Is your mind ever blown from realising who actors are in other things?

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I am rewatching Orange is the New Black currently. Taslitz is one of my favourite characters and over a decade later I now learn that she's the lead role in Dead Silence (one of my favourite films).
I was the same when I realised Kirsten Dunst is the little girl vampire in 'Interview with the Vampire'.

Realizing that the Russian singer in the Eurovision movie was him from Downton Abbey

I still can't believe that the actress who voiced Mirabel in Encanto also plays Rosa in Brooklyn 99.

Random but Simon Jones who played Arthur Dent in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tv series also played Sir Walter Raleigh in Blackadder and George V in Downton Abbey. He has a very distinctive voice and it was bugging me where I knew in from when I saw the Downton film.

Realising that the ruthless assassin in Black doves was Paddington Bear (Ben Whishaw) . It's the hard stare that got me 😂

I was blown away by Hugh Grant in "The Gentlemen".

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I see what you did there! And I didn't know that either!

A lot of the above 🤣

I just found out last week that it's Blake Lively playing the lead in the Ageing of Adeline.... mind still blown!

Kelly Reilly plays both the quite frankly psychotic Beth Dutton from Yellowstone and Mr Bingley's mean sister Caroline in a Pride & Prejudice film adaptation. She play a nasty character very well, just a few hundred years apart.

Jeanette Goldsyein played private Vasques in Aliens and Teminaator 2 she played Janelle.
No way would you think they were played by 5he same person.

I was shocked when I realised rusty in national lampoon's Christmas vacation is johnny galeki from big bang theory and roseanne

Two people in the same film for me:
Claire Skinner - Nat
Jane Horrocks - Nicola
in Life is Sweet

The characters they both play in that film are outstanding. Two of my favourite ever characters I think. Alison Steadman is a joy as ever.

Deano from Gavin and Stacey is Thomas the poet in ghosts. Matthew Baynton, I believe he's been in a lot of things.

And recently, Brian from spaced was Jim from Friday Night Dinner. Forget his name but he's in his 60s now which I also can't get my head around.

Yes - my kids love FND so I showed them an episode of Spaced and they just couldn’t get their heads round it!

I love The Last Kingdom and have watched all episodes 3 times. It took me a very long time to realise that the actor who plays Father Beocca (Ian Hart) is also Professor Quirrell! That blew my mind a bit!

Took me far too long to recognise Moira Rose in Schitts Creek as the mum in Home Alone.

I only twigged this week whilst watching an old Goggle Box that Anna Maxwell Martin from motherland was Carmichael from Line of Duty.

I think Lee Ingleby has incredible range:
He's the sidekick in George Gently, the voice of Bob the Builder, Stan Shunpike in The Prisoner of Azkhaban and Sam Tyler's dad in Life on Mars amongst other things.
I saw him a few years back being a really evil so and so, but I can't remember the name of the series. When I realised it was the guy from George Gently my head nearly exploded!

I saw Lolly Adefope (Kitty, Ghosts) on stage at the Globe - completely blew my mind!

Violet from Call the Midwife is Monica from Shameless. That was pure OMG

Mark Heap is always the person I think of when I see this question. Dr Statham in Green Wing is not a million miles from Jim in Friday Night Dinner, and that's the role I first saw him in after Spaced.

OMG! Thank you - I knew I knew her face 😂

I watched the whole of "community " and "love" and didn't realise they had the same person in it.

I did watch the whole of Being John Malkovitch thinking how refreshing it was that they’d cast such a relatively normal looking woman in a lead role, only to see it was Cameron Diaz.

I thought bob the builder was Neil Morrisey from men behaving badly !

Wow I didn’t realise that!

Also Ewan Mitchell who plays shy and sweet Osferth in The Last Kingdom is Prince Aemond Targaryen (we call him eyepatch guy) in House of the Dragon