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Actors/Actresses with a character that consume their careers.

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  • #32
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Zen65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭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).


  • #36
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭Duff


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


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  • #37
    snausages
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭snausages


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


  • #38
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Angela Lansbury


  • #39
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Johnny Depp, playing the same character in every film.

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


  • #40
    DUBACC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭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!!


  • #41
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.


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  • #42
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #43
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #44
    snausages
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #46
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Burky126
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    Mr T as...Mr T.

    Jack McBrayer as Kenneth from 30 Rock.

    Bruce Willis as John McClane

    Sigourney Weaver as Ripley


  • #48
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭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.


  • #49
    spankysue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭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


  • #50
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    G.K.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    the guy who played Wedge Antilles


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  • #52
    GT_TDI_150
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    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    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.

    he reminds me of Brian Clough everytime I see him as thats who he played in "the damned United" ( i think it was called)


  • #53
    Maire2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Maire2009


    Rowan Atkinson could have fit into this with Mr.Bean but Blackadder is so genius I don't know what to associate him with :o


  • #54
    Kinzig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Kinzig


    Martin Clunes as Doc Martin...


  • #55
    Ace Attorney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Ace Attorney


    Bryan Cranston to me will always be Hal from Malcolm in the Middle to me instead of walter white from breaking bad


  • #56
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    I can't help but always call Bryan Cranston Hal as well.


  • #57
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Despite rocking up in Coronation Street, Craig Charles will always be Lister from Red Dwarf for me


  • #58
    tommy2bad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,253 ✭✭✭tommy2bad


    Jack Palance, never got past Jack Wilson the villain he played in Shane.
    Even as far as reprising the role for City Slickers.
    Palance was one of the best actors of his time so it shows how sometimes it's because the character is so great rather than that the actor is limited.


  • #59
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Thatdoesnt looksafe tome AHHHHHHH wrote: »
    Bryan Cranston to me will always be Hal from Malcolm in the Middle to me instead of walter white from breaking bad
    Pang wrote: »
    I can't help but always call Bryan Cranston Hal as well.

    Well, the opening scene of breaking bad when he was running around trantically outside in a pair of white y-fronts waving his hands didnt really help...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #60
    Caonima
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    Bill Murray IS Dr Peter Venkman


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  • #61
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭cml387


    Caonima wrote: »
    Bill Murray IS Dr Peter Venkman
    Bill Murray IS Dr Peter Venkman


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