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Has one actor ever played two different characters from Marvel?
In the MCU
For an extensive list including all the unnamed background characters, see here. I've chosen to focus just on the characters with memorable roles who I can find pictures of.
Laura Haddock ...
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Has one actor ever played two different characters from Marvel?
Chris Evans played Johnny Storm (AKA Human Torch) and Captain America.
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Have Star Trek actors commented on why they didn't work more after Star Trek?
The pattern here doesn't seem that unusual for the cast of a successful television show not to ever get another high-profile role; there are far more TV actors than TV roles to go around. In fact, ...
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Does Lwaxana Troi ever talk to herself (as the computer voice)?
Yes.
Twice in fact.
From TNG Season 2 Episode 19, Manhunt (transcript here):
LWAXANA: Hello, computer? Is Commander Riker still on the Bridge?
COMPUTER: Negative. Riker is currently in holodeck ...
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In which Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes did Patrick Stewart not appear?
Patrick Stewart appeared in every episode; there's a discrepancy in how those two pages are counting.
Star Trek: The Next Generation aired 176 episodes. However two of those episodes, the premiere ...
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Which character in Star Trek has been played by the most actors?
Mr. Spock (12, up to 15)
Definite:
Leonard Nimoy, most famously
Zachary Quinto in the reboot continuity
Jacob Kogan played the young Spock in Star Trek (2009)
Spock appears as a baby in Star Trek V, ...
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Did any Star Trek actor play both a Starfleet crewmember and one of the encountered aliens?
Patricia Tallman
Played the following enterprise/starfleet crewmembers:
In order she is portraying:
Enterprise-D Officer, TNG episode "Power Play"
Enterprise-D Officer, Star Trek: ...
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Which characters have been recast in the Harry Potter films?
There are 17 :
Griphook : Verne Troyer -> Wawrick Davis
Lavender Brown : Jennifer Smith -> Jessie Cave
Elphias Doge : Peter Cartwright -> David Ryall
Katie Bell : Emily Dale -> Georgina Leonidas
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Is this story about how Michael Dorn became Worf true?
He did try to act like a Klingon, but he also read his lines.
From Memory Alpha, with a citation to Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, 2nd edition, p. 20:
Michael Dorn recalled his audition ...
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Is it intentional that most of the antagonists from the original trilogy are British?
According to a BBC interview with LucasFilm's UK production executive Peter Beale, casting senior British actors in seeming title roles was instrumental in helping to get Fisher, Hamill and Ford work ...
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Which actor has played the same sci-fi character for the longest time?
If you extend from film and TV to audio plays, Carole Ann Ford has been playing Susan Foreman for 58 years:
Dr Who: An Unearthly Child (1963)
Dr Who: After the Daleks (2021)
William Russel is close ...
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Has one actor ever played two different characters from Marvel?
Ray Stevenson is the Punisher in Punisher: War Zone and Thor's Tight Buddy as Volstagg in Thor.
Volstagg
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Did any Star Trek actor play both a Starfleet crewmember and one of the encountered aliens?
Tim Russ
played the Vulcan security officer on Voyager and also a Klingon named T'Kar on DS9
He also played a human crewmember on the Enterprise-B, which fulfills OP's comment that he wished it was ...
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Which actor appears as the most different species in Star Trek?
Patricia Tallman has 10!
Human (played an Enterprise security officer in TNG "Power Play", the Defiant tactical officer in DS9 "The Way of the Warrior", and her face as appeared when playing Beverly ...
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Which actor has played the same sci-fi character for the longest time?
In keeping the with SF&F aspect: Leonard Nimoy played Spock over a period of ~47 years. From his initial appearance in the original Star Trek TV series in 1966 to Star Trek: Into Darkness in 2013.
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Earliest sci-fi film or program where an actor plays themself
1935: the movie serial The Phantom Empire. A vehicle for the singing cowboy Gene Autry, who plays a singing cowboy named Gene Autry, so presumably a fictional version of himself (and there is a story-...
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Actors appearing in both Star Trek and Star Wars?
Films
Simon Pegg was in the 2009 Star Trek as Montgomery Scott.
He was also in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens as Unkar Plutt.
Deep Roy was in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi as ...
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How do these refer to Harrison Ford and Patrick Stewart?
Cowboy Crooner
Patrick Stewart recently released a (spoof) album of Cowboy and Western songs.
From the goodnewsnetwork website:
Billed in the video as “England’s ...
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In which Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes did Patrick Stewart not appear?
Per Memory Alpha:
Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard) and Jonathan Frakes
(Commander William T. Riker) are the only actors to appear in every
episode of the series.
That being said, ...
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Has one actor ever played two different characters from Marvel?
Ryan Reynolds plays both Deadpool and Hannibal King from Blade: Trinity.
Also (half-jokingly), Stan Lee has played a character in many of the Marvel movies dating back to X-Men in 2000. Some samples ...
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Besides those who did, did any other Star Trek cast members come close to leaving?
Worf
According to this article in TrekToday, Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf) nearly left the show after the second season, stating that his makeup was causing damage to his skin:
Dorn said that he was ...
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Which actor has played the same sci-fi character for the longest time?
Since Jones was only supplying a voice, it might be fair to mention the large number of voice actors who played the same role for many decades.
For example:
Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny from 1940 ...
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Did Daniel Craig appear in The Force Awakens?
According to this article in Entertainment Weekly by Chris Lee, the initial rumor was floating around since May 2015 and the author of that same piece confronted him earlier in the year during an ...
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Which characters have been recast within the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
There have been five definite recasts in the MCU thus far:
Hulk
Originally played by Edward Norton in The Incredible Hulk and then by Mark Ruffalo in subsequent MCU films.
War Machine
Originally ...
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Which actor appears as the most different species in Star Trek?
Vaughn Armstrong has 8:
Klingon: Korris, Korath, unnamed Captain
Cardassian: Danar, Seskal
Romulan: Telek R'Mor
Borg / Unknown: Two of Nine/Lansor
Vidiian - unnamed Captain
Hirogen - unnamed Alpha
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Which actor appears as the most different species in Star Trek?
Credit where credit's due, Praxis' answer on Is this Beverly Crusher? gives Patricia Tallman, with ten:
TNG 5x15 "Power Play" - Human
TNG 5x17 "The Outcast" - J'naii (as a stunt double)
TNG 6x18 "...
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How do these refer to Harrison Ford and Patrick Stewart?
Replicants in Blade Runner have a 4-year life span:
The "4-year lifespan" with regards to Harrison Ford refers to a long-running rumour / belief that Ford's ...
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Which character in Star Trek has been played by the most actors?
Dax (14 actors, 1 puppet)
After preliminary research the Trill Dax seems to have the most actors that played it.
Lela Dax
Tobin Dax
Emony Dax
Audrid Dax
Torias Dax
Joran Dax played by ...
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Did any Star Trek actor play both a Starfleet crewmember and one of the encountered aliens?
Michelle Forbes
Played Ro Laren of the Enterprise (8 appearances in Seasons 5-7):
And played Dara, an alien from Kaelon II, daughter Doctor Timicin in the TNG Episode, "Half a Life."
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