Actors/Actresses with a character that consume their careers.

Lando Griffin

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Any more that spring to mind?

Davei141

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will forever be known as Mulder & Scully.

Sinfonia

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Anymore that spring to mind?

Anyone in a long-running TV show is gonna find it hard to break away from that character.
Everyone in Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, etc.

Sinfonia

Davei141 wrote: »

David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson will forever be known as Mulder and Scully.

To be honest I think of David Duchovny as Hank Moody more quickly, because I was never really into The X Files.

IvySlayer

Neil Flynn - Janitor

King Krib

Maybe an expection to the rule..but Friends star Matthew Perry's new show Go On is quite good. He plays a fairly strong character in it, the last name that would come to mind is Chandler Bing.
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padd b1975

Miley.

King Krib

padd b1975 wrote: »

Miley.

Miley was hugely known in theatre circles more as Mick Lally than Miley.. but now that you say it " is there anythin stirring?"

DEFTLEFTHAND

Looking back now and I know it preceded Only Fools but when I see a young David Jason playing a shopboy in Open All Hours I think Del Boy. Even still when he did the voice for Duckla in the mid 90s, a staple of my childhood. 'That's Del' as my Dad would say when we watched the VHS together.

KingOfFairview

Mark Hamill springs to mind.

Lando Griffin

Sinfonia wrote: »

Anyone in a long-running TV show is gonna find it hard to break away from that character.
Everyone in Friends, Frasier, Seinfeld, etc.

I actually think David Jason achieved it in A Touch of Frost.

Orion

Spock

folamh

John C McGintley and Zach Braff (Scrubs)

JustAThought

Jennifer Akinson ( from friends -ALWAYS the same)

Nicholas Cage ( what part)

Sadly, for the past ten years the previously great Robert De Niro

Sunnyisland

Not actually yet but Nidge will always be nidge love/hate.

Also for me sylvester stallone will always be rocky,
Sean connery will always be james bond.

Katgurl

Sharon stone as the damaged homicidal temptress sans underwear in Basic Instinct.

Stallone will always be Rocky to me.

Hilary Swank playing a boy (is it Boys Don't Cry?)

Al Pacino playing Michael Corleone.

I think it's testament to what amazing actors Kate & Leo are that they managed to shake off their Titanic characters.

Charleze Theron in Monster.

Lando Griffin

Steve Coogan will always be Alan Partridge no matter what he does.
But that fine by me.

sioda

Almost all actors on star trek bar Patrick Stewart her was born to play professor Xavier. Have a feeling Jim Parsons will always be Sheldon

Ted_YNWA

sioda wrote: »

Have a feeling Jim Parsons will always be Sheldon

Was just thinking that.

Bazinga

GT_TDI_150

Malcolm (in the middle),

Ur man, the fireman in Corrie - (he's the voice over guy on 'how it's made' and similar) when OH is watching Corrie I constantly envisage some poor sod putting fig-rolls in a box somewhere.

Ted_YNWA

GT_TDI_150 wrote: »

Malcolm (in the middle),

Ur man, the fireman in Corrie - (he's the voice over guy on 'how it's made' and similar) when OH is watching Corrie I constantly envisage some poor sod putting fig-rolls in a box somewhere.

Never knew that ....

Mike Myers will always be known as Austin Powers.

Not G.R

realies wrote: »

Sean connery will always be james bond.

Will always be Indanna Jones' dad for me.

The Harry Potter kids will always be just that.
Michael J Fox will always be Marty.

KingOfFairview

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Never knew that ....

Mike Myers will always be known as Austin Powers.

Nope, also as Wayne

Zen65

Phil Silvers was always Sgt Bilko

Lassie. . . that poor bitch was always given the same role over and over ("roll over . . good girl")

William Shatner . . always Captain Kirk (even when he was TJ Hooker I knew he was Captain Kirk)

Roseanne Barr . . always Roseanne Barr (even when she was Roseanne Arnold)

Sarah Michelle Gellar . . . always Buffy (and I never watched a single episode of Buffy)

Derek Jacobi . . . always I Claudius

Higel Hawthorne . . . always Sir Humphrey Appleby

Yamanoto

Early in his career, Harry H. Corbett was considered one of the finest young actors in Britain, with a very bright future ahead of him.

A 12-year stint as Harold Steptoe brought fame & success, but the price paid was that audiences, critics & casting agents never took him seriously again.

Mental Mickey

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Just like the title suggests.

For example.
Nicholas Lyndhurst or Rodney. Somehow when he is acting in Good Night Sweetheart I kept thinking Rodney and went off the program.
Saw where he is to be in New Tricks and again thought to myself Rodney.

Another is Ardel O Hanlon when he was in My Hero, just kept thinking hey that's Fr Dougal.

Both parts were probably consumed by their previous successes in another show.

Any more that spring to mind?

David Jason as Del Boy

mrsdewinter

I think actors can have a life beyond their calling-card role.
For me, Gillian Anderson will always be the woman who wore boring trouser suits in The X Files - but in recent years, she's carved out a bit of a niche on this side of the Atlantic.
There was Tristram Shandy, I think she was Miss Havisham in some BBC version of Great Expectations, and then this year she was in that crime drama The Fall, which was made in the North.
Obviously, she'll never get a role as life-changing as Scully ever again, but she must be respected as an actor, or she simply wouldn't be working.

EGriff

Katgurl wrote: »

Charleze Theron in Monster.

What? She's almost unrecognisable in that.

Links234

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Mark Hamill springs to mind.

Yeah, he'll always be The Joker to me

diomed

Peter Falk.

Real Life

i always found it hard to watch James Gandolfini in any role other than Tony Soprano.

osarusan

Jason statham, Vin Diesel and those other identikit action hero wasters.

Not exactly a character, but a genre.

As for characters, that guy who made the sounds for Police Academy.

Buer

Davei141 wrote: »

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will forever be known as Mulder & Scully.

Duchovny has completely broken away from Mulder in the last 7 or 8 years with Californication. His character couldn't be more different.

Zen65

Real Life wrote: »

i always found it hard to watch James Gandolfini in any role other than Tony Soprano.

Sadly, he won't get the opportunity to surprise you in the future.

Buer

Katgurl wrote: »

Sharon stone as the damaged homicidal temptress sans underwear in Basic Instinct.

Stallone will always be Rocky to me.

Hilary Swank playing a boy (is it Boys Don't Cry?)

Al Pacino playing Michael Corleone.

I think it's testament to what amazing actors Kate & Leo are that they managed to shake off their Titanic characters.

Charleze Theron in Monster.

They've all had hugely successful careers in some great films outside of those roles. I think all of them have long broken clear of those films with the possible exception of Stallone (who has had massive success outside of Rocky also).

Duff

Sean William Scott is Stiffler in every movie he's in.

snausages

I reckon Jon Hamm will have a hard time escaping the Don Draper character.

The Backwards Man

Angela Lansbury

MJ23

Johnny Depp, playing the same character in every film.

Anything I see Kiefer Sutherland in, he'll always be Jack Bauer to me.

DUBACC

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Never knew that ....

Mike Myers will always be known as Austin Powers.

Not for me - he will always be remembered from Wayne's world. Schwiiiinnnggg!!

Kylo Ren

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.

seamus

Jack Gleeson who plays Joffrey in Game of Thrones. He's so young, but he's embodied the role so brilliantly that I think he'll find it hard to shake it for a number of years. There are rumours that he's planning on quitting acting altogether because he gets so much abuse on the street from morons. Which would be a fncking shame.

Buer

I think people are missing the difference between an actor/actress that has a role that consumes their careers (Ardal O'Hanlon) and an actor/actress that has a certain role the poster associates them with.

snausages

seamus wrote: »

Jack Gleeson who plays Joffrey in Game of Thrones. He's so young, but he's embodied the role so brilliantly that I think he'll find it hard to shake it for a number of years. There are rumours that he's planning on quitting acting altogether because he gets so much abuse on the street from morons. Which would be a fncking shame.

I heard he wants to quit to pursue a career in academia. That was a while back though.

castletownman

Leslie Mann. ALWAYS plays an annoying mother of a couple of equally annoying young kids in every ****e rom-com released in the last few years

wmpdd3

Everytime I see the guy who played Tony Blair in the queen I still think its him, he just can't escape it.

Pity beside he has done some great drama.

Burky126

Mr T as...Mr T.

Jack McBrayer as Kenneth from 30 Rock.

Bruce Willis as John McClane

Sigourney Weaver as Ripley

Caonima

Buer wrote: »

Duchovny has completely broken away from Mulder in the last 7 or 8 years with Californication. His character couldn't be more different.

Agreed. Hank Moody is Duchovny's completely.

spankysue

Scott Bakula will always be Dr Sam Beckett to me.

Same goes for the cast of any Star Trek series with the exception of Enterprise of course, 'cause Sam Beckett was the captain on Enterprise

Sinfonia

castletownman wrote: »

Leslie Mann. ALWAYS plays an annoying mother of a couple of equally annoying young kids in every ****e rom-com released in the last few years

Those are her kids with Judd Apatow, hence the prevalence!
She's also a good actress and hot; I feel that's worth mentioning.

G.K.

the guy who played Wedge Antilles