Actors/Actresses who were or still are typecast?
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One of the big fears of actors and actresses seems to be getting typecast. As a consequence, we often see them leaving major roles lest they get stuck in those kinds of parts forever. Some don't bother, and simply stay in the roles - others leave and find themselves unable to get other types of role anyway. Who do you think has been typecast? I'll go first:
Barbara Windsor. Not the most versatile actress in the world, but from youth to her current age, I don't think Ms Windsor has ever played anything other than the proverbial 'cockney sparra'.
Kelsey Grammer. He played Frasier Crane for over twenty years, and seems to have been (sadly) unsuccessful in getting different roles since.
Rachel Gurney. An old one here - Ms Gurney is most famous as Lady Marjorie Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. She left because she feared getting typecast (and hated the character) but came to regret her decision. She didn't make too many appearances on TV after the show, and when she did it was the usual upper class types.
Barbara Windsor. Not the most versatile actress in the world, but from youth to her current age, I don't think Ms Windsor has ever played anything other than the proverbial 'cockney sparra'.
Kelsey Grammer. He played Frasier Crane for over twenty years, and seems to have been (sadly) unsuccessful in getting different roles since.
Rachel Gurney. An old one here - Ms Gurney is most famous as Lady Marjorie Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. She left because she feared getting typecast (and hated the character) but came to regret her decision. She didn't make too many appearances on TV after the show, and when she did it was the usual upper class types.
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Oh, I can't stand that chap - and he's allegedly a pretty unpleasant person in real life. He's most certainly typecast, though.
Another one would be Ray Winstone. I don't think he can play anything other than a cockney gangster. Even his (appalling) turn as Henry VIII was more Phil Mitchell in period costume than renaissance monarch. He didn't even make any attempt at altering his standard East End accent, despite the fact that the rest of the cast playing nobles and royals spoke in RP.
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Could not be more wrong. I agree he did struggle with a few comedies after Frasier ended, but just last year he won an Emmy for his role in the drama, Boss, playing the mayor of Chicago, who is diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder. As far away from Frasier as you can get (especially the violence and swearing lol !).
Probably on a nice wage, and gets all the time off he wants
Julie Andrews, Doris Day ... in the other.
Joe Mantegna - Always playing mobster characters like Fat Tony of The Simpsons.
Frank Welker - Always does animal noises in various cartoons like The Simpsons.
I never saw 'Boss', but I understood it to have been cancelled fairly quickly. He *is* a good actor, but he just seems to not get accepted by the public in different roles - they just don't seem to work out successfully for him.
Did he ever play anyone else?
Reminds me of Adam Woodyatt (purely in terms of career
Absolutely not. I've seen her play a huge range of roles from the eccentric schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, to the feisty nurse in Death on the Nile, to the down to earth northern woman in A Private Function to the working class housekeeper in The Marigold Hotel (can't remember its full name!). with loads of varied roles inbetween them all. Extremely versatile actress.
Jennifer Aniston always seems to play kooky, flustered, types.
And of course the elderly Scottish Hogwarts professor (McGonagall?).
Hugh Grant spent much of his career playing a flustered, middle class English fop.
Boss is excellent and ran for 2 seasons. Although cancelled I was happy that he finally got recognition for his acting outside of Frasier.
Couldn't disagree more
Have you not seen To Die For, The Hours, Rabbit hole, The Paperboy, Moulin Rouge, Stoker etc
They are all such different characters.
She is one of the few versatile actress of today, but fails to get any mention for it.
I would love to see him play a dustman.
But then who would play slimy charmers of a certain age?!
Ah, but Adam Woodyatt isn't even the best at playing "Ian Beale" - he simply plays himself. At least Bill Roach has to tone himself down to play Ken.
Bill Roache actually did quite a bit of work before Coronation Street. He had a minor role in the Norman Wisdom film The Bulldog Breed in 1960 plus a drama for Granada, Marking Time, and Biggles for ITV.He also appeared in a number of other series including Knight Errant, again for ITV. He is the world's longest serving TV soap actor having appeared in the first episode of Coronation Street.
- ray winstone - plays himself in ever role
- nicholas lyndhurst - I loved him as rodney in early only fools but then john sullivan ruined it by making him 'intelligent'. he became all serious and pointless. he's been playing the same character ever since in that time travelling guff and more recently new tricks
- Denis waterman - played terry mcann all his life. wide boy lothario even though hes 210
- Mike Reid - frank butcher was mike reid and mike reid was the only character he could play