# 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:** 4
**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, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/61 "2014-04-24T23:28:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Tricia Helfer was also Kerrigan in Starcraft II. > [@Alessan](#): > > And EDI in Mass Effect 2 and 3. Her best role was Alexa Wolf in _Howlin’ For You_. ---
**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, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/62 "2014-04-24T23:42:53Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > 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_. He was also Moloch in _Watchmen_. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMygj5N5g10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMygj5N5g10) (the clip’s dubbed in Spanish) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/63 "2014-04-24T23:44:27Z")
Don’s extramarital fling in last season’s _Mad Men_ was the girl from _Freaks And Geeks_. I watched the whole season wondering where I’d seen her before and finally looked it up. Linda Cardellini [looked a LOT different!](http://www.cinemaseries.es/wp-content/gallery/mad-men-the-doorway/mad_men_6x01-02_the_doorway_amc_01.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/64 "2014-04-24T23:50:10Z")
Wait, Jenny from Forrest Gump was Princess Buttercup? I never would have guessed that one. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/65 "2014-04-25T01:30:25Z")
I think my favorite recent ones are: Rory McCann, the actor who plays Sandor “The Hound” Clegane on _ **Game of Thrones** _ also played the big mentally challenged grocery store worker/thug whose only words are “YARP” and “NARP” in “Hot Fuzz”. Stephen Dillane, who plays Stannis Baratheon on _ **Game of Thrones** _ played Thomas Jefferson in _ **John Adams** _ with Paul Giamatti, and also played the head Druid in _ **King Arthur** _ with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/66 "2014-04-25T01:34:58Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > The musclebound meathead Lump from **The Ladykillers** > > [the ladykillers - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+ladykillers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IOJWU_-5COSMyAGgtICABQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1241&bih=639#q=the%20ladykillers%202004&revid=463430405&tbm=isch&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Zop2JhE2CbMJKM%253A%3BKarl0ylD-8kf8M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fblahmovies.files.wordpress.com%252F2010%252F07%252Fladykillers.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcelluloidzombie.com%252Fthe-movie-remake-if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it%252F%3B509%3B287) > > is actually Opie from **Sons of Anarchy** > > [Ryan Hurst](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2416158720/nm0403652?ref_=nmmi_mi_all_sf_8) He was also the guy who gets paralyzed in **Remember the Titans** ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/67 "2014-04-25T01:46:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > B I saw an episode with Brian Blessed a few weeks ago, but I didn’t know it at the time. According to TV Tropes, his name is properly spelled [BRIAN BLESSED!!!](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SelfDemonstrating/Ptitleijqobqvle9an?from=SelfDemonstrating.BrianBlessed) ---
**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 25, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/68 "2014-04-25T02:23:21Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Don’s extramarital fling in last season’s _Mad Men_ was the girl from _Freaks And Geeks_. I watched the whole season wondering where I’d seen her before and finally looked it up. Linda Cardellini [looked a LOT different!](http://www.cinemaseries.es/wp-content/gallery/mad-men-the-doorway/mad_men_6x01-02_the_doorway_amc_01.jpg) And she played [Velma](http://e08595.medialib.glogster.com/media/75/75b80fe68635fdadef0187fc1c9d80c3a281d9644a329834c3ec7b4e4000e342/photo-28-hires.jpg) in the Scooby Doo movie. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/69 "2014-04-25T03:29:14Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > 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) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_%26_Lies_(film)) That guy’s a Baldwin?! Never would have guessed. ---
**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 25, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/70 "2014-04-25T03:34:33Z")
He’s not a “Baldwin”, as in related to the family of acting Baldwins. Adam has been in acting longerand has always used that name. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/71 "2014-04-25T03:35:35Z")
Ah, thank you. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/72 "2014-04-25T04:29:47Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Adam has been in acting longer Not quite true. Adam and Alec started at about the same time. Both of them have their first credits in 1980. He’s been acting longer than most of the Brothers Baldwin, by a fairly wide margin, but not Alec. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/73 "2014-04-25T04:59:31Z")
Bilbo Baggins is Arthur Dent. ---
**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 25, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/74 "2014-04-25T13:11:42Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Not quite true. Adam and Alec started at about the same time. Both of them have their first credits in 1980. He’s been acting longer than most of the Brothers Baldwin, by a fairly wide margin, but not Alec. Technically true, though Adam was a lead in a movie while Alec had a small soap opera role. Alec eventually eclipsed Adam (starting when Adam landed one of the leads in _Beetlejuice_), plus Alec brought along his (mostly) no-talent brothers, but by that time Adam had established his own name. Generally speaking, agents will have their client change his/her name to avoid confusion with another ‘name’ performer. If your surname is Baldwin and you want to get into acting today, you would probably have to change it. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/75 "2014-04-25T13:44:30Z")
A couple from The Wire: Mayor Royce is the high school teacher in Gremlins. (Noticed more by his voice than his looks) Spiros (The Greek’s second hand man) is the Cohle and Hart’s boss in the second half of the season in True Detective Wilson (Carcetti’s campaign manager) is Freddy the Rib maker in House of Cards D’Angelo Barksdale is Bob in the Walking Dead (I thought this was obvious until I was discussing the Walking Dead with a group of people who also love The Wire and I mentioned that there are two people from the Wire - the all knew Cutty but I had to give mutliple examples before D’Angelo clicked with them.) ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/76 "2014-04-25T14:32:24Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > …starting when Adam landed one of the leads in _Beetlejuice_… Speaking of inadvertent confusion… 😃 ---
**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 25, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/77 "2014-04-25T14:43:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Speaking of inadvertent confusion… > > 😃 :smack: Even proofreading didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/78 "2014-04-25T16:35:24Z")
Although one of the roles is voice only, I was shocked to find that Luminere from _Beauty and the Beast_ was Lenny Briscoe! At the time, I wasn’t aware the Jerry Orbach had a whole 'nother life as a Broadway star. One of the cable networks (Spike?) did a promo for their upcoming showing of _Starsky and Hutch_, and the promo highlighted every S&H guest star who had appeared in any in Star Trek. They showed the S&H character, but gave them their ST names. It was pretty clever, especially for the ones who were very young and unknown in the S&H days. Wish I could find a copy of that. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692/79 "2014-04-25T17:07:34Z")
Gimli (toss me!) from LOTR is Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Brian Blessed was in Flash Gordon as a Hawk-man. He was also the voice of Boss Nass in Phantom Menace. Robin Wright was also Bruce Willis’ wife in Unbreakable. The kid in that was the kid in Gladiator. Peter Capaldi, the newest Doctor, was in World War Z, playing a doctor from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). ---
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The ship captain, Katanga, in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, (“Jones is dead. I killed him”), is Kingsley Shacklebolt in the Harry Potter movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-realized-_____-is-the-same-actor-actress-who-was-_____-in-_____/686692.md?page=5)