# Actors that play themselves playing their character

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**Created:** [September 11, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-play-themselves-playing-their-character/321149 "2005-09-11T22:11:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-play-themselves-playing-their-character/321149/61 "2005-09-13T06:25:15Z")

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Re Ahnold, can I count T101 and T800 as separate characters? 😉

And I’ll disagree on both Robin Williams and Keanu Reeves being on this list. Robin Williams has not one, but two characters: Comic Robin Williams (Mork, _Good Morning Vietnam_, etc.) and Serious Robin Williams (_Dead Poets Society_, _Good Will Hunting_, etc.).

And Keanu Reeves isn’t a one-character actor, either: He’s a zero-character actor.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-play-themselves-playing-their-character/321149/62 "2005-09-13T06:28:41Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> And Keanu Reeves isn’t a one-character actor, either: He’s a zero-character actor.

Someone in another thread said that Russell Crowe “stared” in _Gladiator_. But Keanu has done more staring than Crowe ever will. All of it blank.

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**Author:** ![Pensandfeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Pensandfeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pensandfeathers)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-that-play-themselves-playing-their-character/321149/63 "2005-09-13T06:38:53Z")

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John Cusack was the first person I thought of when I saw this thread.

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