Actors that play the same person in every single movie

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I think it would be easier and more interesting to list actors who either can play multiple parts or one dimensional actors who have successfully played outside their typical casting.

 

Chris Tucker.

 

Or Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.

 

Ok, here are a couple of typecast nerds from 1980's cinema. Anthony Michael Hall (Farmer Ted) and Courtney Gaines (The nerd who screams "You ***** on my house!" in Can't Buy Me Love)playing the parts of cold blooded hitmen in "The Killing Grounds".

 

Also...Bruce Willis is always a recovering drug addict.

 

Well...i think he plays the same person in life and on tv

Spoiler

 

See, you can only name one movie, truman show. Everybody has atleast one different movie. and Sunshine was a pretentious piece of bologna.

 

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Gary Oldman. That guy just always keeps with the consistency and stays within the median, never challenges himself

Spoiler

 

Johnny Depp
The guy who played John Locke on Lost

To the OP:

The guy who played Ben Linus on Lost
Edison Chen
Most minority actors

 

There is not a more diverse actor in Hollywood than Rob Schneider. He's played an animal, hot chick, gigolo's, and a stapler.

 

Total fail, the guy play different role in every movie.

 

It's funny how much people's perception and preference of on-screen personalties is rooted in an innate, first-impression kind of intangible sense of how "cool" the character(s) comes across, or moreover how authentic the performance ends up feeling to the viewer. People perceive trends, or the absence of, over an actor's body of work almost always along rigid, almost inexplicable qualitative lines of character compatibility.

I hear people saying Marky Mark of all people is a one trick pony, and then assert that Adam Scott is gold, which I wouldn't disagree with, but the guy isn't exactly a five-tool shortstop either. Just interesting how much of the brand loyalty we have to actors and celebrities is rooted in that x-factor of likability, and how differently that can be perceived.

 

I think playing the "same character" and "playing different characters the same way" are being taken as the same thing here...

Wahlberg plays different roles, but always acts the same for the most part. I guess it's due to a mix of the role allowing it and him not being able to transform himself.

 

Your opinion on Sunshine has no bearing on whether he played the same character or not. And he didn't.

 

You know who I get tired of basically playing himself over and over again? Dustin Hoffman. Can't believe he's only limited himself to playing a preppy college graduate, a street bum, a felonious criminal, an autistic savant, a middle-aged woman, a stand-up comedian, Captain Hook, and the same-old, same-old in 50 other roles.

ONE TRICK PONY!!!!


(P.S. whoever said DeNiro, Pesci, and Pacino is either obviously kidding or has a very limited filmography).

 

If we gonna be sarcastic. . . let's throw in TIM ROTH






Rocket River

 

A friend of mine said that almost every Ben Stiller movie is the same or he plays the same type of character who gets in over his head.