**Ye-jin Son ** plays a dual role in the wonderful Korean romance The Classic. She plays a young college woman and, in flashback, her mother.
**Ziyi Zhang ** plays three roles in the film Jasmine Women. **Joan Chen ** plays three roles as well. Both actresses do an amazing job. Especially Ziyi. She’s something else.
Or someone will read this 5 years from now and prove us all wrong. Here is how I got 26 Keaton roles in The Play House:
1 = ticket buyer.
2 = band leader.
3-5 = band players, left side.
6-8 = band players, right side.
9 = stagehand.
10-18 = minstrel show.
19-20 = couple in box seats.
21-22 = boy and older woman.
23-24 = other couple.
25-26 = dancers.
Then Joe Roberts comes by to talk to Keaton, who I assume is the same as the ticket buyer. And that is just the start of the movie. Would anyone care to do a recount? Or a re-count?
I hate being in line behind you at the supermarket
and to the OP: does Monty Python count?
Peter Jackson had a cameo role in each of the LotR films; respectively ‘drunken Bree villager’ / ‘Helm’s Deep spear chucker’ / ‘pirate’.
I almost bought the special edition DVD the other day but I already had several new DVDs in hand and couldn’t justify it.
IMDb credits Eddie Murphy with eight roles in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, so he’s at least up there.
I swear, some actors seem to be addicted to the makeup chair. Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers are probably the worst offenders, but there are quite a few others. Martin Short springs to mind.
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall both played multiple roles in Coming to America.
Charlie Chaplin played two roles in The Great Dictator.
(If someone’s already mentioned this, please forgive and/or ignore me) The Wizard of Oz has Dorothy’s companions played by the same guys who played her family back in Kansas.
Kinda cheating, but Haley Mills and Lindsey Lohan played two roles in their respective versions of The Parent Trap.
Divine had two roles in Female Trouble.
In ‘La Cite des enfants perdus’ (City Of Lost Children), Dominique Pinon plays ‘the clones’, being a rather manic set of henchmen at the beck and call of the main villain. I’m not sure from memory, but I think there are seven or eight of them, and they all inter-act on the screen in a complex fashion that must have been very difficult to achieve, even with modern, digital FX.
While Guinness got the attention for playing several roles in Kind Hearts and Coronets, he wasn’t the only one who did it. Dennis Price also played two roles; Louis Mazzini and his father.
One I missed the first time I watched it was Jumanji. I didn’t notice that Jonathan Hyde, who played Samuel Parrish, also played Van Pelt.