It’s not uncommon for celebrities to be mistaken for completely different stars – whether it’s Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman getting mixed up, or fans confusing Claudia Winkleman and Davina McCall.

However, when Friends star Lisa Kudrow was mistaken for a very famous singer, she struggled to see the resemblance.

The 62-year-old revealed in a recent interview that a fan approached her during the height of her Friends fame, thinking she was Dionne Warwick – the Grammy Award-winning “Walk On By” singer who is now 85.

When asked byThe Hollywood Reporter to recall the “most bizarre” fan interaction she’s ever had, she told the Comedy Actresses roundtable: “I have my favourite.

“It was during Friends, and I was going to Jerry’s Deli or something and the hostess had an accent. She was from somewhere in Eastern Europe and just went [whispering], ‘I know who you are.’

“I went, ‘Aw, yeah.’ And she said, ‘You are Dionne Warwick.’ I just went, ‘No, I’m not. I am not.’”

Surrounded by her surprised fellow panellists – Ashley Padilla, Quinta Brunson, Rachel Sennott, Hannah Einbinder and Keke Palmer – Kudrow continued: “I kind of felt this, ‘She doesn’t know who I am?’ And then it was, wait … Dionne Warwick?

“I said, ‘She’s a legendary singer!’ I just thought it was the funniest thing ever.”

Warwick is best known for her 1966 track “Alfie” and her 1971 single “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again”, which won her a Grammy for Best Contemporary Vocal Performance that year.

Kudrow played Phoebe Buffay on hit sitcom Friends throughout its entire 10-year run, originating the role in 1994. She went on to star in cult comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and mockumentary The Comeback, which returned for a third series earlier this year.

She recently claimed that “nobody cared” about her while she was on Friends, telling The Independent in April: “There were certain parts of [my talent agency] that just referred to me as ‘the sixth Friend.’”

When asked about that comment by THR, Kudrow spoke further on it, saying: “That was what the talk among the business folk was. But I really didn’t care because it didn’t matter.

“I did a movie right after the first season, an Albert Brooks movie. Yay! And then the next season, I did two movies: Romy and Michele’sHigh School Reunion and Clockwatchers. I just thought it doesn’t matter, does it, what anyone thinks? I have to do what I do.”

In April, she also revealed that the women within the show’s cast faced “intense” scrutiny from its mostly male writers’ room, saying that there was “mean stuff going on behind the scenes”.

“Don’t forget we were recording in front of a live audience of 400, and if you messed up one of these writers’ lines or it didn’t get the perfect response, they could be like, ‘Can’t the bitch f***ing read? She’s not even trying. She f***ed up my line,’” she told The Times.