A Rogue’s Gallery of Celebrities as Famous Villains

“Rooney Mara as The Sociopath”

The New York Times Magazine has another interesting celebrity photo/video project on display. It’s a celebration of villany in Hollywood, where they’ve dressed up the best stars of the year as famous movie bad guys for a series of photo and video shoots.

You can see the videos of each character at the NYT here, but I’ve compiled a gallery of the costumes and celebs below if you don’t have the time it takes to watch all those movies.

I’m not going to tell you where all of these are from. Some you’ll know right away, like the one above, but others are going to take some more guess. Most of the answers are here if you give up. Gallery starts below:

Brad Pitt as the Mad Man

Adepero Oduye as the Outlaw

Gary Oldman as the Menacing Dummy

George Clooney as the Tyrant

Glenn Close as The Vamp

Jean Dujardina as the Hothead

Jessica Chastain as the Fire Starter

Kirsten Dunst as the Siren

Mia Wasikowska as the Home Wrecker

Michael Shannon as the Tycoon

Ryan Gosling as the Invisible Man

Viola Davis as the Vengeful Caretaker



  • Patty

    Ugh, Rooney Mara is just such an absolute beauty. Next time you do a sexy pic compilation, please consider her.

  • some guy

    really gosling as the invisible man? hilarious cause that could be anyone, or no one at all, just comedy

  • Lee

    Brad Pitt looks like Kramer.

  • BobaFett

    MMM…I love me some Viola Davis.

  • Joe

    Is that Brad Pitt as Henry Spencer from “Eraserhead”? There’s even a video of it: http://io9.com/5866119/watch-brad-pitt-transform-into-david-lynchs-eraserhead