# I just realized \_\_\_\_\_ is the same actor/actress who was \_\_\_\_\_ in \_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692 "2014-04-22T16:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/41 "2014-04-24T11:16:55Z")
The shy adenoidal village-bicycle type girl in **Wings** S01-E05 later was the shrill harpy hag-fag in **Will & Grace** , Megan Mullally. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/42 "2014-04-24T11:23:27Z")
Having watched The Purge, Game of Thrones, Dredd and the Sarah Connor Chronicles all within a few months of each other, anytime an actress looks familar but I can’t quite place her, I now just assume it’s Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister, Ma-ma, Sarah Connor) again. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/43 "2014-04-24T11:40:11Z")
I realized after watching 3 (yes, 3) seasons of True Blood that Anna Paquin, who plays Sookie Stackhouse also played Rogue in the X-Men movies. Also, Natalia Tena who played Nymphadora Tonks in the later Harry Potter movies is the same actor who plays Osha, the wildling woman in Game of Thrones. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/44 "2014-04-24T11:58:34Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Having watched The Purge, Game of Thrones, Dredd and the Sarah Connor Chronicles all within a few months of each other, anytime an actress looks familar but I can’t quite place her, I now just assume it’s Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister, Ma-ma, Sarah Connor) again. I always think she’s Saffron Burrows, and vice-versa. ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/45 "2014-04-24T13:55:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Second was learning that Jayne in **Firefly** was the title character in **My Bodyguard.** Adam Baldwin was also John Casey in Chuck. Amy Acker is Fred on Angel, the doctor in Dollhouse and now the cellist on Marvel Agents of Shield ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/46 "2014-04-24T15:45:37Z")
> [@Wolf333](#): > > He was also the deaf paratrooper in Saving Private Ryan. Also in Remember the Titian with Denzel Washington ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/47 "2014-04-24T19:39:25Z")
The owner of the bawdy house in “Mr. Selfridge” was Attia of the Julii in HBO’s “Rome”. The father of the female cop in the new TV series “Fargo” was Wild Bill Hickok in “Deadwood”. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/48 "2014-04-24T19:43:53Z")
Robin Wright Penn was/is Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride Jenny in Forest Gump Claire Underwood in House of Cards ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/49 "2014-04-24T19:53:04Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > Amy Acker is Fred on Angel, the doctor in Dollhouse and now the cellist on Marvel Agents of Shield And, of course, Root on _Person of Interest_. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/50 "2014-04-24T20:00:58Z")
I have to admit that, though I’m a fan of Matt Frewer’s work in _Max Headroom_ and _Doctor, Doctor_, and his current role as Dr. Leekie in _Orphan Black_, it took me a couple of episodes to recognize him as Dr. Taggart in _Eureka_. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/51 "2014-04-24T20:11:18Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > Adam Baldwin was also John Casey in Chuck. Adam Baldwin was also Animal Mother in _Full Metal Jacket_. I just realized a few days ago that Marianne Jean-Baptiste from the TV show _Without a Trace_ played the daughter in the film _Secrets & Lies_. > **[Secrets & Lies (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_%26_Lies_(film))** > > Secrets & Lies is a 1996 comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – and discovers that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. Claire Rushbrook co-stars as Cynthia's other daughter Rox... ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/52 "2014-04-24T20:34:05Z")
Nate Fillion was in _Saving Private Ryan_. He was the [wrong Private Ryan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA1Qz8kHops). ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/53 "2014-04-24T20:46:14Z")
_Jean Baptiste_ (the Haitian) in Justified was also _Armando Muñoz_ (Darwin) in X-Men First Class. The actor is Edi Gathegi. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/54 "2014-04-24T20:51:39Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > Amy Acker is Fred on Angel, the doctor in Dollhouse and now the cellist on Marvel Agents of Shield If you can’t recognize Amy Acker from one show to another, there might be something wrong with you. She was in some show the other night and I knew it was her just from the voice. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/55 "2014-04-24T21:15:16Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > _Jean Baptiste_ (the Haitian) in Justified was also _Armando Muñoz_ (Darwin) in X-Men First Class. The actor is Edi Gathegi. He was also one of the doctors on _House_ for a few episodes, when Cutthroat Bitch, 13, and the others were trying to get hired. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/56 "2014-04-24T21:25:05Z")
I watched _Wargames_ recently. Remember the first scene, in the Silo, where the older guy wouldn’t kill everyone without getting someone on the phone, and the younger guy pointed his gun at him and said “Turn your key, sir!” They’re both pretty [recognizable](http://youtu.be/rLMCjuge6oE). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/57 "2014-04-24T21:51:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Tricia Helfer was also Kerrigan in Starcraft II. And EDI in Mass Effect 2 and 3. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/58 "2014-04-24T22:09:15Z")
The guy who played the server on the train in _Silver Streak_ is the same guy who played the military judge in _A Few Good Men_. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/59 "2014-04-24T22:32:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > He was also one of the doctors on _House_ for a few episodes, when Cutthroat Bitch, 13, and the others were trying to get hired. And Cheese in Gone, Baby, Gone. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/60 "2014-04-24T23:04:59Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > The guy who played the server on the train in _Silver Streak_ is the same guy who played the military judge in _A Few Good Men_. J.A. Preston, I just saw him in _Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins_ a couple nights ago. He also had a recurring role on _Hill Street Blues_; I think he was captain at one of the other police precincts and then mayor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692.md?page=4)