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When you think of an actor, what character comes straight to your mind?

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Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 08:09

For me it’s Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I know she has the new Barbie movie coming out but I still see her Harley.

Anne Hathaway…would have to be Princess Mia from The Princess Diaries.

Ryan Reynolds…of course is Deadpool

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Yirk · 09/04/2023 13:23

Tom hanks and Tom Hardy in anything

StormiDayz · 09/04/2023 13:23

Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter.

TomatoSandwiches · 09/04/2023 13:26

Bruce Willis - John McLane
Kevin Costner - Robin of Loxley
Carrie Fisher - Leia
Signorney Weaver - Ellen Ripley

BigFatMummyOnTheCeiling · 09/04/2023 13:27

Ben Stiller- Zoolander
adam sandler - little Nicky
benedict cumberbatch - Sherlock
leo di cap - Romeo
keanu reeves - ted Theodore Logan

TomatoSandwiches · 09/04/2023 13:34

Harrison Ford is simultaneously Han Solo and Indiana Jones
Sean Conorey is Bond, James Bond
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Terminator
Sylvester Stalone is Rocky Balboa
Micheal Keaton is Beetlejuice & Batman for me personally.
Reese Witherspoon is Elle Woods
Jennifer Grey is Baby
Mia Farrow is Rosemary

WeAllHaveWings · 09/04/2023 13:34

MarshaBradyo · 09/04/2023 13:18

And one not yet mentioned

Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally

Tom Hanks - hard one The Castaway but others score highly
I haven’t watched Forrest Gump

I would see different characters for those two - might be an age thing!

Meg Ryan - working girl

Tom Hanks - turner and hooch

TomatoSandwiches · 09/04/2023 13:36

Meg Ryan wasn't in working girl that was Melanie Griffith.

lljkk · 09/04/2023 13:39

For me actor is definitely male. Actress is female. Yeah I know the language has changed, but the words are gendered for us oldies. I thought of Matt Damon in anything, or Alan Rickman as sheriff of Nottingham. For some reason Winona Ryder came to mind in Beetlejuice, when I tried to think Actress. Or jennifer Lawrence, HG.

Lionoso · 09/04/2023 13:42

Sean Bean will always be Sharpe and Boromir.

Robert Downey Jr - Ironman.

Sigourney Weaver - Ellen Ripley.

RenoDakota · 09/04/2023 13:46

Paul Rudd: Mike in Friends.
I know he has gone stratospheric in superhero things but I never watch that stuff.

Thatsshallot1967 · 09/04/2023 14:04

Watching Sally Bretton as Martha in Beyond Paradise I cannot get separate her from Lucy in Not Going Out. She's good in both and plays both very differently though. Also every time I see George Clooney...Doug Ross. Always had forever.

x2boys · 09/04/2023 14:22

RenoDakota · 09/04/2023 13:46

Paul Rudd: Mike in Friends.
I know he has gone stratospheric in superhero things but I never watch that stuff.

Yes I always think.of him.as Mike Hannigan,I think because I have watched friends over and over again it feels like he was in it much longer than he actually was!

scarecrow22 · 09/04/2023 14:28

Rufus Sewell

scarecrow22 · 09/04/2023 14:29

As John (something) in Man in a High Castle

Iftheresawilltheresaway · 09/04/2023 14:31

Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle

IAmTheWalrus85 · 09/04/2023 14:51

I can’t see Anthony Hopkins as anyone other than Hannibal Lecter. He terrifies me.

Lonelycrab · 09/04/2023 15:00

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi

and

Ian McKellen as Gandalf

Must be something to do with being old and having a grey beard Grin

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Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 15:26

RenoDakota · 09/04/2023 13:46

Paul Rudd: Mike in Friends.
I know he has gone stratospheric in superhero things but I never watch that stuff.

See, I grew up with him as Mike from friends but now I can only see him as Ant-Man

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RainBow725 · 09/04/2023 15:33

x2boys · 09/04/2023 11:15

Andrew Lincoln will always be Egg in this life to me.

Same here!

DannyZukosSmile · 09/04/2023 15:37

Margot Robbie isn't an actor though. She's an 'actress.'

burnoutbabe · 09/04/2023 15:38

Nitgel · 09/04/2023 09:10

christopher quinten Brian tilsley

Has he even been in anything else?

orangeflags · 09/04/2023 15:40

Michael Cain as Michael Cain

ExtremelyDetermined · 09/04/2023 15:46

I agree with Ardal O’Hanlan as Father Dougal, I couldn’t cope with him in Death in Paradise at all.

Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham.

Vitriolinsanity · 09/04/2023 17:33

John Thaw as Morse
Robbie Coltrane as Cracker
Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones
Alison Janney as CJ Cregg

StagsLeap · 09/04/2023 17:42

JulieHoney · 09/04/2023 11:19

Margot Robbie as Tanya Harding:
”who would do that….

… to a friend?”
😂

Eddie Marsan as the furious driving instructor in Happy Go Lucky

Idris Elba as Stringer Bell

That’s exactly who Eddie Marsan is for me (and a genius).

Peter Capaldi is Malcolm Tucker. Harriet Walter is (somehow) both Elizabeth I AND Fanny Dashwood. Emily Watson is Bess in Breaking the Waves and Stellan Skarsgaard (Skaarsgard?) is her husband.

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