doge of Venice (by Tim McInnerny)

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2004 Troy, *by Wolfgang Petersen

• Achilles Hero of the Trojan War (by Brad Pitt)
• Hector, Prince of Troy (by Eric Bana)
• Paris "Alexander" of Troy (by Orlando Bloom)
• Helen of Troy (by Diane Kruger merging ex)
• Agamemnon, king of Mycenae (by Brian Cox)
• Menelaüs, king of Sparta (by Brendan Gleeson)

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2004 The Passion of the Christ, by Mel Gibson

• Jesus (by Private MP?)
• Mary, mother of Jesus (by Maia Morgenstern merging )
• St. Mary Magdalene (by Monica Bellucci)
• Pontius Pilate, 5th procurator of Judea (by Hristo Shopov merging )

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2004 Hotel Rwanda, by Terry George

• Paul Rusesabagina (by Don Cheadle)
• Tatiana Rusesabagina (by Sophie Martin)
• Roméo Dallaire (loosely by Nick Nolte)

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2002 The Pianist, by Roman Polanski

• Wladyslaw Szpilman (by Adrien Brody)
• Wilm Hosenfeld (by Thomas Kretschmann)

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2001 Blow, by Ted Demme zzZz merging Zzz

• George Jung (by Johnny Depp)
• Private (by Penélope Cruz)
• Pablo Escobar (by Cliff Curtis)

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2001 A Beautiful Mind, by Ron Howard

• John Forbes Nash, Jr., Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1994 (by Russell Crowe)
• Alicia Nash (by Jennifer Connelly)

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1997 Seven Years in Tibet, by Jean-Jacques Annaud

• Heinrich Harrer (by Brad Pitt)
• Peter Aufschnaiter (by David Thewlis)
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
  (by Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk{14}, Private{8} & Dorjee Tsering{4})

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1997 Donnie Brasco, by Mike Newell

• Joseph D. Pistone (by Johnny Depp)
• Lefty Ruggiero (by Al Pacino)
• Al Indelicato, Sonny Red (by Robert Miano)

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1993 Schindler's List, by Steven Spielberg

• Oskar Schindler (by Liam Neeson deleted)
• Izak Itzhak Stern, Ha Cohen (by Sir Ben Kingsley)
• Amon Leopold Göth (by Ralph Fiennes)

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1990 GoodFellas, by Martin Scorsese

• Henry Hill, Jr. (by Ray Liotta)
• Jimmy Burke (by Robert De Niro)
• Thomas DeSimone (by Joe Pesci)

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1987 The Untouchables, by Brian De Palma

• Alphonse "Scarface Al" Gabriel Capone (by Robert De Niro)
• Eliot Ness (by Kevin Costner)
• Oscar Wallace (by Charles Martin Smith)
• George Stone (by Andy García)

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1987 Secondo Ponzio Pilato, by Luigi Magni

• Pontius Pilate, 5th procurator of Judea (by Nino Manfredi)
• Claudia Procula (by Stefania Sandrelli)
• Tiberius, Roman Emperor (by Mario Scaccia)
• Herod Phillip Antipas ., Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea (by Flavio Bucci)
• Saint Joseph of Arimathea (by Antonio Pierfederici)
• Annas בן שת (by Relja Bašić)
• Caiaphas High Priest of Iudaea (by Cosimo Cinieri)
• Salomé ., of Judaea (by Rita Capobianco)
• Jesus (by Carlo Panchetti)

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1979 Escape from Alcatraz, by Donald Siegel

• Frank Lee Morris (by Clint Eastwood)

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1962 Lawrence of Arabia, by Sir David Lean, CBE ..i. /!\ Boring Alert /!\

• Lawrence of Arabia (by Peter O’Toole)

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