Actors who play the same role in various programs

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I wonder if they get bored playing the same character over and over again.

I mean two I can think of straight off my head is Melissa McCartney and Rebel Wilson

They always seem to play the fat, happy go lucky, funny girl.

If I was an actor I would love to play a mixture of characters. Personally I’d love to play a villain just so I could experience it

Hugh Grant was fabulous playing against type in Florence Foster Jenkins 🤩

John Hurt is always John Hurt

Nicola Walker

@Billandben444

Jason Statham. Wooden plank with a gun or fist.

First person I thought of.

Has James Nesbitt ever played a non Northern Irish person?

@CatServant2020

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Sean Connery, not only did he play the same character in every role but just played himself in every role 😀

I came on here to say that. He doesn't even do any accents!

Sean Connery was soooo over rated IMO

Maggie Smith is always Maggie Smith. Brilliant and very watchable, but always Maggie Smith.

Gina McKee. Fixed face, squinty puzzlement in everything.

About James Nesbitt, has he ever played someone not from NI. You could say the same about most English actors, have they ever played a non-English person?

@Germolenequeen

John Hurt is always John Hurt

The Elephant Man? The Naked Civil Servant? Ten Rillington Place?

Sean Bean actually has a really varied CV. As someone's already mentioned, there's his role as a priest in Broken, and he won an Emmy for his role in Jimmy McGovern's Accused. He was very different again in the film North Country.

Sean Connery was soooo over rated IMO
He did start as a milkman....

@midsomermurderess agreed, i'd rather he was always using his NI accent to play a good role than putting on a shit Scottish accent just because it's different.

I actually like James Nesbitt and think he's done some pretty good work from light-hearted comedy in Cold Feet to dramas like The Missing playing a tormented Father and Blood Lands where he plays the bad guy well despite the shitty ending (we won't include his recent stint on Line of Duty here 🤣)

Gina McKee. Fixed face, squinty puzzlement in everything.

I'm watching the pact on bbc1 and Gina McKee Is in it. And my god so squinty 🙂

Never mind it isn't Gina McKee it's another squinty puzzled woman

Bradley Whitford (Josh in the west wing)
Basically plays harassed white middle
Manager no matter what he is

There was that one show where he played a black senior manager and he wasn't nearly as good.

John Hurt is always John Hurt

Yeah, Winston Smith in 1984 is exactly the same character as Chancellor Sutter in V for Vendetta.

And I've been watching Bill Nighy in the David Hare spy trilogy on Netflix, starting with Page 8. Yes, he sounds, dresses and looks like Bill Nighy but there is a harder edge to him there than you might be used to seeing. He is a talented actor, not all bumbling, foppish mannerisms. Sometimes you only see what you want to see.

@SappysCurry

I thought he was good in Fargo though I get what you mean

I agree! Martin Freeman was good in that. As was Billy Bob Thornton. Really enjoyed that series.

Lily James. Doing my head in. She's pretty but so vacant in every role

Pretty Vacant..... now there's a great song

Lilly James is the new Kiera knightly give it a few years somebody will be the new Lilly James.

@Mrsjayy

Lilly James is the new Kiera knightly give it a few years somebody will be the new Lilly James.

Yes!

Frances MvDormand