When an role player take on a huge , good luck - out part , he or she runs a vast risk of getting typecast . This is what leads to things like Leonard Nimoy publish I Am Not Spock . But occasionally , an actor wo n’t just play one iconic , famous character – they ’ll spiel two , or three . Here ’s a list of the musical genre actors who were either just that well , or just that lucky .
Top ikon : Print by William O’Neill for Star Wars Celebration VI
A little over a month ago , it was announced that Peter Capaldi will be the twelfth ( ? count on how the whole John Hurt thing plays out ) personification of the Doctor , a use that ’s been calling - defining for almost every actor that ’s step into the TARDIS . The choice was interesting for a number of reasons , among them the fact that Capaldi had just finished play what , for most actor , would be a calling - defining character : Malcolm Tucker on The Thick of It . Malcolm pop out out as a more peripheral character , but by the time the show ended , he ’d reasonably much stolen the limelight . Capaldi win three prize for his portrayal of the marked-up - mouthed , furious political tailspin doc . And there is absolutely no way his Doctor can be that similar to Malcolm . Well , he could , but his phone line would lie in mostly of bleep .
How iconic Capaldi ’s Doctor will be remains to be seen . But here are some other worker who already have most unbelievable two ( or three ! ) seats in the quality pantheon .
Arnold Schwarzenegger : Conan and the T-800
On some point , any role play by the former governor of California are iconic because of how memorable his face and voice are . But , nevertheless , it ’s hard to put together a list of people with several icons under their rap and not let in him . These are the aspiration for many a Halloween costume and attempt at an Austrian accent – necessary to either name the majuscule pleasure in life , or inform someone that you ’ll be back .
Patrick Stewart : Jean - Luc Picard and Charles Xavier
Did anyone seriously imagine that , after play Captain Picard on Star Trek : The Next Generation , Stewart would ever play a character as recognizable as that again ? That ’s in no way a scuttlebutt on Stewart ’s acting power , by the manner . It ’s that casting a Starfleet captain as Professor X would seem to be speculative . You really have to think that audiences will get over the gaud of that promptly , and not dwell on “ Picard is Professor X ” the whole time . But Stewart boom it – probably aid along by the fact that he was a dead - ringer for the comic theatrical role .
Ian McKellen : Gandalf and Magneto
While we ’re talking about ten - Men characters , we also have to admit Stewart ’s co - whizz ( and real life BFF ) Ian McKellen . Especially since we ’re not even done with McKellan as either of these yet . We ’ll see Gandalf in The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug at the terminal of this yr and McKellen ’s Magneto in hug drug - adult male : Days of Future Past in May , 2014 .
Keanu reef : Ted Logan and Neo
Going from doer lauded for their acting chops , to one who , evenhandedly or not , is n’t so much . Rand ’ lapidator - slacker Ted in Bill and Ted ’s Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted ’s Bogus Journey certainly seemed to be his defining role . Reeves certainly thought so — he once answered a interrogation about his fears by say , “ I used to have nightmares that they would put ‘ He Played Ted ’ on my tombstone . ” In the former 1890s , that may have been true . But in 1999 , The Matrix made Reeves ’ tombstone a less certain bet . Whether your first thought when you “ Keanu Reeves ” is him travelling sentence in a headphone booth or fighting Hugo Weaving in a long black coat likely depends on which movie you image first .
Alan Rickman : Hans Gruber and Severus Snape
Alan Rickman ’s villain in the original Die Hard was his very first film character . He ’s patently play a lot of keen character since then ( the Metatron in Dogma , Alexander Dane in Galaxy Quest , and Marvin in Hitchhiker ’s scout to The Galaxy to name a few memorable examples ) , but Gruber is an iconic part . Who has n’t express the line “ He wo n’t be joining us . . . for the rest of his life ” ? But Severus Snape is also an iconic role play very well . In fact , J.K. Rowling turn over Rickman some secret information on his theatrical role thatguidedhis performance , pay Snape a more elusive arc than almost any of the other grownup Harry Potter fictitious character .
Harrison Ford : Han Solo and Indiana Jones ( and , sure , confuse Rick Deckard in there , too )
It ’s possible that Harrison Ford may be the King of iconic literary genre defining role . Star Wars , Indiana Jones , and Blade Runner ? Yeah , that ’s pretty much all that require to be said here .
Richard Dean Anderson : MacGyver and Jack O’Neill
Kind of like Patrick Stewart , it was probably hard at the time to mean that Richard Dean Anderson could ever toy a persona with as much staying magnate as MacGyver , a role he played for seven age . Especially a role that was act as by a different actor in a movie . And yet , Anderson play Jack O’Neill , off and on , for more than a decade . The Stargate universe may have started with the movie , but SG-1 run for ten seasons and led to two spinoffs . And a tumid part of the connective tissue of that universe was Anderson ’s glib - but - competent O’Neill .
LeVar Burton : Kunte Kinte and Geordi LaForge ( and Reading Rainbow )
Burton ’s star - making role in source was the first of his professional vocation , and it start out him and Emmy nominating speech . And not to downplay how authoritative that work was , but there ’s also a whole generation of untested people who ca n’t assure you if the first meter they experience Burton was as Geordi LaForge in Star Trek : The Next Generation or as the boniface of Reading Rainbow .
Johnny Depp : Edward Scissorhands and Jack Sparrow
One of the on-key marks of an iconic lineament is whether you ’ll run into him while walk around Hollywood Boulevard . And Depp is one of the few actors who has several parts that fit that bill . Edward Scissorhands ’ titulary character , with Depp ’s portrayal and unique design , is hard to block .
And while it may be that the success of Jack Sparrow is the exact second that Johnny Depp stopped playing reference and started play caricatures , it ’s also a performance that was so surprisingly charming and pursue in film based on a drive , it ’s no wonderment it took off . Such is Jack Sparrow ’s popularity that they ’ve retconned that fictional character into the drive .
Micheal Keaton : Beetlejuice and Batman
Hey , mouth of Tim Burton and grapheme you’re able to run into on Hollywood Boulevard . . . Yeah . It ’s Beetlejuice and Batman . They ’re instantly recognizable .
Zachary Quinto : Sylar and Spock
recollect the first season of Heroes ? Zachary Quinto ’s Sylar was a revelation of a villain . He was so good that the writers could n’t let go of the quality , even when it made signified . And recall when he was announced as toy a Benjamin Spock in the Star Trek reboot ? Playing a persona who was already an icon , who has been roleplay by only one worker before , and playing that character in the same film as the original histrion ? That ’s a tall order for anyone . And yet , Quinto was so in effect , his public presentation did n’t just get a sigh of relief , it get commendation .
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