# Same Actor/Actress In Same TV Show, But Now A Different Character

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-actress-in-same-tv-show-but-now-a-different-character/517751 "2009-11-16T07:26:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-actress-in-same-tv-show-but-now-a-different-character/517751/121 "2009-11-28T06:46:31Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Brent Spiner, of course, played Data, Lore, B4 and Dr. Soong (all variations on a theme, if you will).

He also played an earlier Dr. Soong on Enterprise.

> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> There’s another interesting one. Spike has a background story in which he wrote “bloody awful” poetry. He loved Cecily, played by Kali Rocha, but she despised him. Kali Rocha later played the demon Halfrek, who was a friend of Spike. Fans have speculated that they might be the same person. Joss Wheedon had not intended such when she was cast, but did later consider this as a possible storyline.

Halfrek was a friend of Anya, not Spike. Her first interaction with Spike, which only helped fuel the Halfrek = Cecily faction (but was probably just Joss or whoever messing with the fans) was a quizzical “William?” when the two met. (Spike’s real name being William, in case anyone else reading this doesn’t know.) This was never followed up on, hence the “messing with the fans” guess on my part.

Speaking of Buffy, the vampire she talks to in the graveyard in Conversations With Dead People shows up as a different character the following year on Angel.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-actress-in-same-tv-show-but-now-a-different-character/517751/122 "2009-11-29T13:53:28Z")

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Hilary Pritchard played three different customers on Are You Being Served? There was the rich lady that lost her diamond, the honeymooning bride whose husband bought a sweater, and the early morning shopper buying a hat for a morning wedding.

Another AYBS double character was Joanna Lumley, the His and Hers perfume girl and later the German customer.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-actress-in-same-tv-show-but-now-a-different-character/517751/123 "2009-11-29T14:33:54Z")

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Michael Palin plays two different shopkeepers in the Dead Parrot sketch. 😃

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**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/same-actor-actress-in-same-tv-show-but-now-a-different-character/517751/124 "2009-11-29T15:58:57Z")

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Quantum Leap?

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