Actors who have suffered due to playing a role too well?

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Tony, from Eastenders, who abused Whitney, for me.

He is Kev in Emmerdale now. No idea if he is a neerdowell there as well, but I cant see past my hatred for him for Whitney 🤷‍♀️

See also: Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince - he will forever be associated with the Tom Jones dance.

To me Kevin Whateley will always be the headteacher in the film Trip Trap where he was abusive to his wife. I was youngish when I saw it and hadn’t seen any other films depicting DV, unlike today where everything is hard hitting and it really affected me. I can’t watch him in anything else even now.

I have just seen Bryan Cranston in "All My Sons" in the West End and he was fantastic. I have never seen him in anything else before. He has a very distinguished stage career, when you read his resume.

Dominic West is also a successful stage actor, and has also done loads of things on screen.... off the top of my head, Prince Charles in The Crown, Richard Burton in a drama-doc, was in The Hour, probably loads more that I've missed.

I love her! She is amazing.
I especially enjoyed her cameo in Friends 🤣

Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint have both had pretty successful careers post HP. I don't think acting is for Emma Watson, though.

He'll always be Walter, the Homeless guy from Diagnosis Murder, to me, and not the more famous Walter he later played.

Yootha Joyce, as MIldred.

I am permanently terrified of Jason Watkins, after the character he played in the series Being Human. I can never believe he's anything other than completely evil, even when he's playing lovely people! 😄

I will always remember Dominic West playing fred West, such a good portrayal

But for me, he is the shite husband in The Wire and then in The Affair - which i think isnt too much of an act 😄😄

What has rupert done? 👀

I know he had a show with nick something where he lies about having cancer

Shes great in The White Lotus

And 2 broke girls 😄

I saw Sonia from eastenders in a play maybe 15 years or so ago (Perry Fenwick was in the tiny audience) and she was great, I really thought she was going to break out of being Sonia and become a solid stage actress. But nope.

And him as silas dragged on for far too long

So whenever I see him, i just feel irritated at the years i sat through him on hollyoaks

Irl he is very thin and posh and crosses his legs

Wish he'd be a bit more like his character so I can carry on fancying him

Sick Note, with Nick Frost. He did quite a lot of swearing in that! He's done some films and TV series, there's a list on Wiki.

😭😭😭 I would love to be a fly on the wall in one of her sex therapy sessions - she really is stacey tbh, judging by her recent interviews bless her - i like her though

Sick note thats it - I liked season one

Gonna have to do a Google of the three of them tbh, as I dont know anything else theyve done

I know that Daniel was in one of Ricky gervais films or something

They must be so rich its not even worth the hassle working 😭

Same with danerys from GOT - not sure shes that great an actor judging by her film with sam clafin 😳

Paul Kaye (psychiatrist) will forever make my skin crawl after After Life

Of course it’s Errol Flynn. I’m nearly 65; people of my generation watched a lot of ‘classic’ black and white films on Sunday afternoons when there was nothing else to do.
well… him or the fox in the Disney version.

Jeremy Brett was the best Sherlock Holmes ever but playing it so well had a dire effect on his already fragile mental health.

Iwan Rheon. I’ve seen him in interviews and he’s lovely but I can’t get past what he did to Alfie Allen in GOT as Ramsey Bolton… evil.

I like Ross, but I agree he's not a convincing actor. On Bridge of Lies, you can always see when the contestant is going out, long before the womp-womp music begins, just by looking at his face! I always thing he's a dead ringer for Mr Happy from the Mister Men

Shaun Williamson has a number of strings to his bow, and had been on TV in various capacities, but even he laughs about the fact that everybody knows him as 'Barry from Eastenders'.

I know Pauline McLynn has really tried to distance herself from the role of Mrs Doyle, to avoid being typecast, but I can never see her in anything else without instantly hearing her say "Go on, go on, go on, go on... perhaps I like the misery!"

😄😄 I like him too, terrible acting be damned

Something likeable about him, dunno what it is - his face is very very round though, a la mr happy

Agree re Barry from eastenders, hes done well with it tbh, managing to hold his own on panel shows

I saw Jim from Neighbours quite recently in some tv show set on a yacht when I saw him I thought oh it’s Jim from Neighbours. I have no idea what his real name is

I was thinking "how silly" until I remembered Jason Watkins in "Being Human" He redeemed himself in Macdonald and Dodds.