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Man of a Thousand Faces
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Most actors have a familiar energy that they bring to the screen, from the bubbly good-heartedness of Jennifer Aniston to the simmering intensity of Al Pacino. A few, however, bring a different energy to every character they play. They are chameleons, slipping fully into a variety of wildly dissimilar roles in which they are largely unrecognizable. They are masters of accents, alter their mannerisms for each character, and change their appearance so drastically that they seem almost like shape shifters. This type of performance is usually a requirement for films with one actor playing multiple roles. It is also at the heart of many Biopics. A hallmark of this trope is that seeing an actor's name in opening credits gives you no idea of what sort of character to expect. This may particularly apply to actors who make few public appearances, because the audience may have no conception of what they would be like out of character, making it more difficult to see the actor behind each performance. This trope is the polar opposite of I Am Not Leonard Nimoy and Typecasting. These actors aren't Playing Against Type; they would never let themselves get pinned down to a type to begin with. Also contrast with actors who have a generally well-known persona, but undergo the occasional Beauty Inversion. In voice acting, this is Man of a Thousand Voices. When the Man Of A Thousand Faces is a character, they're a Master of Disguise. |
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Tom Jones, Daddy Warbucks, Hercule Poirot, and the lawyer from Erin Brockovich? Yep, all Albert Finney. | |
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Paul Webster, the producer of Atonement, lampshades this in one of the movie's featurettes when he talks about McAvoy's skill as a performer. | |
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Pre-Batman Christian Bale was a pretty fair example of this trope. | |
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Not to mention Sweeney Todd (though this one arguably resembles Edward). | |
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He showcased his multifaceted acting talent in Split, where he embodied a character afflicted with dissociative identity disorder. From io9's review: | |
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Ian Hart is Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He's a bald assistant in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. He has a quite thick NE England accent as a working-class father in the 1930s in Liam. He puts on an American accent for a bit of undercover work in Sherlock Holmes and the Silk Stocking that sounds nothing like his own voice (some viewers didn't think it was him for the first several seconds). | |
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Fans of Epic Rap Battles of History would often praise EpicLloyd for being able to capture the exact appearances of the many, many characters he portray (e.g. Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, George R. R. Martin, etc.), even though most of these people don't look alike at all in real life. | |
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Richard Roxbrugh is known for creating unique voices for the parts he plays. It isn't immediately obvious that he's both Dracula in Van Helsing and the evil duke in Moulin Rouge!. BTW he's also played both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty (the latter admittedly in the non-canonical The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film). | |
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Both Dr. Strangelove and The Mouse That Roared were built around the fact that Peter Sellers was one. Sellers was such an accomplished chameleon that he once admitted in an interview that he no longer knew what his real accent was. | |
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