Isla Fisher used to get mistaken for Amy Adams all the time — even by celebrities! Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic; Karwai Tang/Getty. The pandemic has helped Isla Fisher in at least one way. The famous redhead, 45, used to get mistaken for fellow actress — and redhead — Amy Adams, 46, all the time.
Having red hair and blue eyes is the rarest hair/eye color combination possible. The odds of a person having both of those recessive traits is around 0.17%. Instead, most redheads have brown, hazel or green eyes, according to Medical Daily.
According to an article by evolutionary biology professor Mark Elgar, PhD, of the University of Melbourne, blue-eyed redheads are the absolute rarest, with 0.17% of the population having that combination of hair and eye color. So if that describes you, you're most likely one in a million—or more!
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Why did Amy Adams dye her hair red?
Having naturally red hair is very rare, which is why some celebs choose to go red to stand out. Amy Adams has said that dyeing her hair red helped her stand out from all the blondes in Hollywood.
Amy Adams has stuck to long red locks for as long as she's been a household name. Truth be told, Amy was a blonde for most of her pre-A-list life! She looks just as good both ways, though, no?
Aniston is known for her bright blue eyes, but did you know that many people think that this is not her natural eye colour? It is rumoured that she has such blue eyes because she wears coloured contact lenses.
The highest concentration of people with green eyes is found in Ireland, Scotland, and northern Europe. In fact, in Ireland and Scotland, more than three-fourths of the population has blue or green eyes – 86 percent! Many factors go into having green eyes.
While most of her fans believed Adams gained weight for some of her film roles, that wasn't always the case. Instead, she altered her appearance for movies that needed it, using prosthetic parts.
Darren Le Gallo is a proud dad on his daughter's 13th birthday. The visual artist, 48, shared a rare photo of his and Amy Adams's daughter, Aviana, cuddling her dog as she celebrates her 13th birthday.
Adams has since starred in such popular films as Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, Julie & Julia and Man of Steel, among many others. She has received several Academy Award nominations and earned Golden Globes for her performances in American Hustle, Big Eyes and the miniseries Sharp Objects.
Some are natural redheads like Madelaine Petsch, Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas-Howard, and some... not-so-natural. For example, did you know that many of your favourite and most iconic celebrity redheads, like Emma Stone, Tayra Banks, Sophie Turner and Christina Hendricks, are all actually naturally blonde?
And when you meet a red head with blue eyes, you are looking at the rarest colour combination of all for human beings. Around 17 per cent of people have blue eyes, and when combined with 1-2 per cent having red hair, the odds of having both traits are around 0.17 per cent.
TIL The rarest natural hair color in the world is red, with only 1-2% of the world population having natural red hair. Second is blond, with 3%, then brown/brunette, with 11%, and finally black with… You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
