# Actors you finally realize you've seen before. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951 "2012-02-25T14:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/21 "2012-02-27T23:02:14Z")
After four or five episodes of _Hustle,_ Danny turned his head a certain way. Holy crap! Teatime got a new gig! ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/22 "2012-02-27T23:03:34Z")
After four or five episodes of _Hustle,_ Danny turned his head a certain way. Holy crap! Teatime got a new gig! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/23 "2012-02-27T23:09:56Z")
> [@Tess](#): > > After four or five episodes of _Hustle,_ Danny turned his head a certain way. > Holy crap! Teatime got a new gig! As a Band of Brothers fan I zone in on anything that the cast is in. Teatime is Pvt Blythe. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/24 "2012-02-27T23:38:37Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I was at the show with a formerly prolific poster here and huge _Buffy_ fan who quit watching the show when Tara was killed off. Not only did she not recognize him, he [Adam Busch] was the guy who shot Tara and made her give up the show. To be fair, she’s the one who realized who it was the next day and told me. Ironically, Busch and Amber Benson, who played Tara, are an item these days - or at least, the last time I looked. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/25 "2012-02-28T03:50:38Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Allan Rickman was in both as well. Yes, but I _recognized him_ straight away both times. Rockwell, not so much. Both were awesome in both movies…but they were awesome in very different ways. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/26 "2012-02-28T20:25:28Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Watching a showing of _National Lampoon’s Vacation_ on TV recently, and realized that Cousin Vicki (“My daddy says I’m the best at it (French kissing)” is Jane Krakowski from _30 Rock_. I saw that movie for the first time in a long time after having been an _Ally McBeal_ fan for a while. Same with _Shawshank Redemption_. Gil Bellows was in both. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/27 "2012-02-28T20:33:51Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Ironically, Busch and Amber Benson, who played Tara, are an item these days - or at least, the last time I looked. Not anymore. The only reason I know this is because he started dating one of my best friends after he and Amber broke up. Unless they’ve gotten back together since, since my friend is no longer dating him either. ---
**Author:** ![NoLAFIN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9bcb4/32.png) [@NoLAFIN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLAFIN)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/28 "2012-02-28T20:50:06Z")
Watched the whole series of Firefly and the Serenity movie, not realizing that Jayne Cobb (played by Adam Baldwin) was Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket! My husband, who hasn’t seen one second of either Firefly or Serenity, recognized him at WizardCon! For the record, I _have_ seen Full Metal Jacket several times. It just never clicked for me. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/29 "2012-02-29T05:38:00Z")
I just saw a rerun of a 1991 Inspector Morse mystery, and an actor’s voice sounded familiar. It was Jeremy Clyde of “Chad and Jeremy”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/30 "2012-02-29T06:01:16Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I’d seen Galaxy Quest countless times, and the recent Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie twice, and it still wasn’t until a discussion on the former here that I realized that Sam Rockwell was in both (as Guy and Zaphod, respectively). Also, Alan Rickman was Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest and the voice of the robot in Hitchhiker’s Guide. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/31 "2012-03-01T06:09:17Z")
I was watching an episode of _Monk_ a while ago, and there was a character I couldn’t place. I couldn’t figure out who it was for hours and hours, but then I realized it was the guy who plays Barry Kripke in _The Big Bang Theory_ (it turns out his name is John Ross Bowie), speaking normally. That was why it was so hard to place him. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/32 "2012-03-01T16:55:00Z")
> [@NoLAFIN](#): > > Watched the whole series of Firefly and the Serenity movie, not realizing that Jayne Cobb (played by Adam Baldwin) was Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket! > > My husband, who hasn’t seen one second of either Firefly or Serenity, recognized him at WizardCon! For the record, I _have_ seen Full Metal Jacket several times. It just never clicked for me. He was also in Stargate, they were grooming him to be the lead on Atlantis but changed their minds. And of course he’s in Chuck which I think either just ended or will end this season. And also My Bodyguard, a 1980 movie. Dude’s been around. Caught all of these but never caught him in Full Metal Jacket. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/33 "2012-03-01T16:56:34Z")
I have a terrible memory for names but a great memory for faces so this happens to me all the time. Pre-IMDB I used to drive myself crazy trying to figure out where, now I just get used to having a cast list opened for most things I’m watching. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951/34 "2012-03-01T22:34:56Z")
I was watching _Terminator 2_ for the gazillionth time the other day, and only just noticed that Dyson’s wife was **S. Epatha Merkerson** from _Law & Order_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-finally-realize-youve-seen-before/613951.md?page=1)