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Actors/Actresses who seem to crop up in everything!
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I was channel hopping earlier and 'Waterloo Road', a programme I don't watch, was on BBC One. I immediately noticed a lady that I've seen in scores of things for years, but whose name I didn't know. I just looked it up and she's Georgie Glen, an actress who has appeared in everything from Little Britain to Harry Enfield and Chums, Heartbeat, Doctors and The Bill.
There are quite a few British character actors and actresses who seem ubiquitous; sometimes I know their names, sometimes only their faces (which can be annoying). Those I've noticed who do appear to be 'everywhere' (and whose names I know) include:
Celia Imrie
Charles Dance
Kevin Allen
Stephen Moore
Freda Dowie (who seemed to appear in every old 70s classic series)
These are all, of course, more well-known actors, but there are many more who will immediately make me think 'Oh, it's her/him again. S/he's in everything!' without knowing a name to put to the face
There are quite a few British character actors and actresses who seem ubiquitous; sometimes I know their names, sometimes only their faces (which can be annoying). Those I've noticed who do appear to be 'everywhere' (and whose names I know) include:
Celia Imrie
Charles Dance
Kevin Allen
Stephen Moore
Freda Dowie (who seemed to appear in every old 70s classic series)
These are all, of course, more well-known actors, but there are many more who will immediately make me think 'Oh, it's her/him again. S/he's in everything!' without knowing a name to put to the face
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See the "Magic (cast) Roundabout" I posted on Urban Dictionary, six years ago.
It's been "turning" a lot longer than that.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Magic%20%22cast%22%20Roundabout.&defid=2610892
Bill Nighy comes to mind straight away.
Cheryl Campbell
Similarly anything written by Kay Mellor, if members of her family don't appear they have some sort of behind the scenes role.
Oh, a similar thing happened with Sarah Lancashire a few years ago. She cropped up in every other ITV drama after leaving Coronation Street, and seems now to be a BBC favourite (Upstairs Downstairs, The Paradise).
Don't get me wrong, I think she's a bloody good actress, but in the last year, we've had:-
Corrie
Mr Selfridge
The Field of Blood
The Guilty
Mark Benton (and now he's infiltrated SCD !
Isn't miss Jones the one also in a Touch of Cloth on Sky One?
*And also because we couldn't pronounce his name
We used to have a laugh watching 1950s+ British films when Sam Kydd popped up in some shape or form on the credits. It was probably equalled by all his tv appearances as well...must run into hundreds !
Someone else noticed Sam Kydd as well! Sam Kydd-spotting was a regular thing in our house. We ever called our puppy Sam 'because he got into everything'!
He appeared in a supporting role in about sixty films, playing similar parts, many of them classics and thirteen TV dramas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Cook_Jr
Someone made this montage of some of his performances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l85PDOFhNuk
Oh, good call! An instantly recognisable face - even without looking him up, I can see him in 'The House on Haunted Hill' and 'Salem's Lot'.
I don't see how this is overexposure.
She finished Corrie Jan 2012, Selfridge was 10 episodes last year, The Guilty is 3 episodes currently showing and the Field of Blood is only 2 episodes.
Took a bit of imdb research, but that's not much at all really.
i was going to suggest KK too. It struck me last week when I was reading the preview of The Guilty that she's on a lot, before this thread was started. I think it's because they're all pretty high profile and the last two so close together
You beat me to it, she seems to have taken over from that other Corrie girl, I forget her name, the blonde one married to Curly Watts.
"Raquel."