Some actors just can't seem to escape their most iconic role, from Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane to Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa.
From Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane to Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, some actors just can’t get away from their most famous character. Playing an iconic role in a movie or a TV show can be a gift and a curse for an actor. It launches them to stardom and often paves the way for more roles in other projects, but they’re forever associated with that character.
14 Steve Coogan Steve Coogan has created many comedy characters over the years – Tommy Saxondale, Paul and Pauline Calf, even a fictionalized version of himself – but the one character that will follow him for the rest of his life is socially inept broadcaster Alan Partridge. Coogan put Partridge on hiatus after the second and final season of I’m Alan Partridge, but the character got a second life when Neil and Rob Gibbons joined the writing team.
11 David Jason David Jason starred as Derek “Del Boy” Trotter on Only Fools and Horses from 1981 to 2003, and he’s since reprised the role in various shorts and TV specials. Jason made cameo appearances as Del Boy in both Strictly Come Dancing and The Apprentice. The actor has plenty of other iconic TV roles, like Granville from Open All Hours and Detective Inspector Jack Frost in A Touch of Frost, but none of them are as iconic as Del Boy. Del Boy is a defining figure in British comedy.
8 Hugh Jackman Between the original X-Men movie and his bittersweet swansong Logan, Hugh Jackman set the Guinness World Record for the longest on-screen tenure as a live-action Marvel character with his turn as Wolverine. After Logan laid the character to rest, Jackman was ready to retire from the role. However, he’s since been convinced to reprise the role alongside Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth in Deadpool 3, making that record-setting tenure even longer.
5 Peter Cullen Peter Cullen first started voicing Optimus Prime in the original Transformers animated series in the 1980s, and he’s still playing the part to this day. Cullen has voiced Optimus in every live-action Transformers movie since Michael Bay’s 2007 original, as well as new animated shows, video games, and a theme park ride. Optimus wouldn’t sound right with anyone else’s voice, so Cullen is guaranteed to get a call every single time a Transformers project goes into development.
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