In September, fliers advertising a “Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest” popped up around New York City. The event called for people resembling the 28-year-old movie star to gather at the ...

Look-alikes experience fame overload. The first winner was Miles Mitchell, a 21-year-old economics student from Staten Island.In a sea of Timothées, he earned the loudest applause donning a Willy ...

“The look-alike contests are so Great Depression era coded,” the playwright Jeremy O. Harris wrote on X this week, referring to competitions in the 1930s that assembled crowds of Charlie ...

From Timothée Chalamets in New York, to Paul Mescals in Dublin, to Dev Patels in San Francisco — celebrity look-alikes are coming forth to collect humble cash prizes and fleeting internet fame.