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Outkast's Andre 3000, the 37-year-old music star has been photographed in Dublin this week where he preparing to shoot a biopic of Jimi Hendrix 'All Is By My Side'.
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Off screen he does look like the guitar wizard of the '60s. Rapper Andre Benjamin, better known as Outkast's Andre 3000,  is in Ireland to play the lead role in a Hendrix biopic 'All Is By My Side'.
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  • Off screen he does look like the guitar wizard of the '60s. Rapper Andre Benjamin, better known as Outkast's Andre 3000,  is in Ireland to play the lead role in a Hendrix biopic 'All Is By My Side'.
  • King George VI and  Colin Firth. 'I'd never read a royal biography until I did The King’s Speech ," admitted the actor, who won the coveted best actor Oscar for the role.
  • Variety magazine reported last month that JaneFonda is to play former first lady Nancy Reagan in an all-star cast that includes Liam Neeson and Forest Whittaker, in a film about a butler who served US presidents from 1952 to 1986.
  • Mark Zuckerberg and actor Jesse Eisenberg. Aaron Sorkin who directed The Social Network gave Eisenberg just one piece of advice before shooting began:  ‘He said to speak fast’ the actor recounted.
  • 'Franklin D Roosevelt and actor Bill Murray. Hyde Park On Hudson, an upcoming film recounts the story of the British King and Queen's visit to Roosevelt's home in 1939. It raised a few eyebrows when the casting was first announced, but  photos from the set make clear that the 'Ghostbusters'  star looks the part.
  • Action actress Michelle Yeoh portrays Burmese freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady.  Yeoh had to learn Burmese to play Suu Kyi, and had to lose nearly nine kilos to make herself look more like her character.
  • Virginia Woolf and actress Nicole Kidman who played the critic and essayist in The Hours. Kidman got all the the hype for her prosthetic nose in The Hours – and a very fine nose it was too, it also helped win her the Oscar for best actress in 2008.
  • Margaret Thatcher and actress Meryl Streep.  The actress won her third Oscar this year for her portrayal of  the Iron Lady but was criticised for failing to acknowledge Mrs Thatcher in her acceptance speech.
  • J. Edgar Hoover and Actor Leonardo DiCaprio.The 36-year old  actor  was  transformed to look twice his age as part of his portrayal of J. Edgar Hoover, but it failed to get him any awards.
  • Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe and actor Kenneth Branagh with actress Michelle Williams in the movie My Week with Marilyn.  Branagh said both he and Williams set about  creating  characters instead of just doing impersonations. Both received Oscar nominations for their efforts.
  • Reports in the US suggest that Ashton Kutcher is set to play Steve Jobs in a forthcoming biopic about the late Apple founder
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Off screen he does look like the guitar wizard of the '60s. Rapper Andre Benjamin, better known as Outkast's Andre 3000, is in Ireland to play the lead role in a Hendrix biopic 'All Is By My Side'.
Credit: Date: May 15, 2012
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