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Star Who've Played Religious Figures

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11:18 AM PST, February 11, 2013

As the world reacts to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, we count down our top 10 favorite actors to take on religious roles. From Philip Seymour Hoffman's critically acclaimed part as Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt to Jessica Lange's award-winning role as Sister Jude Martin in American Horror Story: Asylum, check some of the more notable actors who've taken to the cloth.

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Religious Casting Call

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As the world reacts to Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, we count down our top 10 favorite actors to take on religious roles. From Philip Seymour Hoffman's critically acclaimed part as Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt to Jessica Lange's award-winning role as Sister Jude Martin in American Horror Story: Asylum, check some of the more notable actors who've taken to the cloth.

Sally Field

Sally Field stars as Sister Bertrille in the 1967-70 comedy The Flying Nun about, you guessed it, the misadventures of a nun who can fly.

Ewan McGregor

In the 2009 sequel Angels & Demons, Ewan McGregor stars alongside Tom Hanks as Camerlengo Patrick McKenna.

Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins plays one angry priest, Father Lucas Trevant, in the 2011 horror flick The Rite.

Leslie Nielsen

In the 1996 comedy Spy Hard, Dick Steele, a.k.a. Agent WD-40 (Leslie Nielsen), becomes an undercover nun.

Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews role as the former nun Maria in the 1965 classic The Sound of Music is probably her most famous role yet.

Lindsay Lohan

In the 2010 movie Machete, Lindsay Lohan slips into a nun's costume for her role as April.

Audrey Hepburn

In the 1959 film The Nun's Story, Hepburn plays Gabrielle van der Mal, a stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman takes on the role of the shady Father Brendan Flynn in the 2008 movie Doubt.

Whoopi Goldberg

In the 1992 and 1993 Sister Act films, Whoopi Goldberg takes on the role of the undercover lovable nun Deloris Van Cartier, a.k.a. Sister Mary Clarence.

Jessica Lange

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Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange) loses her mind thanks to her religious friends in American Horror Story: Asylum.

Joseph Fiennes

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Joseph Fiennes plays the hypocritical Monsignor Timothy Howard in American Horror Story: Asylum who is obsessed with gaining a position in the Catholic church in Rome.