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It can be said that some roles take on a life of their own, separate from the actor that plays them. Fox Mulder lives more vividly in our collective imagination than David Duchovny; Leonard Nimoy was so eclipsed by his character in Star Trek that he titled his autobiographies I Am Not Spock and (once he'd made his peace with it) I Am Spock respectively. However, some actors not only allow the character this existence, they actively cultivate them as a person as real as any other person walking around. This is usually done in one of a couple of ways. The first way is to portray the individual as an entirely separate person while acknowledging the existence of the actor. The character may refer to the actor in the third person, or vice versa. The second version is to entirely subsume the "real" actor in the role. In this case, the actor is never mentioned by the character and the actor almost never appears in "public". The third method is when the actor acknowledges the character is "them", but somehow a "different" them. This is the least frequently seen, most subtle version, and the mechanism of this change in personality is not consistent, further making it more difficult to recognize. See also Adam Westing, where a celebrity's public persona is a self-parody, but still uses their real name. A sort of opposite of this trope where fictional characters act like their own actors is found in the trope Animated Actors. In a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, Alter Ego Acting isn't limited to the actors themselves; many of the fans, especially with sci-fi or fantasy series (like the Furry Fandom) use this trope to various levels in regards to their internet personas. In a reversal to the trope being applied to the actors, the third method is usually the most used, to the point where the fans refuse to respond to anything but their alter ego's name. Typically, though, the alter ego has enough personality quirks that only work within the confines of fantasy, the alter ego is unable to be fully emulated in the 'real world' during standard, off-line living and, thus, their real selves are markedly different, no matter how much they try. |
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An odd example lies on the show Parks and Recreation where the character Andy becomes "Bert Macklin, FBI agent" when approached with a situation that might involve some form of detective work. Played for Laughs with Pawnee radio hosts 'The Douche', who will make lewd jokes in public and follow them with "that was The Douche talking". |
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Gregory Helms, best known for his Superhero gimmick of "the Hurricane," would at times appear on WWE TV as a reporter under his own name. | |
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The 2017 revival of The Gong Show was hosted by Tommy Maitland, who is supposedly a British comedian and television presenter who came out of retirement to make his debut on American television, but is actually a character portrayed by Mike Myers. Myers made appearances on other shows promoting the show in character, other people associated with the revival maintain the fiction that Tommy Maitland is a real person, and Myers' name appears nowhere in the show's credits. This was eventually dropped for season 2; Myers publically admitted he was Maitland, and Myers' name was added to the credits. | |
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A really bizarre case was when "Kaufman" went auditioning for How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. The Dr. Seuss estate rejected him, but then Carrey broke out of that character and did a Grinch impersonation that got him the role. | |
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Linkara also refers to his on-screen personality as a "character", but at the same time, admits that he's just a slightly exaggerated version of himself. | |
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Conservative commentator Wally George ended up taking a similar path to Clay's. Normally kind and soft-spoken, he adopted a wildly-exaggerated, over-the-top angry persona for his talk show Hot Seat. When that became a hit, Wally kept the persona for most (if not all) of his further public appearances, behaving in the same blustery manner and saying the same anti-feminist and anti-gay stuff he'd say on Hot Seat, maintaining the act up until his death. Even though he continued to treat his guests cordially off-camera, Wally's refusal to break character publically meant that many Hot Seat fans…as well as people viewing his show today…took his comments at face value and made him out to be a much nastier, closed-minded guy than he really was. | |
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Paul Reubens tended to portray Pee-Wee Herman as a completely separate person, even billing the character as being played by "himself" in movie credits. He had never been interviewed as Paul Reubens until the film Mystery Men came out. Even then he managed to get through the first few minutes of the interview without saying a word, responding with nodding or shaking his head until forced to answer a non-yes/no question. | |
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The personalities on Cracked.com are starting to fall into a very labyrinthine version of this. Dan O'Brien is on record that his and Michael Swaim's characters in Agents of Cracked (or their similar but more toned-down counterparts on After Hours) are nothing like them. He also says that his column-writing persona and Swaim's Cracked TV/Does Not Compute character are also nothing like them either. | |
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Carroll Spinney, who portrays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, supposedly refused to do Sesame Street-related interviews out of character. Company policy at Jim Henson Co. was that the actors and puppeteers who play the various Muppet characters are not allowed to engage anyone in an on-camera interview. However both Henson and Spinney made separate appearances on the syndicated version of What's My Line?? However, Kevin Clash has been a guest on two different Food Network shows, complete with Elmo voice, and he's also made other appearances. Played with during the Muppet appearance on The West Wing. Nobody broke character or showed the puppeteers behind the puppets. This one varies. Sometimes, the appearance on the talk show/cooking show/other show has the characters appear and does its best to hide the puppeteer(s). Other times (more rarely, but mostly with Henson himself, Frank Oz, and the majority of guest Muppet performers at the Muppetfest convention in 2001), the puppeteer and puppet will co-exist, with the puppeteers talking about their character while still slipping back into character to talk with the host/moderator(s), any other characters making an appearance, or the puppeteer him/herself. (It's a little trippy, which is probably just how Henson liked it.). Lastly (and most rarely), it's just the puppeteer, which mostly happens on Muppet fansites (though even then it can slip into the second type). |
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A strange example of this: on Australian program Rove Live, Sacha was playing Brüno (2009) while promoting the film of the same name. When Rove did his usual "20 bucks in 20 seconds" questionnaire, his final question was for Bruno to tell Rove what he thought of a picture of Borat, to which Bruno replied that Borat was "an incredibly racist stereotype" and "he's played by Sacha Baron-whatever, right? Yeah, he really can't act". | |
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This was also done by Spinal Tap who perform in character (they are actually actors). Christopher Guest as well as many of the other writers and actors from Spinal Tap made a similar mockumentary called A Mighty Wind. They did one show in which the band from Mighty Wind opened for Spinal Tap. They were booed off the stage by fans who were either unaware or uncaring that they were the same people. | |
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TNA recently resurrected this aspect of Mick Foley's character, as Mick "interviewed" Cactus Jack; as the mock interview went on, Cactus took on a life of his own, accusing Foley of being a craven sellout cashing in on the fame that Cactus had earned by sacrificing their shared body, something Foley would never have done if it were up to him. | |
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The host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is the real Stephen Colbert, but a recurring character is "conservative pundit Stephen Colbert", played by Stephen Colbert and with the same mannerisms as the host of The Colbert Report (see type 3)... but who isn't the host of that show, since that character is owned by Comedy Central. Instead, he's his "twin cousin". | |
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In Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown, Tom always plays the Beef Brothers round as Fanshawe Standon. | |
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In-character as The Nostalgia Critic, Doug Walker uses his real name, but the Critic's persona, opinions, and backstory are wholly fictional. Though The Nostalgia Critic may have started as a Type 3, the argument could be made that he has moved to Type 1 over time. The Nostalgia Critic has interacted with Doug several times as a separate entity and knows himself to be a character, though distinct from Doug as actor/writer and it is set up in 'To Boldly Flee' that The Nostalgia Critic has grown beyond what Doug had intended. This has led to an occasion where the Critic made various comments about a child actress's acting ability, only for fans of the Critic to email said actress that they agreed with the Critic. Holly (TGWTG webmistress) then had to email her personally to explain that the Critic is just a character and it wasn't really Doug's opinion. Walker will usually go into some detail in commentaries about his conception of the character and how he has developed over time; a lot of what seems natural and spontaneous on-screen is actually very deliberately planned out. Many internet critics get flack from angry fans random passers-by who think they agree with their characters about everything. The Angry Video Game Nerd gets a steady flow of hate mail for his first video, in which he bashed a genuinely good game for fun. Linkara also refers to his on-screen personality as a "character", but at the same time, admits that he's just a slightly exaggerated version of himself. When addressing complaints of how she treats Nella, Lindsay has also commented that The Nostalgia Chick is just a character and so is BFF Nella. In fact, if you want to see how they really are together, just check out their usually-squeeful conversations on Twitter. The complaints are parodied in her second "Thanks For The Feedback!" video, where she claims that BFF Nella remains her friend despite the way she treats her because the Chick pays her to do so, showing an Alternative Character Interpretation during their first meeting (Nella: "I can see I've got my work cut out for me") and their contract renewal, where Nella is professional and very much in charge, while the Chick meekly avoids meeting her gaze. But averted by The Spoony One, whom everyone has confirmed to be exactly the same (with a couple obvious exceptions) in Real Life as he is on camera. There is little functional difference between "Spoony" and Noah Antwiler. Noah himself has said that this is the case but confessed that he's not as good at separating himself from the Spoony persona as Walker is with Nostalgia Critic or James Rolfe is with the Angry Video Game Nerd. This has resulted in some backlash, as seen in his Final Fantasy X review where Spoony angrily calls for people to murder fans of the game and forced Noah to do some backtracking and apologizing when people believed that he felt the same way in real life. Todd in the Shadows stated that "I may exaggerate my anger a little, but I'm not a good enough actor to adopt a different persona." There is still a difference between Todd Nathanson and Todd In The Shadows, as the real Todd is friendly with the real cast, making him happy, romantic and positive about life, while the character is still a mopey, pathetic, rather creepy Basement-Dweller who harbors a crush on Lupa and acts obnoxious to the rest of TGWTG. Lupa is a caricature of Allison herself, a super-patriot who loves sophomoric humor. The "character" has been retired since TGWTG folded. The fact that Brad Jones does reviews and other shows on both TGWTG and his own site as himself instead of his Cinema Snob character probably makes his real self a bit more visible than other contributors who review as exaggerated "characters". In an interview, Brad makes clear that when the Snob is being analytical instead of pretentious and cynical, it's his thoughts "in a snarkier and shoutier way", as the Midnight Screenings show how he's "pretty chill and laid-back in real life." At most, the Snob side emerges in real life when Brad gets really angry at a movie (i.e. Old-Fashioned). Sarah Wilson admitted that Pushing Up Roses is happier and more childish than herself. In-Universe, Maven of the Eventide is pretty much Elisa Hansen's character indulging her pretentious vampire fangirl side. Welshy even asked her "What facet of your character am I actually addressing right now?" |
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The presenters of Top Gear (UK) and The Grand Tour are basically Flanderized versions of their real-life personas. The real Jeremy Clarkson is not as boorish, smug, and insensitive as he appears, Richard Hammond is far from stupid and not nearly as risk-taking, and James May is quite modern in outlook and not nearly as fussy as the shows make him out to be. Top Gear tended to blur the line more, especially as in the early days when the presenters had yet to fully develop their style; perhaps, as a result, many have noticed The Grand Tour playing up to the cartoonish personas more. | |
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For the most part, the main character of TV Trash, Chris "Rowdy Reviewer" Moore, seems to be just a snarkier version of the real-life Chris Moore. | |
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Jane Turner and Gina Riley rarely appear out of character as Kath & Kim. | |
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However both Henson and Spinney made separate appearances on the syndicated version of What's My Line?? However, Kevin Clash has been a guest on two different Food Network shows, complete with Elmo voice, and he's also made other appearances. |
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YouTuber JoCat has JoCrap, the host of his A Crap Guide series, an aggressive and crass Caustic Critic. Jo himself has regularly made it clear that him and JoCrap are not one and the same, and many episodes of A Crap Guide portray the two as separate people. | |
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Related: sometimes avatars in the online virtual reality Second Life refer to their "typists" (or similar terms), making a distinction between the character and the human playing him/her/it: e.g. "Sorry I have to go, but my typist is making me go to bed." The consistency with which this convention is applied varies greatly, with some always maintaining character and others using it as an occasional joke. The same is true of online role-playing in general, where those who use MUCKs, MMORPGs, and other real-time roleplay programs (or just roleplay through online messengers) will speak in-character of their "player" needing to leave/eat/go to the bathroom/sleep. This can be Played for Laughs through a bit of Black Comedy, as when the character really would like to continue but can't, so threatens the "player" for making them have to leave. |
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A lot of anniversary specials for cartoon characters (particularly the Warner Bros. characters) will portray them as actual people, even when interviews are done with the directors, animators, and voice actors, none of whom bother to continue with the charade (which make the proceedings all the more confusing). They even go as far as to have celebrities give anecdotes about occasions where Bugs, Daffy, and the rest worked with them or met their families. | |
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Daniel Handler shows up at "Lemony Snicket's" book signings as a representative of Mr. Snicket, or sometimes "Mr. Snicket's Handler", and tells fans that the author was detained by some unfortunate accident. This is a slight variation since while Handler writes under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, he never "plays" Snicket in public. He would occasionally give an interview where he acknowledged Snicket's fictionality, making him a type 3 as well. This trope was inverted, subverted, and played with 6 ways from Sunday on the DVD commentary, featuring Handler in character as Snicket, with director Brad Silberling. Silberling tries to claim that Jim Carrey was replaced by the real Count Olaf, and Snicket plays along at first. After a while, he becomes bored and begins accusing Silberling of lying to him. So we have the real author playing his fictional creation critiquing a real actor under fake circumstances while the real director claims that his real film features the fictional author's fictional character for real. |
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In Some Jerk with a Camera, the Jerk is at least somewhat fictional, but he has been referred to as "Tony Goldmark", and takes credit for pre-Jerk works of Tony's. | |
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Former professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has stated that "The Rock" is his normal personality "with the volume turned way up." | |
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In Hannah Montana, teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus plays Miley Stewart and her - Stewart's, not Cyrus' - Secret Identity, teen pop sensation Hannah Montana. This is further complicated by Cyrus performing in Real Life concerts as both herself and as Hannah Montana. Sometimes in the same concert. In truth, Miley (Cyrus, that is) only performed as both Hannah and herself between 2006 and early 2008. She does take on a wilder, more extroverted "wild" persona live, though, especially when wearing outrageous costumes and wardrobes. |
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Played with during the Muppet appearance on The West Wing. Nobody broke character or showed the puppeteers behind the puppets. | |
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Many internet critics get flack from angry fans random passers-by who think they agree with their characters about everything. The Angry Video Game Nerd gets a steady flow of hate mail for his first video, in which he bashed a genuinely good game for fun. | |
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When addressing complaints of how she treats Nella, Lindsay has also commented that The Nostalgia Chick is just a character and so is BFF Nella. In fact, if you want to see how they really are together, just check out their usually-squeeful conversations on Twitter. The complaints are parodied in her second "Thanks For The Feedback!" video, where she claims that BFF Nella remains her friend despite the way she treats her because the Chick pays her to do so, showing an Alternative Character Interpretation during their first meeting (Nella: "I can see I've got my work cut out for me") and their contract renewal, where Nella is professional and very much in charge, while the Chick meekly avoids meeting her gaze. But averted by The Spoony One, whom everyone has confirmed to be exactly the same (with a couple obvious exceptions) in Real Life as he is on camera. There is little functional difference between "Spoony" and Noah Antwiler. Noah himself has said that this is the case but confessed that he's not as good at separating himself from the Spoony persona as Walker is with Nostalgia Critic or James Rolfe is with the Angry Video Game Nerd. This has resulted in some backlash, as seen in his Final Fantasy X review where Spoony angrily calls for people to murder fans of the game and forced Noah to do some backtracking and apologizing when people believed that he felt the same way in real life. |
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The major cast of Trailer Park Boys appear in character almost constantly, even including "behind the scenes" commentary on the DVD for the show. | |
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PC Music is an online label/art collective which is constantly surrounded by an air of ambiguous hyperreality, with most members playing to this to some extent. Likely the biggest case of this is GFOTY ("Girlfriend of the Year", aka Polly-Louisa Salmon), whose entire persona is built on evoking a comically hedonistic and whacked-out Hard-Drinking Party Girl, maintaining character not just in her music, but on her social media presence in general and even in interviews with reputable publishers, making it really hard to define where GFOTY the character and GFOTY the artist begin and end. | |
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Likewise, the Australian rock-band TISM made a point of never appearing (on stage or for interviews) without wearing some sort of identity-concealing outfit and referred to each other only by their stage names (such as Ron Hitler-Barassi and Humphrey B. Flaubert). | |
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Sacha Baron-Cohen attempts to portray his various characters as real people completely separate from himself. He has sometimes referred to himself as a separate person while in character. Responding to critics of his film Borat, he assumed the character of Borat to join in on the criticism, leveling anti-Semitic slurs against himself. When promoting his films, he usually insists on appearing in-character. A strange example of this: on Australian program Rove Live, Sacha was playing Brüno (2009) while promoting the film of the same name. When Rove did his usual "20 bucks in 20 seconds" questionnaire, his final question was for Bruno to tell Rove what he thought of a picture of Borat, to which Bruno replied that Borat was "an incredibly racist stereotype" and "he's played by Sacha Baron-whatever, right? Yeah, he really can't act". |
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Anthony Fantano of the music review The Needle Drop has a slightly offbeat silly "roommate" Cal Chuchesta, that pops up time to time and sometimes gets his own reviews. Even in Anthony's more frank and candid videos, he always asserts that Cal is a completely different person. | |
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The one pure example of this at the Eurovision Song Contest was with Iceland's Silvia Night. Night, portrayed by �gústa Eva Erlendsdóttir (significantly harder to roll off the tongue), was a popular television character who behaved like a pampered Alpha Bitch. She didn't break character for the entirety of her time in the 2006 contest, verbally abusing contest workers, insulting the other contestants, and cursing like a sailor. Despite the reassurances from local officials that it was only a character, the poor behavior was not treated kindly, and she was eliminated during the semi-finals (leading to a much-viewed tirade). Interestingly, a sorta-example of this, Finland's Lordi, kept their monster makeup on the whole time and wound up winning (although their monstrous appearance didn't dictate their behavior). Iceland provided another example with anti-capitalist electro-thrash BDSM group Hatari! in 2019. The members of Hatari have relatively public identities outside of Eurovision (one is a playwright, the other the son of a politician), but for all Eurovision-related interviews and appearances during the show, they were off-the-wall provocateurs in line with their intense image (particularly by testing the EBU's tolerance for political content with frequent references to Palestine's conflict with host country Israel). |
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Noah himself has said that this is the case but confessed that he's not as good at separating himself from the Spoony persona as Walker is with Nostalgia Critic or James Rolfe is with the Angry Video Game Nerd. This has resulted in some backlash, as seen in his Final Fantasy X review where Spoony angrily calls for people to murder fans of the game and forced Noah to do some backtracking and apologizing when people believed that he felt the same way in real life. | |
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Todd in the Shadows stated that "I may exaggerate my anger a little, but I'm not a good enough actor to adopt a different persona." There is still a difference between Todd Nathanson and Todd In The Shadows, as the real Todd is friendly with the real cast, making him happy, romantic and positive about life, while the character is still a mopey, pathetic, rather creepy Basement-Dweller who harbors a crush on Lupa and acts obnoxious to the rest of TGWTG. | |
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The members of Finnish heavy metal band Lordi make all of their public appearances in the elaborate monster costumes they wear onstage and have gone to unusual lengths to keep their real names secret from the public. (Indeed, the band's first demo video has never been released to the public because it shows the singer, "Mr. Lordi", with no mask.) When a gossip magazine showed a picture of Lordi without his mask (on the cover, no less), it created a massive backlash and tens of thousands of fans signing a petition of boycotting the magazine, eventually resulting in a public apology from it. Part of this is because all the members of the band are very private people, actually working in a normal job as well as being a monster rocker or both. Amen, for instance, is a web designer, and at least one of the members is a music teacher. |
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Prior to mainstream fame, Sia said: "A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me." The mania she describes seems to just be a quirkier version of herself, which she later regretted creating due to her inability to maintain it while suffering from depression. Post-fame, Sia remains almost completely silent at shows (except for singing). | |
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In ContraPoints, the "Contra" that hosts the show is basically Natalie Wynn putting on a much louder personality than she has in real life; as her interviews and debates with other people have shown, her natural demeanor is more reserved and shy. | |
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