Actors who seem to play themselves in movies?

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Are there any actors who always seem to play themselves in movies? I don't necessarily mean that they aren't talented just that for one reason or another its hard to disassociate the actor from the role?

I have a hard time seeing George Clooney as anyone besides GC.

Jennifer Coolidge. Plays similar characters and seems just like them in interviews

Timothee Chalamet always seems to be Timothee Chalamet to me

I feel a bit like that with Olivia Coleman even though she’s highly rated.

Yes I was thinking this when I heard an interview with her after she won an award!

Bill Nighy.

Hugh Grant, Anne Hathaway and Kiera Knightley. Always play Hugh Grant, Anne Hathaway and Kiera Knightley.

Jason Statham definitely always just plays every character as though they are the same, so I assume he just plays them all as himself

Olivia Colman is definitely not in this bracket. She's very nuanced in what she does.

Nicholas Cage however ...

Jeff Goldblum.

Unpopular opinion but Olivia Colman is always Olivia Colman in anything

Clint Eastwood, Michael Cain, Nicholas cage

Martin freeman
Emma Watson
Keanu reeves (I luffs him though)

yep him and vinnie jones

Ray Winstone is Ray Winstone- always

Michael Caine
Sylvester Stallone
George Clooney
Jennifer Coolidge (spotted more recently)
Daniel Craig
Pierce Brosnan
Olivia Colman
Eddie Redmayne

Came here to say this

I also have to add Jack Nicholson and also Al Pacino once he really got started on the scenery chewing. He was so incredible in Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather and Godfather 2 before he turned into a parody of himself. It's painful to remember how good he can be.

Gerard Butler. Same man dumped in different situations and ages

Aniston.

Yy to Jack Nicholson
Tom Cruise
Julia Roberts

Jim Carrey. Sometimes he’s Jim Carrey pretending to be someone else (eg the Grinch, Lemony Snicket’s Count Olaf and then the various people CO pretends to be) but he’s still Jim Carrey to me

Paul Rudd

Sean Bean.

I agree apart from when she played Queen Anne.

Ryan Reynolds (who I love) only seems to have one character.