Celebrities Who Dressed Up As Other Celebrities For Halloween

Now that’s how you do a couple’s costume. In 2018 Chrissy Teigen dressed up as Queen Elizabeth in her usual sensible coat-shoes-handbag combo, while her husband John Legend wore a replica of Prince Philip’s military uniform. They planned to go out and show the costumes off, but then they got tired and stayed at home. Been there.

Marilyn Monroe is another very popular choice for Halloween costumes, especially her bright-pink dress from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Katie Couric wore this for a 2005 Halloween episode of Today, and it was inspired by her daughter, who was a big Marilyn fan. It’s still one of Couric’s favorite costumes today.

Katy Perry is a big Freddie Mercury fan. She loves him so much that she transformed into him for Halloween 2008 — which also happened to be her 24th birthday. Three years later, in 2011, she recorded a video tribute to Mercury and said, “Without you, I wouldn’t be making music or doing what I do, because your lyrics inspired me as a 15-year-old girl. I heard ‘Killer Queen,’ and I wanted to be a killer queen!”

Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar already had the blonde hair, so it’s easy to see why she decided to dress up as one of the music world’s most famous blondes. For Halloween in 2013 she tweeted out a picture of herself as the Queen of Pop, and her co-star Emma Caulfield responded with, “Ummm… hot much??!”

Cindy Crawford’s daughter, Kaia Gerber, always has a front-row seat at the big Halloween party at Casamigos in LA. Why? Her dad co-owns the brand that runs it! In 2018 the whole Crawford-Gerber clan went to the party as ’80s rock stars, and Kaia arguably upstaged them all with her Joan Jett costume.

In 2010 Lisa Rinna got all dolled up as TV icon Lucille Ball and posed with her husband Harry Hamlin. Three years later Hamlin proudly told Fox 411, “I see clips from The Lucy Show, and I’m totally reminded of Lisa. From time to time I find myself saying, ‘You’ve got some ’splaining to do!’”

Dolly Parton has such an iconic look that she’s a great celeb to dress up as at Halloween. Ellie Goulding went as her for a Halloween fundraiser in October 2017, and then a year later Parton herself included the singer on a Twitter compilation of her “favorite lookalikes.” Goulding was so thrilled that she tweeted back, “Omg I love you.”

In 2019, only three years after the death of music legend David Bowie, entertainment superstar Janelle Monae paid tribute to him with a Halloween costume. She posted the images on Instagram and captioned them with one of Bowie’s most famous lyrics, “Oh man, wonder if he’ll ever know/He’s in the best selling show.”

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka are undoubtedly the kings of Halloween. Over the years they’ve delighted their fans with endless creative and wacky Halloween ensembles, often getting their kids involved for family costume photoshoots as well. But they really outdid themselves in 2019 when they dressed as the Olsen twins.

Jason Momoa went all out with his Halloween costume in 2019. He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show dressed from head to toe as Elvis Presley. And he was very much in character too! He danced through the crowd using Elvis’s trademark gyrating moves and handed out leis to the audience.

Everyone remembers those iconic denim outfits Justin and Britney wore while they were still a couple. They were completely over the top and outrageous — so, perfect for Halloween, then. Jonathan Barbara and Devon Windsor wore the outfits and channeled the ’00s stars at the V Magazine Halloween Party in 2018.

When Winnie Harlow dressed as RuPaul for Heidi Klum’s Halloween party in 2018, it led to big things. The next year she was given a contract with MAC Cosmetics for a campaign that harked back to the days RuPaul was the face of the company. And don’t forget, she was a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12 as well.

Not many people can say that they get to dress up as their own dad for Halloween. However, one man who can is actor Scott Eastwood. When he attended the Hilarity for Charity’s Annual Variety Show in 2016, he took on his famous dad Clint’s iconic The Man With No Name look.

Actress Nina Dobrev chose one of the most instantly recognizable people in the music industry to go as for Halloween 2019. She dressed as singer Billie Eilish, complete with dyed-green hair, an orange Louis Vuitton sweater, and even black makeup smeared across her face. It was a very impressive effort.

Gabrielle Union got into a patterned sheer playsuit and headed to Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s party for Halloween 2019. Who was she dressed as? The iconic model and actress Grace Jones. She also posed in the costume for her Instagram followers and captioned the photo, “Amazing Grace. Happy Halloween kidzzzz.”

Kim Kardashian and her bestie Jonathan Cheban did Sonny and Cher in their 1973 Academy Awards getups for Halloween 2017. And they were so good at it Cher herself dropped in with congratulations. She wrote to Kim on her Twitter account, in typical Cher style, “You Look BEAUTIFUL Little Armenian Sister.”

Rita Ora won lots of praise for her Post Malone costume in 2018, and it’s not hard to see why. She arrived at the KISS Haunted House Party that night in a guise so accurate some might have thought it was Post Malone himself. And she even did her song “Let You Love Me” that night without stopping to change.

Fergie and Josh Duhamel absolutely won Halloween in 2015. They rocked up at the L.A. Casamigos party that year dressed as famous fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld… and his much loved white cat Choupette. Their cute couple costuming just gave us all another reason to be devastated when they split in 2019.

Before the days of Brangelina, Angelina Jolie was in an equally headline-grabbing relationship with somebody else. That was actor Billy Bob Thornton. And some people, including Maya Stepper and Mikkel Gregers Jensen, never forgot. They dressed as the former super-couple for Heidi Klum’s Halloween party in 2019. No word on if they were wearing lockets containing each other’s blood like the real thing, though.

Turns out that Kelly Osbourne is a big fan of Christina Hendricks. For the E! Fashion Police Halloween episode in 2013 she dressed up as the actress, even getting the designer of Hendricks’ Emmys dress to create an identical one for her. She wrote on Instagram, “I hope I did her justice. ps I had to wear 3 bras!”

Captain Marvel actor Brie Larson went as Britney Spears in her “Hit Me Baby One More Time” outfit for Halloween 2019. She had the pigtail, the white cropped top — everything. Larson’s clearly a big Halloween person, since she went out of her way to praise fans’ Captain Marvel outfits that year.

Jennifer Lopez’s costume for Halloween 2020 raised a few eyebrows. She dressed as Madonna… whom her ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez had been romantically linked with back in 2008. Not long afterwards, Andy Cohen asked her on his radio show, “Was that not odd given that Alex maybe dated Madonna for two seconds?” and she answered, “It wasn’t weird at all. He loved it.” Though six months later the couple announced their split.

Victoria Justice absolutely loves the late singing superstar Amy Winehouse. She wrote on Instagram in July 2015, “Saw Amy last night and it is a must see! Forever a fan. Her talent as a singer/songwriter will continue to inspire.” She took that inspiration and used it for her Halloween costume that year, dressing as a perfect Winehouse.

Harry Styles was a very accurate Elton John indeed at the 2018 Casamigos Halloween party. The internet went wild and eventually word got back to the man himself. The real Elton John, who’s served as a mentor figure to Harry in the past, posted some pics of the party and captioned them, “Now that’s what I call a Halloween costume.”

What’s better than going as a celebrity horror icon for Halloween? Going as a celebrity horror icon who just so happens to be your own mother. When she attended the costume party for her 2021 movie Halloween Kills Jamie Lee Curtis went dressed as her late mom, Psycho star Janet Leigh. And she wrote on Instagram, “Honoring my mother in ALL her gory… I meant glory!”

TV personality Martha Stewart transformed herself into the ultimate blonde bombshell for Halloween 2016, even remembering to include Marilyn’s famous beauty spot on her face. She snapped a pic for Instagram to credit the make-up artists and wrote, “Towards the end of the evening and my Marilyn look still looked good.”

The 2018 Casamigos Halloween party was absolutely star-studded. Among the guests were George Clooney, Jenna Dewan, Harry Styles, and of course, David Bowie and Debbie Harry in their most iconic onstage looks. Actually, those last two were Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber, pulling off the rock-star costumes impressively.

Some people like their Halloween costumes with a little bite to them, and clearly Nina Dobrev is one of these. In 2016 Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte got himself into a scandal in Rio, so for Halloween that year Nina dressed as him and got a friend to dress as his fellow Olympian Jimmy Feigen. She captioned the post, “Had a blast in Rio. Oh, and we also won some Gold Medals.”

The Kardashians seem to really love Halloween. In 2018 all the sisters dressed up as Victoria’s Secret Angels at first, but then Kourtney got changed to dress up as Ariana Grande. It was an impression so spot-on that the real Ariana Grande dropped by Kourtney’s Instagram post and left her some heart emojis.

Zendaya dressed up as another mononymous star at the 2013 Keep A Child Alive’s 20th Annual Dream Halloween party. She was R&B singer Aaliyah — and believe it or not, a year later she was actually cast to play Aaliyah in a Lifetime biopic. But she dropped out of the project in the end.

The royal wedding was arguably the biggest celebrity event of 2011, so naturally it provided inspiration for many a Halloween costume. The whole Today show cast got into the action that year, with everyone going as a member of the royal family. It was Matt Lauer and Ann Curry who got the starring roles of William and Kate, and they nailed them.

Kevin Hart decided to troll his Jumanji co-star Dwayne Johnson for Halloween 2019 and dress up as a younger him. The Rock was all in on it, though, and the pair even filmed a jokey video together. Kevin explained his Dwayne costume to his buddy on camera, “All you gotta do is go to the costume store and say, ‘Make me look stupid.’”

Katy Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl performance created hundreds of memes largely thanks to her “left shark,” a.k.a. backup dancer Bryan Gaw. Suddenly Left Shark was a celeb in his own right! So that year, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan dressed as Katy Perry and her now-famous aquatic friend for their Halloween show.

Ellen did her 2019 Halloween show dressed as Cardi B — sorry, “Cardi E” — wearing the rapper’s costume from the movie Hustlers. Ellen quipped “This outfit has a whole lot going on from every angle,” and she wasn’t wrong. Not long afterwards, the real Cardi B popped up to admire the outfit and teach Ellen some twerking moves.

Reality TV star Rachel Lindsay always wanted to be a background dancer for Janet Jackson, but for Halloween 2020 she went one step further and dressed as Janet herself. She posed for Instagram pics in the same outfit her hero wore in the music video for “Love Will Never Do (Without You).”

Kylie went as Christina Aguilera in “Dirrty” mode for Halloween 2016. And she loved it so much, she was still talking about it four years later. In 2020 she said on her YouTube channel that she had been “so excited” to dress as Christina and that she "still get[s]Tweets about this, and [her] friends still talk about it.”

Miley Cyrus spawned a million Halloween costumes in 2013 thanks to her weird and thoroughly headline-grabbing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that year. Reality TV star Paris Hilton was among the many who got dressed up as Miley in her teddy bear leotard, sunglasses, and giant foam hand.

Apparently, Paris Hilton adores Madonna. “Ode to my idol since I was a little girl,” the DJ/socialite wrote on her Instagram in 2013. The costume is great and the sentiment’s sweet, but unfortunately it’s never seemed like Madonna actually had much time for her...

In 2013 Ellen DeGeneres transformed herself into Nicki Minaj and flaunted a bit of cleavage — and Minaj loved it. “I didn’t know Ellen could get any sexier,” she tweeted.

Chrissy Teigen is a beautiful woman, but she made herself completely unrecognizable for FABLife’s 2015 Halloween episode. She dressed up as Food Network TV personality Guy Fieri, and everyone agreed that the costume, and the gusto with which she went for it, was scarily good.

Jessica Biel epically trolled her husband for Halloween 2019, and it was magnificent. She went to the Casamigos Halloween party dressed as Justin himself… young, NSYNC-era Justin with that famous curly hair. The entire internet rightly thought the whole thing was hilarious. And what did Justin go as? A microphone, of course. And he isn’t the only star who’s dressed up as a microphone... Here’s what celebs wore when they weren’t trying to be other celebs.

Katy Perry is known for sporting some pretty outrageous outfits on stage, so it’s not surprising that she comes up with some pretty inventive Halloween costumes. In 2015, for example, she decided to dress as a “dropped mic” — and she even made a little video to the song “Drop It Like It’s Hot.”

Who would have thought there could ever be such a thing as a sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? But somehow, Rihanna pulled it off for Halloween 2014. She painted herself green, donned a shell, and made a ninja entrance to a friend’s party.

Beyoncé is known throughout the world as Queen Bey, so who better to dress up as than a comic book queen? In 2015 the singer morphed into X-Men’s Storm, one-time Queen of Wakanda in the Marvel universe.

Neil Patrick Harris and his family love Halloween. Every year he, his husband David Burtka, and their kids all coordinate with matching costumes. In 2015, however, the foursome totally outdid themselves by dressing up as various Star Wars characters. Harris was Obi-Wan, Burtka was Han, and their twins were, of course, Luke and Leia.

Sandy from Grease (in “We Go Together” mode) is a popular Halloween costume, but possibly no one’s pulled it off quite as well as model Gigi Hadid. While attending Heidi Klum’s Halloween party in 2015, she looked like a dead ringer for a younger Olivia Newton-John.

“Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a PEGACORN,” Taylor Swift wrote on her Instagram for Halloween 2014, showing off her magnificently weird horned costume. Incidentally, Swift didn’t invent the Pegacorn; it’s a cross between a unicorn and a Pegasus!

Muscle-man Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is quite the fan of fictional muscle-man Popeye. So he decided to dress up as him for Halloween 2015, even though the outfit didn’t quite fit Johnson’s massive frame. “Never buy a costume that says ‘One size fits most,’” he captioned this Instagram snap.

Heidi Klum is the undisputed queen of Halloween. Every year she throws a Halloween party and utterly transforms herself… although she is helped out by an army of makeup artists. This didn’t make her 2013 decision to turn up as an older version of herself any less awesome, though.

For Heidi Klum’s 2015 Halloween party, singer Ashanti painted herself blue, put on a white dress and went as Smurfette. Or, as she put it on Instagram, a “hip-hop Smurfette,” hence the gold chain. Either way, it was quite an impressive transformation.

You might not expect it from her, but Kourtney Kardashian really likes comic book superheroes. For 2012’s Halloween, for example, she dressed as Batman. And three years later, she stepped out as a golden Wonder Woman, while her three kids also donned super-cute superhero ensembles.

In 2014 Liv Tyler spent Halloween dressed as a clever visual pun. She was expecting a second child — her first with new boyfriend Dave Gardner — and so she dressed as a literal “bun in the oven.” And judging by the reaction of the child behind her, it made some waves.

Dressing up as a skeleton for Halloween doesn’t seem particularly creative or noteworthy, but in 2014 Kim Kardashian did it the Kardashian way and sexed it up with body paint over a black bodysuit. Love her or hate her, you can’t deny that she knows how to make an entrance.

Some Halloween costumes are so well done that they’re virtually works of art. Take British X Factor winner Leona Lewis, for example. She got all dressed up as mythological monster Medusa for a Halloween party in 2015. And the costume, which featured a headpiece of golden snakes and some intricate makeup, was simply stunning.

Iggy Azalea actually bore an uncanny resemblance to 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil at the VEVO Halloween showcase in 2013. And it wasn’t even the wig that did it; it was the pursed-lip death stare. Plus, she actually brought along a real Dalmatian — a speckled pooch called Lucky!

In 2014 supermodels Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne proved they were huge nerds when they dressed up as video game characters Mario and Luigi for Adam Lambert’s Halloween party. Kendall even donned a little mustache! We’re here for it.

An ex-supermodel dressing up as the sexiest animated character ever? That’s a no-brainer, really. But Heidi Klum didn’t just throw on a red dress and wig to portray Jessica Rabbit in 2015; she had her face covered in prosthetics to really make her look like a cartoon. Now that’s dedication.

Glee star Naya Rivera dressed up as beloved children’s video game character Carmen Sandiego for 2013’s Halloween festivities. And she rocked it. Referring to Sandiego, the actress wrote on her Instagram pic, “She’s sexy AND educational! Just doing my part to teach the kids geography.”

Costumes of this iconic Batman villain are always popular at Halloween. But when F1 driver Lewis Hamilton dressed up as the Heath Ledger version of the character for Heidi Klum’s annual spooky bash in 2016, he made it look like no one had ever done it before.

When Pokémon made a massive comeback in 2016, Ariana Grande decided to capitalize on it by dressing as cute character Eevee for Halloween. Meanwhile, then-boyfriend Mac Miller donned a Pikachu onesie, albeit rather glumly. Perhaps he was worried about his girlfriend getting too much male attention with her foxy look.

World-famous redhead Ed Sheeran decided to spend his 2012 Halloween dressed as another equally revered redhead. Yes, the singer turned himself into murderous doll Chucky from the Child’s Play films, although he ended up looking more cute than killer. “Wanna play?” he wrote on Instagram, referring to Chucky’s catchphrase.

Model and businesswoman Klum adores Halloween like no other celeb, and she used to rope her then-husband Seal into the hijinks, too. In 2011, for instance, they both dressed up expertly as apes and indulged in a bit of monkeying around.

While attending Heidi Klum’s lavish 16th Annual Halloween Party in 2015, Emily Ratajowski almost stole the show from her host by donning yellow body paint and going as Marge Simpson. Not only that, but a sexy Marge Simpson. The actress/model even got her date to go as Homer as well. D’oh!

Why not teach some history in addition to having fun at Halloween? In 2014 country singer Miranda Lambert dressed up as Rosie the Riveter from the iconic World War II “We Can Do It” poster, even nailing the backdrop perfectly.

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry should also have won a gong for this suitably spooky glow-in-the-dark skeleton transformation. She even brought her daughter along for the ride! Berry did have some help, though: professional makeup artists and stylists created the pair’s look for 2016’s Halloween.

Reality show Toddlers & Tiaras is a guilty pleasure for many, possibly including Black Eyed Peas frontwoman Fergie. In 2011, while attending Heidi Klum’s 12th Annual Halloween Party, she went all out as a stereotypical beauty pageant princess.