Bakers Dozen

Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender

  1. Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously

  2. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There

  3. Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

  4. John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake

  5. Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor

  6. Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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  7. Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv

  8. Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets

  9. Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando

Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender

  1. Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously

  2. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There

  3. Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

  4. John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake

  5. Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor

  6. Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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  7. Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv

  8. Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets

  9. Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando

  10. Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie

Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender

  1. Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously

  2. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There

  3. Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

  4. John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake

  5. Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor

  6. Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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  7. Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv

  8. Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets

  9. Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando

  10. Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie

  11. Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared

Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender

  1. Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously

  2. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There

  3. Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray

  4. John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake

  5. Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor

  6. Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
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  7. Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv

  8. Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets

  9. Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando

  10. Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie

  11. Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared

  12. Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire

Movie Roles Played By an Actor of the Opposite Gender

  1. Linda Hunt as Billy Chan in The Year of Living Dangerously
  2. Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There
  3. Divine as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray
  4. John Travolta as Edna Turnblad in the Hairspray remake
  5. Eddie Murphy as Mama Klump in The Nutty Professor
  6. Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinski in Victor Victoria
  7. Imogene Stubbs, Joan Plowright, Hellen Mirren as Viola in separate Twelfth Night films/tv
  8. Alec Guinness as Lady Agatha in Kind Hearts and Coronets
  9. Tilda Swinton for half of Orlando
  10. Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie
  11. Peter Sellers as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII in The Mouse That Roared
  12. Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire
  13. Martin Lawrence in Big Momma’s House

I’ll pass

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur

He sleeps at Avalon but will return to lead Britain in its darkest hour.

He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. 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

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. 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)
  6. Jesus of Nazareth

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. 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)
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. 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)
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows)

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Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
  9. 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

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
  9. Muhammad Ahmad
  10. Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
  9. Muhammad Ahmad
  10. Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
  11. Jasmine in the TV series Angel

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
  9. Muhammad Ahmad
  10. Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
  11. Jasmine in the TV series Angel
  12. Quetzacoatl

Real or Fictional Messianic Figures

  1. Paul Atreides/Muad’Dib in the Dune series
  2. Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia series
  3. Brian in Life Of Brian’
  4. King Arthur
  5. Frodo, in Lord of the Rings
  6. Jesus of Nazareth
  7. Valentine Michael Smith, Stranger in a Strange Land
  8. Harry Potter (if only in The Deathly Hallows
  9. Muhammad Ahmad
  10. Hickey in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (he comes to save man not from sin but from their destructive, phony pipe dreams)
  11. Jasmine in the TV series Angel
  12. Quetzacoatl
  13. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson

New category: Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)

  1. Charles Laughton - Henry VIII

New category: Actors or actresses who have played British monarchs (no repeats)

  1. Charles Laughton - Henry VIII
  2. Bette Davis- Elizabeth I