15 People Who Inspired the Famous Characters We Love Today

in #movies6 years ago

While some famous characters were derived completely from their creators’ figment of the imagination, a lot of beloved characters were actually inspired by real people they knew. Lucy who suffers amnesia in 50 First Dates, for example, is based on Michelle Philpots who suffers the same fate and has a husband that reminds her every day that she is married.
Miss Piggy, The Muppet Show
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James Bond
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Lucious Lyon, Empire
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Tony Stark, Iron Man
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Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey
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Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
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Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
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Olivia Pope, Scandal
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Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
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Victor Navorski, The Terminal
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Princess Aurora, Sleeping Beauty
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Rocky Balboa, Rocky
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Temperance “Bones” Brennan, Bones
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Popeye
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Bonus: Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory
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