Famous actors and the real-life characters they played

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who was the sixteenth president of the United States of America from March 1861 until his murder in April 1865.

Lincoln is an American epic historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln.

Waris Dirie is a model, writer and activist in the fight against female genital mutilation. From 1997 to 2003 she was UN special ambassador against female genital mutilation.

Desert Flower is an English, German and Austrian co-production by Sherry Hormann, the director. The story is based on the homonymous and autobiographical novel of Waris Dirie and was produced by, among others, the Desert Flower Film Productions Studios.

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón was a Mexican painter. Her life was marked by the misfortune of contracting poliomyelitis and then by a serious accident in her youth that kept her bedridden. Her surrealist paintings, even though she denies it, are really impressive.

Frida is a film directed by Julie Taymor and it was released in 2002 by Miramax Films. It is based on Hayden Herrera's book, that narrated the life of the famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who admitted having killed seven men in separate incidents; each of them, she said, raped her while she was engaged in prostitution.

Monster is an American film released on December 26, 2003. It tells the true story of Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men between 1989 and 1990.

Harvey Bernard Milk was a US politician and activist, who became the first openly gay man to be elected for a public office in the United States.

Milk is an American film  that was released on October 28, 2008, directed by Gus Van Sant and it's based on the real life of the politician Harvey Milk, who was elected for a public position in the United States and openly confessed to the gay society.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was a British politician who exerted as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, was the first woman who occupied this position in the country.

Norma Jeane Mortenson, later Norma Jeane Baker and better known by its stage name Marilyn Monroe, was an American film actress and one of the most popular of the 20th century, considered as a pop icon and a sex symbol.

My Week with Marilyn is a British film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges. It stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dougray Scott, Emma Watson and Judi Dench.

George Jung is an American ex-convict and drug dealer who was a member of the Medellin Cartel and was responsible for the importation of cocaine into the United States in the 1970s and into the early 1980s.

Blow is a drama American film directed by Ted Demme and written by David MacKenna and Nick Cassavetes. It stars Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Paul Reubens, Franka Potente and Ray Liotta.

Christine Ida Collins was a working class woman supervisor at a telephone company who fought for 7 years to find her missing son.

Changeling is a film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, released in 2008. It's based on a true story of the 1920s , about the disappearance and exchange of children.