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.

That might of been my cousin Gary who played Barry Clarke, the character was gay but Gary is heterosexual and has been attacked a few times where people mistook him for the character he played.

He is indeed a dish. I haven’t seen Law and Order.

Now, if somebody could time travel back to the casting of Pride and Prejudice 2005 and persuade Jack Gordon to take the role of Mr Darcy I’d be most grateful. 😎

I remember Malandra Burrows because I was working at the Civic Theatre in Halifax when she was in Panto there at the height of her fame, must have been mid eighties. She was so pretty.

I’ve googled. Top results are about her cancer diagnosis. I didn’t click on anything.

I used to know (slightly) an actor in a soap opera. At one point in the story his character was cheating on his wife with a woman at work. He and the actress playing his mistress were shooting on location in town when a woman came up and started giving them both hell about their disgusting behaviour. I mean, the camera, mics and lights were right there! The actors and crew did their best to explain that what she saw on the telly was fiction, not real life, but they weren't sure she believed them even after they'd shooed her away.

I’m currently watching Death by Lightning and he plays his character brilliantly

Apparently he (Christopher Timothy) was originally auditioning for the part of Tristan but his agent insisted he accept only the lead

What made his agent think he had that much clout? And opposite Robert Hardy, who could act almost anyone off the screen if he felt like it. Up to that point he was mostly known for advertising the Sun, as I recall. Still, it worked. But Peter Davison has gone on to have far more high profile roles. He was the ideal Albert Campion.

Accidental double post, MN did its freezing thing.

Apparently he (Christopher Timothy) was originally auditioning for the part of Tristan but his agent insisted he accept only the lead

What made his agent think he had that much clout? And opposite Robert Hardy, who could act almost anyone off the screen if he felt like it. Up to that point he was mostly known for advertising the Sun, as I recall. Still, it worked. But Peter Davison has gone on to have far more high profile roles. He was the ideal Albert Campion.

Ahem, Prine Minister of the UK from 1997-2007 is quite a big career achievement, don't you think?!

Of course, there's the Judi Dench paradox.

Judi Dench only ever plays herself but she lets you know that she's pretending to be Judi Dench by overdoing being Judi Dench as Judi Dench.

I thought I once saw her being quite funny and good at being Judi Dench with a kind of lovable, fun side to her persona but then I realised I was watching Tracey Ullman.

If it was good enough for Michael Caine…

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I don’t know. I just heard him (Christopher Timothy) in an interview, saying that’s what happened.

I think he said something along the lines of he was a very new actor and his agent was a ‘go getter’ who told him, go big (accept only the lead) or go home, get your career off to a great start.

Unfortunately it turned out to be a bit of a curse, career wise but we have it to thank for the 70’s ‘All Creatures’ fantastic Herriot so there’s that.

Yes, it was an Irish accent in Death in Paradise (I’m Irish too). Sounded very similar to Fr Dougal to me. I think he used his own accent for both.

Yes, I do find it worrying that I fancy a latent psycho, see also Jamie Dornan in The Fall. I do like a good looking psycho though, I have standards.

😄😄 exactly, a hot psycho is acceptable imo

Macauley Culkin and Mark Paul Gosselaar.

He pops up all the time in character rolls, often under yards of make up.
We get to say, ‘Oh look it’s *Dennis Pennis, several times a year.
*totally showing my age!
Good actor.

The guy... Andy Robinson?... who played Scorpio in Dirty Harry. If I recall he struggled to find other roles after that terrifying performance. Great actor.

Surely it's Kevin Costner 😂

I think it was Alan Bradley from Corrie, shortly before he was finished off by a Blackpool tram

He has a way to go if he wants to be the longest running soap actor and drop the "on TV". June Spencer racked up over 70 years on The Archers before her death and Paddy Greene also from The Archers has a few years on William Roache.

I don't think Happy Valley did James Norton any harm at all. However he does seem to want to do interesting projects like A Little Life on stage as well as doing film and TV.

I have somehow never seen Happy Valley, so I have to say the idea he’s been typecast seems way off the mark. He’s played a variety of very different types - Grantchester, Prince Andrei in war and peace, McMafia off the top of my head.

James Norton in Grantchester.

I’m struggling a bit with accepting Rob James-Collier as anything other than Barrow in Downton Abbey. A few more episodes of Cooper and Fry and I might get there.

The doctor in Joy, the rather wet father in Playing Nice, there's House of Guinness, King and Conquerer, Rogue Agent, he was in the Bob Marley biopic too.

He's incredibly versatile. And hot, and sexy,🥵(which made him a terrible Sir Clifford in Lady Chatterley's Lover. I mean even if the gardener is Jack O'Connell, she was married to James Norton!!!!) He's wonderful in everything else though!