Who She Is: Donna Maxon is a human resources professional specializing in Training and Development. She's co-authored two training programs books, Professional Development and One Step Up.

Her Inspiration: "Bette Middler! I am a dead ringer for the Divine Miss M, which has been a very divine thing for me," Maxon said. Only she wasn't born with Midler's voice. Now Maxon studies with a voice coach every week, rehearses often and chooses her material carefully. "My ability to sing professionally is proof that persistence and desire are the key to success."

Who She Is: Bettina Williams works as an official court reporter for a District Court. 

Her Inspiration: Whoopi Goldberg. Williams went so far as shaving her eyebrows to impersonate her. Why Whoopi? "Don't know why," she said. "Maybe adopted by other family at birth. Naw... I'm just blessed."

Who She Is: Suzanne Goulet worked as a professional dancer, traveling the world to perform in big production shows.

Her Inspiration: Liza Minnelli. Goulet took eight years of vocal training in New York City to sing like her. "I love singing her Broadway style songs, recreating her dance steps and performing with the same high energy as she does," she said.

Who She Is: Denise Bella Vlasis studied dance and theater in college, and auditioned daily to find work. She says she's still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up.

Her Inspiration: Madonna. "While searching for work as an actress, I found agents asking me to lose the Madonna look," she said. "There came a point where I had to ask myself, 'Do I keep working this angle of my similar look to Madonna to keep working so much, or do I try to find my own look and see if I can get acting roles?" She's been impersonating Madonna for 25 years. Her challenge? Constantly altering her image to keep up with the queen of reinventions.

Who She Is: Lisa Irion acted in theater, doing some regional TV commercials and voice over work. After the birth of her child, she was a stay-at-home wife and mother until he started school.

Her Inspiration: Cher. "I stumbled into doing this because I was able to talk and sing like her, and an Elvis impersonator encouraged me to try doing a tribute to Cher," Irion said. She loved that as an impersonator, she could satisfy her love of singing without the time commitment of a play, giving her more time with her family. "I chose Cher also because she is an older celebrity and I'm an older actress. I was 43 when I started and am now 51."

Who She Is: Jennifer Sullivan, who has two graduate degrees, was employed as a project manager in banking. Now she works part-time as a fitness specialist and health consultant. "I impersonate because it's fun, flexible (I have a 10-year-old little girl) and typically pays well," she said.

Her Inspiration: Jennifer Aniston. "I've always liked Jennifer Aniston's demeanor and personality," she said. "I have respect for her integrity. She is a spokesperson for cancer organizations. I am a two-time cancer survivor: primary breast cancer and metastasized brain cancer. I beat them both. I am currently in remission. The celebrity look-alike work has been a much needed financial resource funding numerous medical bills from my fight with cancer."

Who She Is: Charlene Rose raised fived sons and worked in outside sales selling semiconductors to aerospace companies.

Her Inspiration: She won first place in a Halloween Dolly Parton look-alike contest. "My aerospace buyers and engineers always called me 'Dolly' since I was naturally endowed at age 14 with 'Double D's', a natural beauty mark in the exact same spot as hers, blond hair, about the same height, and I was told I even sounded like her when I spoke. So when my friends insisted I enter the look-alike contest, I did." Now Rose travels the world as an impersonator, working with celebrities like Anthony Hopkins, and has even met Dolly Parton herself. 

"People driving next to me on the freeway would be looking at me as though they were thinking, 'I wonder what street corner she's working today?' But Dolly herself admits she fashioned herself after the town tramp!"

Who She Is: Sharon Daniels earned her teaching degree, but worked as a laboratory secretary at a hospital. "I became a wife and mother, and still worked after my first son was born and Grandma would babysit," she said. "But as I had two more sons, I was mainly a wife and stay-at-home mom."

Her Inspiration: Daniels has always had an ear for mimicking voices. "My middle son was in the Screen Actors Guild doing national commercials at age 4," she said. "His agent needed a Joan Rivers look and sound alike for a local TV station in Miami. She saw my resume and thought I could do an impersonation of Joan Rivers. I ran out and got a tape (cassette back in those days) and over night I started learning Joan's voice for my audition the next day. I was hired for the job as Joan Rivers at the audition!"

Now she impersonates several celebrities, from Sharon Osbourne to Fran Drescher to Katharine Hepburn. "Learning dialogue is a challenge," she said. "You can't just look and sound like a character. You have to be entertaining your audience, keeping them interested and making them laugh."

Who She Is: Vernetta Jenkins has worked as a talk/reality show television producer for the past 15+ years on shows from CBS's Big Brother to The Dr. Phil Show. Now she's pursuing acting full time.

Her Inspiration: Michelle Obama. "During the Obama campaign in 2007-2008, I started getting all kinds of calls from my family and friends in Chicago, along with being stopped by people here in Los Angeles saying how much they thought I looked like Michelle Obama, the then Senator's wife," she said. "Of course, being raised to be the 'proud individual' that my parents raised me to be, I didn't see it at first." 

"After the election, I began getting stopped all day, every day with some variation of that same phrase, 'Are you...' or 'You look just like...'" Now she frequently does sketch comedy work as Michelle Obama, from Jimmy Kimmel Live to Live with Regis & Kelly--and on her YouTube channel.