Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared
anyrose
July 27, 2013, 3:42pm
18686
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared
Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire
Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender
Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared
Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire
Martin Lawrence in Big Momma’s House
I’ll pass
Sampiro
July 27, 2013, 4:00pm
18688
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
anyrose
July 27, 2013, 5:04pm
18690
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian
Sampiro
July 27, 2013, 6:24pm
18691
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
He sleeps at Avalon but will return to lead Britain in its darkest hour.
anyrose:
Brian in Life Of Brian
He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings (as much as Tolkien disliked facile analogies, I still think Frodo carrying the ring of evil up Mount Doom is supposed to represent Jesus carrying his cross up Mount Calvary)
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings (as much as Tolkien disliked facile analogies, I still think Frodo carrying the ring of evil up Mount Doom is supposed to represent Jesus carrying his cross up Mount Calvary)
Jesus of Nazareth
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings (as much as Tolkien disliked facile analogies, I still think Frodo carrying the ring of evil up Mount Doom is supposed to represent Jesus carrying his cross up Mount Calvary)
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings (as much as Tolkien disliked facile analogies, I still think Frodo carrying the ring of evil up Mount Doom is supposed to represent Jesus carrying his cross up Mount Calvary)
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows )
Sampiro
July 28, 2013, 3:32am
18697
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Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
Muhammad Ahmad
Real life claimant to the role of Mahdi and leader of a rebellion, though perhaps more famous for being played by a very brown Laurence Olivier in Khartoum.
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
Muhammad Ahmad
Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
anyrose
July 28, 2013, 3:29pm
18699
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
Muhammad Ahmad
Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
Jasmine in the TV series Angel
Sampiro
July 28, 2013, 4:34pm
18700
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
Muhammad Ahmad
Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
Jasmine in the TV series Angel
Quetzacoatl
Real or Fictional Messianic Figures
Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
Brian in Life Of Brian’
King Arthur
Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
Jesus of Nazareth
Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
Muhammad Ahmad
Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
Jasmine in the TV series Angel
Quetzacoatl
Rabbi Menachem Schneerson
New category: Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)
Charles Laughton - Henry VIII
New category: Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)
Charles Laughton - Henry VIII
Bette Davis- Elizabeth I