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

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Noodge · 04/06/2025 14:31

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'.

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ecuse · 04/06/2025 16:16

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

Is your mind ever blown from realising who actors are in other things?
GasperyJacquesRoberts · 04/06/2025 16:33

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

imnotsickbutimnotwell · 04/06/2025 16:37

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.

PickAChew · 04/06/2025 16:40

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

SerendipityJane · 04/06/2025 16:44

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

Noodge · 04/06/2025 16:50

PickAChew · 04/06/2025 16:40

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

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

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Bollynicks · 04/06/2025 16:56

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!

FatLarrysBanned · 04/06/2025 17:06

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.

BobhopeNohope · 04/06/2025 17:14

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.

feelingbleh · 04/06/2025 17:17

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

MrsWinslowsSoothingSyrup · 04/06/2025 17:21

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.

Thecomfortador · 04/06/2025 17:22

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.

ghostyslovesheets · 04/06/2025 17:24

Thecomfortador · 04/06/2025 17:22

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!

CoffeeChocolateWine · 04/06/2025 17:26

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!

SidekickSylvia · 04/06/2025 17:32

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

WonderingWanda · 04/06/2025 17:35

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

igivein · 04/06/2025 17:37

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!

PeachTrifle · 04/06/2025 17:38

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

Danikm151 · 04/06/2025 17:39

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

HarrietBond · 04/06/2025 17:40

ghostyslovesheets · 04/06/2025 17:24

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

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.

SociableAtWork · 04/06/2025 17:41

SidekickSylvia · 04/06/2025 17:32

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

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

Redcliffe1 · 04/06/2025 17:43

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

HarrietBond · 04/06/2025 17:46

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.

MissM72 · 04/06/2025 17:46

igivein · 04/06/2025 17:37

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

Taniot · 04/06/2025 17:47

CoffeeChocolateWine · 04/06/2025 17:26

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!

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

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