Kate Middleton TikTok Lookalike Throws Hat in the Ring For 'The Crown' Role

A TikTok creator from Queensland, Australia, has responded to a worldwide casting call looking for an actress to play Kate Middleton in the final season of Netflix's hit show The Crown, after going viral for her uncanny resemblance to the royal.

Brittany Dixon was prompted to make the application after viewers of her TikTok videos flooded her comments section telling her about the casting call and her similarities to Kate.

"I originally created my TikTok for my art so that's what I'm used to posting on there. I was just posting videos to my painting community when I started getting loads of Kate Middleton comments," Dixon told Newsweek, adding, "It's all been very, very unexpected."

"I have been hearing that I look somewhat like Kate for a few years now, I didn't think anything of it beyond, obviously taking it as a lovely compliment but that's why it's been so unexpected that I would have that many people telling me that I look like her. It is bizarre."

"It started with someone replying to one of my videos actually saying that 'Netflix are doing an open casting call for Kate, you should apply,'" she told Newsweek. "I received so many comments saying 'oh my gosh you look like her' and it really went on like that. I just ended up thinking 'why not?'"

In a video posted to her TikTok account, Dixon recounts how she sent the casting agents a photograph and a 60-second video discussing her love of art as part of the application. The duchess herself was an art history major at the time she met Prince William.

Netflix issued a worldwide casting call to find a young actress to play an 18-year-old Kate in the highly anticipated final season of The Crown last month which followed a similar call for actors to play Prince William and Prince Harry.

Casting associate Kate Bone posted the call to Twitter writing: "Casting Call for KATE MIDDLETON (18yrs). Please pass the word to any budding young actors! See Notice attached. Thanks as always..."

The notice read that casting agents for The Crown are looking for "an exceptional young actress to play Kate Middleton in the next series. This is a good role in this award-winning drama and we are looking for a strong physical resemblance."

Dixon says that playing the future queen onscreen would be an "honor" if not a little "daunting."

"Potentially playing the future queen can be a bit daunting when you put it like that but it would be an absolute honor, of course, and The Crown is such a widely adored show, it would be an opportunity of a lifetime,'' she explained.

"I know that because it's such a major show that they're going to find the perfect person to play Kate no matter what, so I'm really excited to see how it all unfolds and see what happens."

The casting call closes on May 20 with Netflix expected to have a flood of applicants to play such a prominent personality on the hit show.

The Crown chronicles the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and her family life starting in the 1950s. It is expected to end in the early 2000s. The show was commissioned for six seasons with a revolving cast changing after every two.

Claire Foy played the queen in the first two installments followed by Oscar winner Olivia Colman. For seasons five and six, British actress Imelda Staunton will step into the monarch's comfortable shoes.

While the interpretation of the queen herself has been widely praised in The Crown, there have been some controversies surrounding its depiction of other members of the royal family, namely Princess Diana.

Introduced in season four of the show, Emma Corrin played Diana during the early years of her marriage to Prince Charles. Much of the season focussed on the relationship between Charles and Diana, also showing the late princess's battle with an eating disorder on screen.

Critics argued at the time of the season's release that the show should carry a disclaimer notifying viewers that the content they are watching is not representative of historical fact.

Netflix fought back against this view which was supported by the then-U.K. secretary for digital, media, culture and sport, Oliver Dowden. Netflix released a statement which read:

"We have always presented The Crown as a drama, and we have every confidence our members understand it's a work of fiction that's broadly based on historical events. As a result, we have no plans—and see no need—to add a disclaimer."

It is expected that Kate will have a minor role in the final season. At the age of 18 as specified in the casting notice, she was of university age. This is the time period when she was first introduced to William. The couple met at St. Andrews University in Scotland in 2001 and dated for ten years before marrying in 2011.