Grace Park & Tricia Helfer anyone else have a similar role to these 2?

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Talking about Battlestar Galactica of course. My question is a bit hard to word but follow me here.

Grace Park plays the roles of Boomer, Athena, and random 8’s some of whom have clear personalities that make them stand out from the others…one actress playing multiple roles all of which are variants of the same role.

Tricia Helfer Plays Caprica6, Baltars head6, the 6 that was captured aboard Pegasus, the 6 that was leader of the rebel Cylons, as well as who knows how many other 6’s that also have there own somewhat distinct personality much like Park and her random 8’s.

is there any other show/film/whatever where a single (or in this case pair) actor has such a strange role? I am curious because as I rewatch all the seasons gearing up for the series finally I have to wonder if anything like it has been done before. 2 actresses in one show handling around 9 roles between them, all of them distinct enough to stand out.

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The Young Ones. Alexei Sayle played Jerzy Balowski, Tony Balowski, Billy Balowski, and I forget who else. He was always credited as “the Balowski family.”

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Well, Alec Guiness played just about every adult memeber of the Dascoyne family in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and they were mostly jerks.

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The Black Adder had actors playing different characters each season, although they were often very similar.

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In Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers plays 3 characters.

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In Star Trek, the next generation, Brent Spiner was Data, his evil twin Lore, their creator Dr Soong… and in the movies B-4, the idiot android ‘older brother’ :smiley:

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Eliza Dushku is playing multiples in Dollhouse now.

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She’s only playing one role, though - Echo.

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Eddie Murphy played most of the Klumps in the Nutty Professor movies.

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Chris Lilley seems to have a habit of doing it.

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Well, Patty Duke played: Patty, Cathy, Patty pretending to be Cathy and Cathy pretending to be Patty, all slightly different.

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Tony Randall played seven different parts in 7 Faces of Dr Lao.

One thing I noticed the last time I watched this movie was that Dennis Price also played more than one role. In addition to his lead role as Louis Mazzini, he also played his character’s father (the Italian opera singer) in the brief flashback scene.

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There is some HBO or Showtime series now…“The United States of Tara”…I think? Yep, that’s it, on Showtime. That has the lead character playing someone with Multiple Personality Disorder. So the same actress plays like 3 or 4 totally distinct personalities on the show.

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Meg Ryan plays three different characters in Joe Versus The Volcano, two of whom are sisters.

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Cheech Marin plays 3 separate Mexican dudes in From Dusk Til Dawn:
A border patrol cop
The bouncer at The Titty Twister
Their contact at the end of the film

Perhaps the best example of what you are looking for is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays three separate T-800 Terminators.

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Patty Duke played her character and her prim cousin on the Patty Duke show.

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Martin Lawrence played several characters on Martin.

Micheal Keaton played a contractor and several of his clones, each one a different aspect of his personality in Multiplicity.

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Rachel Dratch played a different character just about every week in the first season of 30Rock.