# Prominent actors/actresses who have never been in a sequel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-actors-actresses-who-have-never-been-in-a-sequel/596389 "2011-09-15T14:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
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Who are some prominent actors/actresses who have never been in a sequel? “Never been in a sequel” in this case meaning they have never reprised a role in a separate movie. As far as I know John Cusack has never been in a sequel, though _War, Inc._ was damn near a sequel to _Grosse Pointe Blank_. Others? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-actors-actresses-who-have-never-been-in-a-sequel/596389/2 "2011-09-15T14:09:35Z")
Julia Roberts, I think. Dustin Hoffman. ---
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> [@bup](#): > > Julia Roberts, I think. I thought of her, but she was in _Ocean’s Eleven_ and _Ocean’s Twelve_. ---
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> [@bup](#): > > Dustin Hoffman. _Meet the Fockers_ and _Little Fockers_. ---
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Jodie Foster ---
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Helen Mirren, according to the definition in the OP (she was in **National Treasure: Book of Secrets** , but wasn’t reprising a role). Of course, many Golden Age actors never reprised a role. Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant (technically, he reprised his role in **Topper Takes a Trip** , but that was just reusing footage from the earlier film), and Clark Gable come to mind, and I’m sure there are dozens of others. ---
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Alec Baldwin ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-actors-actresses-who-have-never-been-in-a-sequel/596389/8 "2011-09-15T15:58:35Z")
Actually, I’d guess a LOT of Golden Age Hollywood stars never made a sequel. Sequels are much more common now, and many more movies are made in the HOPE that they’ll be successful enough to spawn sequels. John Wayne made a seqel to "True Grit, of course, but that was later in his career. If we’re sticking to current stars, I can’t think of any sequels Meryl Streep has appeared in. ---
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Oscar winners Russell Crowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey. ---
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Brando? (Does _Roots: The Next Generation_ count?) ---
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> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Brando? > > (Does _Roots: The Next Generation_ count?) Does _Superman_ count? Both Sequel & Prequel? ---
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Tom Hanks, if you don’t count voice acting in the Toy Story movies. ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Does _Superman_ count? Both Sequel & Prequel? _Superman II_ only has Brando in the artificially-spliced-together “Richard Donner Cut,” he never appeared in the original film. What prequel? ---
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> [@Leaffan](#): > > Tom Hanks, if you don’t count voice acting in the Toy Story movies. Hanks is disqualified in live action too: **The Da Vinci Code** and **Angels & Demons** ---
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> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > _Superman II_ only has Brando in the artificially-spliced-together “Richard Donner Cut,” he never appeared in the original film. > > What prequel? Didn’t they re-use the Brando footage in the new(ish) Superman movie with the flying Kryptonite island or whatever? ---
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I’ll try again, although I failed on my first two - Jimmy Stewart did a (made for TV) remake of _ **Harvey** _, but otherwise (and I’m looking at IMDB), I don’t see any repeated characters. ---
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W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx (though all their characters had similarities), Mae West, Burt Lancaster, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, etc. (not counting when they appeared as themselves). More recently, Adam Sandler, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kenneth Branagh, and Richard Pryor. ---
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Kevin Bacon ---
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> [@ekweizn](#): > > Kevin Bacon Good one. It’s quite amazing, considering his notoriously prolific career. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-actors-actresses-who-have-never-been-in-a-sequel/596389/20 "2011-09-15T21:20:43Z")
It doesn’t appear that Kevin Costner has made any sequels either (“Field of Dreams 2” is not a sequel to the Costner original- it’s a satirical short that DOES feature Costner as an Iowa farmer!). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-actors-actresses-who-have-never-been-in-a-sequel/596389.md?page=2)