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The Danza

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A character whose name is clearly taken from the performer portraying them. This shows up on TV a lot in shows designed as a vehicle for an actor's fame. By lending their name to the fictional character, there's some familiarity created already. The most obvious way to spot this is to see if the title of the show incorporates the lead actor's name, but not always. This seemed to hit its peak in the sitcoms of the late eighties and early nineties. A good majority of sitcoms were based on a stand-up comedian's routine (Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr) and many of these comics already were developing fanbases. Creating the Danza was a way to leverage their fame as a comic into success as an actor.
Another common reason for doing this is that if an actor is famous enough, people will always refer to them by their real name even when discussing them as a fictional character (unless, of course, the character they are portraying is even more iconic, with the exception of said character being played by different actors and/or in multiple media). To avoid the annoyance or awkwardness of this character being constantly referred to as "[Famous name's] character", it's often best to just give them the same first name.
Sometimes this is used for child actors, to make things a little less confusing around the set. This change can happen very late in the production when during shooting it's found that the (very young) child actor does not grasp the concept of a character name different from their real name at all: to give an example, the character name of a toddler actress called Ava being changed to Ava from the originally planned Elizabeth when young Ava doesn't respond or react to Elizabeth.
Also sometimes used for token ethnic minority characters, where it seemed that the program's staff were frightened to think up an original name and just used the name of the actor. In rare cases, it's an accident — the actor chosen to play the character just happened to share a name with the character.
From a directing point of view, using this trope also reduces the number of filming errors, since the actors all go by their real name (or at least, real first name), so the very real (and surprisingly common) mistake of accidentally addressing their colleagues by their real name instead of their character's name is ruled out, cutting down the need of retakes. This was the main advantage of the trope back in the day when film (which cannot be reused and have to be disposed of or archived if a mistake was made) was the main recording medium and has since been lessened with the advent of erasable magnetic media and later, digital. However, it does still save time and effort with the minimization of retakes.
It's not a Danza if the character already has the name from an adaptation; in such a case the character is not being named for the actor.
Additionally, it's not The Danza if a performer uses their real first name as part of a Stage Name.
Not to be confused with an actor or celebrity actually playing themselves. That's As Himself (if they're a main character) or Special Guest (if they show up for a single episode). How to differentiate? Is Bob the Actor playing Bob the Actor? Or does he just happen to be playing a character that's also named Bob? The second one is The Danza.
Compare Character as Himself, Adam Westing, Ink-Suit Actor. See also Author Avatar. If The Danza is the writer, then it may be Write Who You Know as well as Author Avatar.
Named for Tony Danza, whose frequent portrayal of people named Tony (see Taxi and Who's the Boss?) has made him the butt of a few jokes, for example, this one for April Fools Day from Teevee.org. See this article at IMDB for another list.
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In Sengoku Basara, Saika Magoichi's real name is revealed to be Sayaka. In the original Japanese, she is voiced by Sayaka Ohara.
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Sam in The Thick of It is played by Samantha Harrington; it's possible that the character is named after the actress since this isn't uncommon in supporting roles on semi-improvised shows.
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Happy Days had Al Molinaro as Al Delvecchio and Marion Ross as Marion Cunningham.
In an episode arc Heather O'Rourke as Heather Pfizer.
And one episode Tammy O'Rourke as Tammy.
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In Brazilian film The Elite Squad André Ramiro plays André Matias (though the first name rarely shows up due to Last-Name Basis). Captain Matias returns in the sequel, keeping the trope running.
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Nicole and Brianna Garcia-Colace as The Bella Twins, Nikki and Brie.
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Adventure Time has a horse named James Baxter, who is not only voiced by James Baxter but animated by him as well.
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Interesting variation in Everybody Hates Chris – Chris Rock narrates As Himself, while the young Chris Rock is played by Tyler James Williams.
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In Everything or Nothing, R&B singer Mýa, in addition to singing the theme song, voiced NSA double-agent Mya Starling.
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In Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee plays a character named "Mr. Lee".
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Women of the Movement has Dan Byrd as Dan Wakefield.
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Katharine Ringgold as Kathy the Chickenfish from Finding Nemo.
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Control Z: Luis is played by Luis Cariel.
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In many episodes of El Chapulín Colorado, the supporting cast is named after the actors who play them: therefore, we have Carlos Villagrán as Carlos, Ramón Valdés as Ramón, Rubén Aguirre as Rubén and so on. Roberto Gomez Bolaños (a.k.a. Chespirito) once explained he did this to allow the actors to form a bond with their characters (even though they were mostly just innocent bystanders). Conversely, in El Chavo del ocho, Doña Florinda, Don Ramón and Doña Nieves are respectively played by Florinda Meza, Ramón Valdés and Maria Antonieta de las Nieves.
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Megumi Mori as Megumi Misaki in Choujuu Sentai Liveman
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In The Pretender, Andrea Parker plays female lead character Miss Parker, but this is apparently a genuine coincidence. On the other hand, her mooks are first-name Danzas (with no last name) to a man, apparently as an acknowledgement that it's not worth the effort of giving them real names.
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Brittany Baker wrestles as Dr. Britt Baker DMD. And uses "Dr." and "DMD" outside the ring as well, since she's an actual practicing dentist.
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Midwinter Night's Dream stars Lazar Ristovski, Jasna Žalica, and Jovana Mitić as Lazar, Jasna, and Jovana.
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In the English dub of Project Blue Earth SOS, Maggie is voiced by Maggie Flecknoe.
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The Archer: Michael Grant Terry plays Michael Patrice.
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Cody Runnels as Cody Rhodes
Before he became Goldust (itself an example because of the "dust"), Dustin Runnels wrestled as Dustin Rhodes.
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The Scottish series Rab C. Nesbitt has an odd Rule63-ish variant with David Tennant as the lovely transwoman barmaid, Davina.
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Burnt by the Sun has Nadezhda "Nadya" Mikhalkova, the real-life daughter of director and lead actor Nikita Mikhalkov, as Nadya Kotova.
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Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat from The Aristocats. The character was originally named Satchmo Cat and intended to be voiced by Louis Armstrong.
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Sheep in the Big City has a variant with the show's narrator Ben Plotz, whose name rhymes with that of his voice actor Ken Schatz.
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Before becoming Peyton Royce, Cassie McIntosh wrestled as KC Cassidy. Following her WWE release in 2021, she started going by Cassie Lee.
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Pretty much the whole band as fictional versions of themselves in The Naked Brothers Band. The one exception is Allie DiMeco, who plays Rosalina.
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One of the voice actors to play Marshall in PAW Patrol is named Kingsley Marshall.
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In the Greek dub of Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, Thanos is voiced by Christos Thanos.
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Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah as Kofi Kingston
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Kevin Steen became an indie darling under his real name. He now competes in WWE under the name Kevin Owens.
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Michael Shawn Hickenbottom as Shawn Michaels
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On Gilmore Girls, Sookie's husband Jackson is played by Jackson Douglas. His real-life girlfriend almost played Sookie.
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The Ghost and Molly McGee:
Kenny Star is voiced by Tom Kenny.
In the Hungarian dub, Andrea Davenport is voiced by Andrea Laudon.
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The Cosby Show also had an episode called "The Slumber Party" where Dana, Kyle, Peter, Naoka, Desiree and Sing are actually named after the actors and actresses they were played by.
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Spies Are Forever: Curt Mega as Agent Curt Mega.
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The Father stars Anthony Hopkins as Anthony. He was called André in the original stage play, but director Florian Zeller renamed the character to entice him.
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In Imaginaerum, main character Thomas Whitman is played by Tuomas Holopainen, and his friend and former bandmate Ann is played by Tuomas' real-life friend and now former bandmate Anette Olzon.
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Coupling has a variant: characters Steve and Susan share the names of writer Steven Moffat and producer Sue Vertue, on whom they're loosely modeled.
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Best of Friends (1963) starred Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker as Charles and Hylda, with Sheena Marshe in a recurring role as Sheena.
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Andrew "Drew" Galloway as Drew McIntyre in WWE. (He used his real name in TNA.)
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Subverted in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, with two gay lovers with the name of one being a play on the name of the actor playing another: Bobby Long played by Brandon Routh and Brandon St. Randy played by Justin Long.
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Zabriskie Point: lead characters Mark and Daria (Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin), and also supporting character Kathleen (Kathleen Cleaver).
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In-Universe: In BoJack Horseman, Mr Peanutbutter's sitcom, Mr Peanutbutter's House, uses the actor's real name.
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A Year at the Top stars Greg Evigan and Paul Shaffer as struggling musicians Greg and Paul.
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Alias had Michael Vaughn (played by Michael Vartan) and Rachel Gibson (played by Rachel Nichols).
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CSI: NY:
Also not a main character, but they briefly had a lab rat named Chad Willingham played by Chad Lindberg.
In the episode, "Right Next Door", Stella's neighbor is a boy called Austin Tanner who is played by a young actor named Austin Whitlock.
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Decoy:
In "Necklace of Glass", Casey Jones, played by Beverly Garland, goes undercover as the socialite Beverly Cazwell.
Michele Holland from "Night of Fire" is played by Betty Lou Holland.
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Perry Satullo as Perry Saturn
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In Police Quest 4: Open Season, the actress who played Barbie Cann was named Barbara Shannon ("Barbie" is a nickname for Barbara).
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Dr. Lisa Cuddy from House was played by actress Lisa Edelstein.
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In the '70s British spy serial Callan (starring Edward Woodward, later the suspiciously similar McCall in The Equalizer) the character Liz was played by Lisa Langdon. For about half the four-season run, she was credited only as "Hunter's Secretary".
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Alan the cab driver is played by Alan George in Skins.
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Subverted in Suits with the actress then known as Rachel Meghan Markle. Her character's name was Rachel, but she went by Meghan in real life.
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Cheers:
Harry Anderson as "Harry the Hat". Anderson had used "Harry the Hat" as a stage name for years before appearing on TV, when he was a stage magician and real-life con man, making it in some ways even more of a Danza than usual.
Several background characters were named after their actors, such as Paul Wilson as Paul, Paul Vaughn as a different Paul, Thomas Babson as Tom, Phil Perlman as Phil, etc.
In one episode, Woody is cast in Our Town and has this to say of his costar: "The girl who's playing Emily is a terrific actress. I mean, actually, she's got kind of an advantage because her real name is Emily. She don't even have to learn to answer to a different name."
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In an episode of Shake it Up, Larry Miller plays the character Larry Diller.
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In Motorcity, the leader of the Mama's Boys gang Junior, is voiced by Richard Christy Jr.
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A few Disney animated features have this trope as well, including:
In The Three Caballeros, Professor Holloway is voiced by Sterling Holloway, of course.
Peggy Lee as Peg from Lady and the Tramp.
Louis Prima as King Louie from The Jungle Book (1967). Disney originally intended to cast Louis Armstrong for the role until they realized the Unfortunate Implications of casting a black man as an ape and chose Prima (who was Italian-American) instead, who coincidentally also fit this trope.
Scatman Crothers as Scat Cat from The Aristocats. The character was originally named Satchmo Cat and intended to be voiced by Louis Armstrong.
Susan Hegarty as the Rescue Lady from Lilo & Stitch. While her name is not verbally mentioned, it does appear on Lilo's adoption paper for Stitch.
Annette Bening and Catherine O'Hara, respectively as Anda and Kata the female moose from Brother Bear 2.
Bolt provides a variation: the titular dog stars in the Bolt TV show, where he plays (or more accurately, has been convinced he is) a superpowered dog named Bolt. His owner, who's adopted Bolt some time before the show and who plays Penny in the same show, is another variant: while her real name is never spoken by any humans outside the show, the show uses Enforced Method Acting to convince Bolt everything in the show is real, so her real name is probably also Penny.
An unusual and ingenious case is with marine Markowski in the Polish dub version of Wreck-It Ralph: Markowski is voiced by the lead singer of the legendary rock band named Perfect. The real name of the singer is Grzegorz Markowski!
Zootopia has Bonnie Hopps played by Bonnie Hunt.
In the Polish dub of Chicken Little Melvin and Tina are renamed Piotruś and Edytka after their voice actors, Piotr Machalica and Edyta Olszówka.
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Sarah and Laura Silverman in The Sarah Silverman Program.
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Much of the movies in the Carry On... Series had characters that had the same name as the actors. The actor that got this the most was Sid James, who had six characters named "Sid". Carry On Camping, meanwhile, had the most with Sid Boggle, Joan Fussey, Bernie Lugg, Charlie Muggins, Babs, and Dr. Kenneth Soaper (the latter being confirmed by Word of God). Additionally, Jim Tanner (played by Julian Holloway) was intended to played by Jim Dale.
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On the revival of Dallas, Judith Light played Judith Brown Ryland and Emma Bell played Emma Brown.
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PWG wrestler Brian Bullard as Brian Cage
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This trope applies to everyone appearing in the first Paranormal Activity (later films ditched this in favor of different names).
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Charlie on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and to a lesser extent Mac. When Glenn Howerton was asked about his character being named Dennis, he remarked on how it seemed like a good idea and has proven so far to have been a good decision. Also, Artemis is played by Artemis Pebdani.
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The late Sherri Schrull as Sherri Martel
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Keiko Nakano as Bull Nakano
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The Simpsons:
Ray Romano voices a character named Ray Magini in the episode "Don't Fear the Roofer". His name turns out to subvert Significant Anagram as everyone but Homer simply missed seeing him due to a series of increasingly improbable circumstances.
John Waters voices a character named John (though with no surname given) in the earlier episode "Homer's Phobia". (Amusingly, Homer befriends both of these characters in their respective appearances only to renounce those relationships.)
And Carice van Houten supplies the voice of Milhouse's cousin Annika Van Houten in "Let's Go Fly A Coot."
Lunchlady Doris was originally voiced by script supervisor Doris Grau. Grau also voiced Doris Grossman, Jay Sherman's makeup lady on The Critic.
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''Guardian Angels has Yves Rénier as Yvon Radmilo.
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She did it again with her second sitcom, Malibu Country.
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Akahori Gedou Hour Lovege has Tomokazu Seki starring as himself. Mostly.
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Aftershock: Ariel was played by Ariel Levy.
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Un gars, une fille ("A Guy, A Girl")'s lead characters Guy and Sylvie are played by Guy A. Lepage and Sylvie Léonard.
The French-French version had Jean and Alex played by Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy.
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Parks and Recreation writer, Michael Schur, revealed that Aubrey Plaza's character, April Ludgate, was initially written as a character named Aubrey.
Ann's amazing lawyer friend Justin was played by Justin Theroux.
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Mocked on Extras where (both In-Universe and Out-) Celebrity Cameo Keith Chegwin's character has his name changed to Keith after the actor repeatedly fails to comprehend that the character has a different name to him.
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The webseries Echo Chamber features characters named Tom, Zack, and Dana. They are played by Tom Pike, Zack Wallnau, and Dana Shaw.
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The cast of Godspell, sans Jesus and John/Judas, are named after the actors who portrayed them in the original cast. Newer performances of this show often change character names to match their own casts.
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Playboy Playmate Julie McCullough as Mike's girlfriend Julie Costello on Growing Pains in the 1989-1990 season.
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 Playboy
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In Titanic, the modern-time crew (aside from Brock Lovett, played by Bill Paxton) are named after the actors portraying them, e.g. Lewis Bodine is played by Lewis Abernathy. The crew in question is also the real-life crew of the ship.
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All the main characters from The Wrong Guys. In case you haven't seen it (quite likely) Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye and Tim Thomerson play lifelong friends and former Boy Scouts called... Louie, Richard, Belz, Franklyn and Tim.
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Horrible Histories had a sketch (based on Abigail's Party) in which Laurence Rickard played a character named Laurence.
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A 2018 fan film based on Uncharted cast Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake. But the character was already named that in the games, so it's either a coincidence or the makers of the film were attracted to Fillion due to him also being named Nathan.
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His character's name in Delta Farce? Larry.
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In the Cool Kids Table game The Wreck, Alan plays the AI of the game named ALAN.
In Homeward Bound 4, Jake, Josh, and Shannon all play animals named Jake, Josh, and Shannon.
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Kopelman from True Jackson, VP is played by Executive Producer Dan Kopelman.
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The performers in the band The Mechanisms took on characters during their performances rather than perform as themselves, but Jonathan Sims (Jonny D'Ville) and Tim Ledsam (Gunpowder Tim) used their real first names as their characters' names.
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The inaugural The Marine film had two; John Cena as the titular protagonist John Triton and Manu Bennett as Elite Mook Bennett.
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In Heroes, Kimiko Nakamura, Hiro's sister, is played by Saemi Nakamura. This is probably an unintentional example, as Kimiko is a minor character who was probably given her surname before the casting call went out.
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Barry Stuart-Hargreaves from Hi-de-Hi! was played by Barry Howard.
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Lucina Reacts: Male Morgan's preferred name is Todd. In the original game, he's voiced by Todd Haberkorn.
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On Broad City, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer play Abbi Abrams and Ilana Wexler.
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The Rookie (2018): Katy O'Brian played LAPD officer Katie Barnes in "New Blood".
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An unusual and ingenious case is with marine Markowski in the Polish dub version of Wreck-It Ralph: Markowski is voiced by the lead singer of the legendary rock band named Perfect. The real name of the singer is Grzegorz Markowski!
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Marie-Antoinette (2022) has Louis Cunningham (Lord Corning in Bridgerton) as the Dauphin Louis of France. Cunningham is actually a descendant of Louis XIV, amusingly enough.
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Fear the Walking Dead: Alycia Debnam-Carey plays Alicia.
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Christina Moore as Christina Ross in Jessie.
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Joseph Bonsignore as Joey Styles
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Tenjho Tenge has Soichiro Hoshi as Soichiro Nagi.
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Inspector Blunder has Michel Colucci (Coluche) as Michel Clément.
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In Julius Jr., Sheryl Crow appears as Sheryl Butterflow in one episode.
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Roswell, New Mexico: Michael Vlamis plays Michael Guerin.
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In-universe example: in Muppet Treasure Island, Mr. Arrow's first namenote Which was unknown in the original book. is given as Samuel - and he's "played" by Sam the Eagle. Also, Billy Bones is played by Billy Connolly.
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Betty Garrett as Betty Barrett in Neptune's Daughter. This single-letter difference might have been to not mislead audiences into thinking that Eve Barrett (Esther Williams) was her sister in Real Life as well as in the movie.
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The Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins gives the name of the unnamed Starfleet captain played by Madge Sinclair in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as Madge Sinclair-Alexander (the "Alexander" coming from the Voyage Home Novelization.)
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The Frontier had Mike BurnFire voicing a trader named Burns.
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Two Mr. Show sketches have all the characters in the sketch share the names with their actors. The "Coupon: The Movie" sketch (during the scene with the movie execs) has David, Bob, Tom, Jill, Paul, and Jay (John Ennis is not referred to by name). The "Intervention" sketch, three seasons later, hasnote all of which are the same actors, save Tom and Jay for Becky, being sketch comedy David, Bob, John, Jill, Paul, and Becky.
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In House of Cards (US), prostitute Rachel Posner is played by Rachel Brosnahan.
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Lance Evers as Lance Storm
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Craig Cackowski plays Officer Cackowski in a few episodes of Community.
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Nicola Glencross as Nikki Storm, Nikki Cross, and Nikki A.S.H.
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Flynt Coal from RWBY was voiced by rapper Flynt Flossy. This one's coincidental, as the character's name predates the show.
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Vikings: Eric Johnson as Erik Thorvaldsson.
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Before becoming Emma, Tenille Dashwood wrestled as Tenille Tayla and Tenille Williams.
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In Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Principal Larry is voiced by Larry Wilmore.
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Ettore Ewen as Big E. Langston (who later dropped "Langston")
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The PBS series The Puzzle Place combines this with Sdrawkcab Name. One of the characters is named "Leon MacNeal", and is played by Noel MacNeal.
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In The King of Comedy, Jerry Lewis plays a character named Jerry Langford. The character was named Robert Langford in the script, and Lewis suggested the change upon learning that they would be filming scenes in the streets of New York City; Lewis' character is supposed to be a celebrity in-universe, so if any passers-by recognized him and shouted "Jerry!" during a scene, they could just Throw It In! instead of having to do another take.
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In Yellow Submarine, John Clive was the voice of John Lennon. There was a Paul in the voice credits (Paul Angelis), but he didn't voice McCartney. He was Ringo and George while Geoffrey Hughes was Paul.
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One of the most well-known versions of the Bozo the Clown franchise is the series made in Chicago. Here, Norbert "Ned" Locke played the show's MC Ringmaster Ned for many, many years (from 1961 to 1976 according to The Other Wiki).
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Jimmie (2008) has Michael Neuenschwander as Jimmie's father Michael Berger.
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In the 1977 version of Fun with Dick and Jane, Jane Fonda plays Jane Harper.
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The character-tagging phenomenon began in the Dream SMP fandom. It started during the Exile Arc, to prevent people outside the fandom from assuming Dream the content creator is a child abuser like his roleplay character counterpart. However, the full names of the characters are usually distinct from those of the content creators, as the characters' full names are typically based on their screen names and/or any nicknames they accumulated, e.g. Philza Minecraft being portrayed by Philip Watson.
Speaking of Phil specifically, in the spin-off series Tales From the SMP episode "The Pit", there is a character named Watson, who is evidently named after Philza, who played him and has 'Watson' as his surname in real life (as stated above).
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When the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip wanted to use the Time Lord General from "Hell Bent" (played first by Ken Bones, and then by T'Nia Miller), they asked Steven Moffat, as her creator, to provide a name. He came up with "Kenossium", derived from "Ken" + "ossium", the Latin word for "bones".
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Jam and Jerusalem: Freya and Beattie Edmondson as Freya and Beattie Martin.
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As an in-joke, many of the characters in the Tenchi Muyo! Spin-Off Pretty Sammy have the same last name as their voice actors.
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What We Do in the Shadows (2019): The Vampiric Council is mostly comprised of first name Danzas of famous actors who have played vampires. Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) as Tilda, Paul Reubens (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Paul, Danny Trejo (From Dusk Till Dawn) as Danny, Evan Rachel Wood (True Blood) as Evan, and Wesley Snipes (Blade) by Skype as half-vampire daywalker Wesley. Members Robert, Keifer, Tom and Brad did not turn up.
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Notable aversion in the English dub of Tales of Vesperia, with the main character Yuri Lowell not being played by veteran Tales voice actor Yuri Lowenthal. The actual voice actor, Troy Baker, did get some joke mileage out of this one though: "How bad is it when they start naming characters after voice actors? 'I wanna read for this guy, what's his name?' 'Er...Vic Migna.'"
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In GunBuster, Noriko Takaya was voiced by Noriko Hidaka. Many of the characters, in fact, were named after people involved in the production.
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In yet another coincidental one in the dub of Gundam 00 President Brian Stegmeyer is voiced (among other minor roles) by Brian Drummond. Also, rivals Kati Mannequin and Leesa Kujoh (aka Sumeragi Lee Noriega) are voiced by Cathy Weseluck and Lisa Ann Beley respectively.
And before Kati Mannequin, Cathy Weseluck voiced Catherine Bloom in Gundam Wing.
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Candice Gargano (née Dawson) as Candice LeRae.
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Discussed (as "The Tony Danza Corollary") in the RiffTrax of Planet of the Dinosaurs.
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The Dark Knight Rises: At the football game Bane crashes, the kicker for the opposing team has "Ravenstahl" on the back of his jersey. The movie was filmed in Pittsburgh and the kicker is played by then-mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
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Terry Allen as Magnum T.A..
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Brent Butt as Brent Leroy on Corner Gas.
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In Spooks, Matthew Macfadyen starred as Tom Quinn, who entered into a relationship using the pseudonym Matthew Archer.
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In Moonraker, French actress Corinne Cléry portrays Corinne Dufour.
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Frank Gerdelman as Frankie Kazarian
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Gimme a Break! with Nell Carter as Nell Harper and Joey Lawrence as Joey Donovan.
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Robert Booker Tio Huffman as Booker T
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Subverted in Back to the Beach where Annette Funicello (known as Dee Dee in the classic Beach films) is called Annette while Frankie (her husband) is called "The Big Kahuna".
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Mr. Fleming from Doctor in Trouble was played by Michael Fleming.
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Andy Richter in Andy Richter Controls the Universe (and partially in Andy Barker, P.I.).
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Honey West has Bruce the ocelot as Bruce the ocelot, sometimes credited As Himself.
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Small Soldiers with Phil Fimple (Phil Hartman).
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Emilia Fox as Ms. Sylvia Fox in Signora Volpe. "Volpe" is "fox" in Italian.
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Bernie Mac on The Bernie Mac Show.
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This only happened once in Power Rangers, because in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers through Power Rangers Turbo, Catherine Sutherland played Katherine "Kat" Hillard; likely a coincidence, considering it started as a Meaningful Name (she could turn into a cat in her introductory arc)... It has technically happened twice but only if you know that Austin St. John's real name is Jason Geiger. Most fans, unless they find the information out as an adult, don't realize it until they google it, as the actor uses his stage name. He played Jason Lee Scott in the first and second seasons, plus subsequent appearances in Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Power Rangers Wild Force, and Power Rangers Beast Morphers.
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Bianca Blair as Bianca Belair.
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Quidam: John (Gilkey), the emcee.
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Nicholas Wilson as Nick Gage.
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Sesame Street:
Bob McGrath as Bob Johnson and Linda Bove as Linda.
In a roundabout way, the character Gordon's last name was eventually revealed to be Robinson. This was long after Matt Robinson's term as the character, and this is thus more of a Mythology Gag (Gordon is currently played by Roscoe Orman). Miles Orman (who was also Roscoe Orman's real-life son) was Miles Robinson.
Buffy Sainte-Marie as Buffy in early seasons, probably because she was basically Buffy Sainte-Marie living on Sesame Street. Her then-husband Sheldon Wolfchild and their son Dakota also appeared as Sheldon and Cody.
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A weird twist would be Poemi of Puni Puni☆Poemi, who believes that she is actually her voice actress Yumiko Kobayashi, and continually refers to herself by that name. (She's also convinced that her father, Nabeshin, is actually the director and her boss...)
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Manhattan Love Story: Chloe Cooper was played by Chloé Wepper.
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Probably coincidental since the character actually is a real person, but in The Blind Side: Collins Tuohy is played by Lily Collins (daughter of Phil Collins).
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Hunter: The Parenting: Big-D is voiced by one of the lead writers, SpeakerD.
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In Total Drama, Christian Potenza as Chris McLean until the 2023 reboot, where he was replaced by Terry McGurrin. In season five, Alex House as Alejandro Burromuerto. In season six, Christopher Jacot as Topher. In the 2023 reboot, Julie Sype as Julia.
In the French Canadian dub, Don (who is named Joel in said dub) is voiced by Joel Legendre.
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Before he became Goldust (itself an example because of the "dust"), Dustin Runnels wrestled as Dustin Rhodes.
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Please Like Me has Josh Thomas, Thomas Ward, and Hannah Gadsby, as well as Shaniqua the Rabbit and John the Dog.
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In Hayate the Combat Butler, Saki is voiced by Saki Nakajima.
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Macey Estrella-Kadlec (née Evans) as Lacey Evans. Lacey was actually her sister's maiden name.
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Toomorrow: All the band members have the same names as their actors: Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper, and Karl Chambers.
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La Dolce Vita: Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Rubini) and Riccardo Garrone (Riccardo).
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And speaking of Richard Harris movies, Patriot Games features Sean Bean as Sean Miller.
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Rebecca Quin as Rebecca Knox and Becky Lynch.
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Warrior had two; Tom Hardy as Tommy Conlon, one of the two protagonists, and Frank Grillo as Frank Campana, The Mentor of the other protagonist.
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Welcome Back, Kotter starred Gabe Kaplan as Gabe Kotter. (Justified as the series was based upon Kaplan's youth.)
Sissy Walker, a very minor character who appeared only five times between 1975 and 1978, was played by Cissy Wellman.
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Simon Templeman plays Simon Leeds in Just Shoot Me!.
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Patrick Bristow as the Tipton Hotel maître d' Patrick on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
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In Plain Sight has lead character Mary Shannon played by Mary McCormack. Whenever she needs an alias-to testify in court, let's say-she goes by "Mary Shepherd".
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In Futari wa Pretty Cure, Akane Fujita is voiced by Mikako Fujita.
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Scott "Scotty" Thomas in Euro Trip is played by Scott Mechlowicz.
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The original Broadway production of The Cat and the Fiddle had Odette Myrtil as Odette.
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In-universe example: in the post-Scratch universe of Homestuck, John Crocker took Harry Anderson's role as the judge in Night Court. So in this version, it was Judge Johnny Stone.
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Jim Morris as Hillbilly Jim
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Before becoming Dolph Ziggler, Nick Nemeth wrestled as Spirit Squad Member Nicky.
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In Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl, Kana Hanazawa provides the voice of a minor character named Hanazawa.
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Subversion: Hope & Faith starred Kelly Ripa and Faith Ford in the title roles... but Faith played Hope and Kelly played Faith.
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The late Roderick "Roddy" Toombs as Roddy Piper
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In Trainwreck, star/screenwriter Amy Schumer's character is called Amy.
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The Twilight Zone (1985):
Lori Petty played Lori Pendleton in "The Library".
Steven Andrade played Steve in "The Hunters".
Lisa Schrage played Candy (whose real name is Lisa) and Elena Kudaba played Mrs. Kudaba in "The Trunk".
Lisa Jakub played Lisa Cranston in "Street of Shadows".
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Lisa Lougheed as Lisa Raccoon on The Raccoons. She also sang the better-known version of the Ending Theme.
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Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Terriers and Tiaras" features a dog named Sam U.L., voiced by Samuel Vincent.
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Senran Kagura Estival Versus: Yumi is voiced by Yumi Hara.
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Yasuko Nagazami as Yasko and Alibe Parsons as Alibe in Space: 1999.
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Frankie Avalon in Beach Party and its sequels.
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Katarina Waters as Katie Lea (Burchill).
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In High Heels and Low Lifes, Danny Dyer plays Danny Robinson.
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Lee and Tim from Not Going Out are played by Lee Mack and Tim Vine respectively. There is also Tim and Lucy's father, Geoffrey, who is played by Geoffrey Whitehead, but this is an odd case as he was originally played by Timothy West.
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In the Norwegian dub of DuckTales (2017), Lena is voiced by Lena Meieran.
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Brad, the main villain from Comic Jumper, is voiced by Brad Hawkins.
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Jillian Fletcher as Jillian Hall
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The novel the bone people by Keri Hulme has a protagonist named Kerewin Holmes.
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That '80s Show: Margaret Smith as Margaret.
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Also for many of his older Cantonese movies, his character is also named Sing, such as the Fight Back to School franchise (with the last name Chow), All for the Winner franchise, The Magnificent Scoundrels. His character in his latest movie CJ7 has the last name Chow.
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In Elf, Buddy's real name is William, and he is played by Will Ferrell.
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In [REC], Pablo is played by Pablo Rosso, who is a cameraman in Real Life.
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Hiroyoshi Yamamoto as Hiroyoshi Tenzan
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In the Norwegian dub of the 2015 animated Heidi tv series, the main titular character is voiced by Heidi Ruud Ellingsen.
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Michael Corleone's son Anthony in The Godfather film series (the character doesn't exist in the Mario Puzo novels) was so named because the 3-year-old boy who played him in the first film was also named Anthony. It was found that he responded best to his own name.
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Jessica Jones (2015) features the character Will Simpson, played by Wil Traval. It's somewhat of an unusual example because, while the character is adapted from the comics, his first name is Frank there. The show also had an in-universe case where Patricia "Trish" Walker was the child star of the show It's Patsy!.
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Melissa Anderson as Cheerleader Melissa
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On Sons of Anarchy, Courtney Love — born Courtney Harrison — has a recurring role as Ms. Harrison.
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Tim Stack as "TV's Tim Stack" in My Name Is Earl. Whether he's as much of a raging drunk in real life remains to be seen, right? Right?
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Neil Connery as Dr. Neil Connery in the James Bond parody OK Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother—or to use the title of its Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, Operation Double 007). And yes, the Casting Gag of having Sean's younger brother play an unnamed agent's younger brother is the plot. In the same film Lois "Miss Moneypenny" Maxwell plays "Miss Maxwell".
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Maxwell Tyler Friedman as Maxwell Jacob Friedman, or MJF.
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WWE film See No Evil features Glenn "Kane" Jacobs as Jacob Goodnight. The character Christine is portrayed by Christina Vidal.
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Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza as Andrade "Cien" Almas, just plain Andrade, and Andrade El �dolo.
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Home Movies through the entire cast, though Paula became an exception when her original voice actress, Paula Poundstone, was replaced.
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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter stars Herman's Hermits. With the exception of Peter Noone as Herman Tulley, all the band members play characters with the same first names as themselves.
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Examples: Chris Irvine as Chris Jericho
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Hyein Park as Abby Park in Turning Red.
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Planet Ajay: The main character, Ajay, is played by Ajay Chhabra.
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Revenge has Emily VanCamp as Emily Thorne, Emily Alyn Lind as the flashback version of Emily, and Ashley Madekwe as Ashley. However, it should be noted Emily is an alias of Amanda Clark.
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This created an interesting situation during his run on The Late Show when he wanted to perform segments as his prior character, but they were warned that "Stephen Colbert" was still owned by Comedy Central. In response, rather than having Stephen Colbert's Stephen Colbert appear, Stephen Colbert introduced Stephen Colbert's suspiciously similar cousin, Stephen Colbert. They made it very clear that the character was a coincidentally-identically-named relative of the other, and they were therefore not violating Comedy Central's intellectual property claim.
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Digimon Adventure did this for some of the kids' parents' first names. The parents were probably named after their voice actors, as most of the parents' voices were the same as some of the kids or their Digimon, and some of their names were All There in the Manual. Yuko Mizutani (Sora) as Yuko Yagami, Hiroaki Hirata (Narrator) as Hiroaki Ishida, Toshiko Fujita (Taichi) as Toshiko Takenouchi, Masami Kikuchi (Jou) as Masami Izumi...
The dub of Digimon Adventure 02 renamed the Australian boy Dingo as "Derek", voiced by Derek Stephen Prince.
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The Cathy primetime specials featured Kathleen Wilhoite as Cathy Andrews, and creator Cathy Guisewite's father William as the voice of Cathy's father Bill.
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From the original series in 1962 to the movie in 1990note In fact, he had passed on in mid-production, George Jetson was voiced by George O'Hanlon.
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In Resurrection (the original movie from 1980), Edna Mae McCauley is played by Ellen Burstyn, whose real name is Edna Rae Gillooly.
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In The Angry Beavers, Norbert and Daggett's younger sisters, Chelsea and Stacy, are named after and voiced by creator Mitch Schauer's daughters.
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Peggy Lee as Peg from Lady and the Tramp.
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All of the titular Wake Up, Girls! are named after their respective voice actresses.
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Justified in Labyrinth. Toby was originally named Freddie, but the infant playing him—Toby Froud, son of puppet designer Brian Froud—would only respond to his own name.
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The Danza
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The arcade game Pit-Fighter is an early example where the sprites are digitised images of real actors. It has four Danzas: "Southside Jim" is played by one James Thompson, "Chainman Eddie" by Eddie Venancio, "Mad Miles" by Miles McGowan, and "Angel" by Angela Stellato.
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Vivian Vance played Vivian Bunson (née Vivian Bagley) on The Lucy Show, and had a recurring guest role as Vivian Jones on Here's Lucy. This was a direct result of her being fed up with fans calling her "Ethel" all the time, and demanding that her subsequent second-banana characters be known by her real name.
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The Danza
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David Wong, main character of John Dies at the End, by David Wong. (Not necessarily, as David Wong is just a Pen Name.)
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The Danza
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4 Square had Helen Farmer as Helen and Pay Chen as Pay.
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The Danza
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Bagpuss: Emily, the little girl who owns Bagpuss and the shop, and is seen in the title montage of sepiatone photos, was played by Emily Firmin, daughter of series illustrator Peter Firmin.
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The Danza
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In American Dad!, Jeff Fischer's voice actor is, well, Jeff Fischer.
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Temiri Blagg, a character in The Last Jedi often referred to by fans as "Broom Boy", was named after the child actor who portrayed him, Temirlan Blaev.
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The Danza
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In La Haine, Vinz, Saïd and Hubert are played by Vincent Cassel, Saïd Taghmaoui and Hubert Koundé, respectively.
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The Danza
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In Outbreak, Donald Sutherland plays Major General Donald "Donnie" McClintock.
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The Danza
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Mr. Mackay in Porridge was played by Fulton Mackay.
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Steve from Blue's Clues—his actor's name was Steven in real life. Oddly enough, his Suspiciously Similar Substitute is named Joe in the show but has the real-life name of Donovan.
The reboot, Blue's Clues & You!, also qualifies, with Josh being played by Joshua Dela Cruz.
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The Danza
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The Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Gambling Lady" atypically has two examples in its guest cast: Peter Breck plays Peter Warren and Myrna Fahey plays Myrna Warren.
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Crystal Crisis: In his first playable appearance, Johnny Turbo is voiced by the man he was based on in the first place, Jonathan Brandsetter.
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The Nostalgia Critic is named "Doug" as is shown through his Nicktoons review, and the person who plays him is Doug Walker. However, Doug Walker has said that the critic IS a character, and is a separate entity from Walker himself. Walker also plays many characters on That Guy With The Glasses, and the Nostalgia Critic is the only one to share his name.
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Clyde Cash, Jason Kendrick Howell, and Jack Thaddeus voice themselves in the Sonichu audiobooks.
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Star Trek Novelverse:
The Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins gives the name of the unnamed Starfleet captain played by Madge Sinclair in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as Madge Sinclair-Alexander (the "Alexander" coming from the Voyage Home Novelization.)
The Star Trek: The Original Series novel Burning Dreams, about the life of Captain Pike, says he was born Christopher McKinnies. McKinnies was Jeffrey Hunter's real surname.
The Original Series novel Crucible: Kirk - The Star To Every Wandering gives Antonia from Star Trek: Generations the surname Salvatori, after actress Lynn Salvatori.
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Steve Williams as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, as there already was a "Dr. Death" Steve Williams. He's since legally adopted Steve Austin (without the "Stone Cold" part).
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Carla Tassara voices a janitor named Carla.
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The Danza
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One of the models to portray Lara Croft during publicity for the Tomb Raider games was named Lara Weller. Her friends suggested that she try out for the part partially because she shared the character's first name.
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The Owl House:
Principal Bump is voiced by Bumper Robinson.
Luz's history teacher Mr. Sandoval is voiced by Stephen Sandoval.
There's also a variation with the in-universe book series Cosmic Frontier, which is an obvious parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Naturally, Sisko's counterpart is named Captain Avery after Avery Brooks.
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The Noddy Shop had Katie Boland play Kate Tomten.
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The Danza
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Heather Mason in Silent Hill 3 is actually named after her voice actress, Heather Morris.
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As well as creating Whitney (plus executive producing and writing several episodes), Whitney Cummings plays... Whitney Cummings.
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Sara Paxton as Sara Houski in Shark Night.
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The Danza
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In-universe example: Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge from Mickey's Christmas Carol. This was inevitable since Scrooge McDuck was named in honor of that other Scrooge in the first place.note First appearance: a 1947 Donald Duck story called "Christmas On Bear Mountain"
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The Danza
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In Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the pink ranger, Kasumi Momochi, is played by Kasumi Yamaya.
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In IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix (at least the English version), the doctor who cares for Amy is named Dr. Blum and voiced by Steve Blum.
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Hancock's Half Hour starred Tony Hancock as Anthony Aloysius St. John Hancock, Sid James as Sidney Balmoral James, and Bill Kerr as William Montmorency Beaumont Kerr. The only other regular character was Griselda Pugh, played by Hattie (not Griselda) Jacques. Kenneth Williams played several bit-parts, none of them called Kenneth. The main characters' elaborate middle names are fictitious.
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In Arlo the Alligator Boy, Teeny Tiny Tony is voiced by Tony Hale.
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Entourage: Scott Caan as Scott Levin.
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While not to the same extent, Larry's fellow Blue Collar Comedy partner Bill Engvall's roles sometimes gives him his own first name. Most notably, Delta Farce and Bait Shop.
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Fallout 4 has Katy Townsend as the voice of Cait.
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Before becoming Bayley, Pamela Rose Martinez wrestled as Davina Rose.
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Every character in the Australian mockumentary series The Games is named for their actor — for example, Frank Woodley playing, well, Dr. Frank Woodley (who is "partially" a TV vet in the episode). This was lampshaded in the second season when the actor John Howard played a political representative pretending to be then real-life Prime Minister John Howard, making a public apology for Australia's historically poor treatment of indigenous people (something the actual Prime Minister Howard refused to do), for the benefit of various foreign dignitaries; Brian remarks on the fraud, since he's not the Prime Minister, to which Gina replies "He didn't say he was; he said he was John Howard speaking to you from Sydney, Australia", making the point that no one outside Australia would be expected to know what the Prime Minister looks like.
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April Jeanette Mendez-Brooks as A.J. Lee.
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In A Fish Called Wanda, Tom Georgeson plays the character George Thomason.
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Tom Laughlin as Tommy Dreamer
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In Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, the most prominent GDI characters in cutscenes are General James Solomon, played by James Earl Jones, and Michael McNeil, played by Michael Biehn.
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Candice Beckman-Ehrlich as Candice Michelle
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Jessica McKay as Billie Kay
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Jackie Chan Adventures has a last name version, with Jade Chan being voiced by Stacie Chan (no relation to Jackie Chan). The in-show Jackie Chan isn't an example, since the character is voiced by James Sie.
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Please Turn Over stars Ted Ray as Edward Halliday.
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In Big Mouth, Nick Birch is voiced by Nick Kroll. Nick is also voiced by Nicolas Matthys in the European French dub.
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In The Orbiting Human Circus (of the Air), Julian the Janitor is played by series creator Julian Koster, while the eponymous variety show's showrunner and host John Cameron is played by John Cameron Mitchell.
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Daisy Jones & The Six: Camila Morrone plays Camila Alvarez.
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The Magic Pudding: Sam Neill playing Sam Sawnoff. Subverted in that the source material was written decades before Neill was born.
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The Strange Calls: Toby Banks is played by Tony Truslove.
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Aloha, Bobby and Rose has Erick Hines as Rose's five-year-old son Erick.
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Chowder. Reuben is voiced by Paul Reubens.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon features Zack Gottsagen as Zak.
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The Ren & Stimpy Show had a sketch featuring a character named Billy the Beef Tallow Boy, who was voiced by Billy West.
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Before becoming Fandango, Curtis Jonathan Hussey as Johnny Curtis.
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In Festen (The Celebration), the receptionist Lars and Helene's boyfriend Gbatokai are portrayed by Lars Brygmann and Gbatokai Dakinah, respectively.
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In Resident Evil Barry Gjerde was the voice of Barry Burton.
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Lucky Star:
Minoru Shiraishi is voiced... by Minoru Shiraishi. It goes further than that, since Shiraishi plays himself (or a version of himself that's only slightly older than Akira) in the Lucky Channel segments... who plays a character named Minoru Shiraishi in the main program.
Patricia Martin's character has been confirmed to be inspired by Patricia Ja Lee. And then, in the English dub, was actually voiced by Patricia Ja Lee.
Clerk Sugita is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita.
Shiraishi also played an aspiring voice actor named Shiraishi in Kiddy GiRL-AND.
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In-universe example on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: in Benjamin Sisko's (hallucination? Prophet experience? alternate lifetime?) of the racist 1950s, his "character" is named Benny Russell. Some of his colleagues' counterparts also have related names: Kay for Kira, Darlene for Dax, Julius for Julian, Cassie for Kasidy; but others don't.
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Baghead (2008) has Jett Garner as a filmmaker/actor named Jett.
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Kate Columbo in Mrs. Columbo.
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In Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, Shoko Nakagawa voices a character named Proof. The Japanese word for proof is "shouko" (written with different kanji than Nakagawa's first name). According to Nakagawa's book, this was intentional.
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Guido Quaroni as Guido from Cars.
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In Halo, recurring marine sergeant Marcus P. Stacker (the white, southern accented counterpart to Sgt. Johnson) is voiced by Pete Stacker.note He also voiced Captain Jacob Keyes in both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: Reach.
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Appears in-universe in Haruhi Suzumiya when each of the named characters in the SOS Brigade's movie The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina: Episode 00 is named for the brigade members who play them, and has roles appropriate to the actor's secret identity. (Also a mild case of My Nayme Is, since in Japanese the characters' names are in katakana, while the actors' names are in kanji/hiragana).
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In Odd Taxi, Takaya Kuroda voices Kuroda, a tapir who also happens to be a member of the yakuza.
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Holiday on the Buses: Sandra was played by Sandra Bryant.
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Before becoming Evan Bourne, Matt Korklan wrestled as Matt Sydal and did so again upon leaving WWE.
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Jack Benny in The Jack Benny Program.
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Winterskin: John Carver is played by John Lomas.
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Robert and Scott Rechsteiner as Rick and Scott Steiner, with "Rick Steiner" being a homophone of the brothers' real surname.
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HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! has Megumi Aino, played by Megumi Nakajima. Funny enough, Hime's voice actress is also named Megumi.
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Zootopia has Bonnie Hopps played by Bonnie Hunt.
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With the exceptions of Hicks and Ripley, all of the Marines in Aliens named on the hypersleep capsule readout share their first initial with the actor or actress playing them. Including Bishop the android, who is given the first initial "L". Word of God says their whole first names match up.
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Played with in Liberal Arts. Elizabeth Olsen's character is named Elizabeth but is exclusively addressed as Zibby. There's also Elizabeth Ann Reaser playing a character named Anna.
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Before jobbing it out as Zack Ryder (Matthew Brett Cardona) and Curt Hawkins (Brian Myers) respectively, they were kayfabe brothers Brett and Brian Majors.
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Raising the Wind has Sid James playing Sid, a music publisher.
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The Adkisson wrestling clan of Texas as the Von Erich Family, save for patriarch Jack Adkisson/Fritz Von Erich, who used a completely different ring name.
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In The Devil Commands, Richard Fiske plays Dr. Richard Sayles.
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Bendy and the Ink Machine has Shawn Flynn, head of the toy department. He's voiced by Jacksepticeye, whose real name is Seán... but game creator theMeatly has since revealed that he named the character before taking auditions for the role, and Jack's voice was simply the closest fit for the voice he had in mind.
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Shigeo "Shige" Shiba in Patlabor was voiced by Shigeru Chiba.
Natsunagu has the even more evident "Shigezou" Chiba, likewise voiced by the same actor.
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Annette Bening and Catherine O'Hara, respectively as Anda and Kata the female moose from Brother Bear 2.
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Allen Jones as AJ Styles
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In Carlos Saura's Carmen, the dancers Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, and Juan Antonio Jimenez play dancers named Antonio, Cristina, and Juan, while musician Paco de Lucia plays a musician named Paco. And In-Universe, the actress hired for the theater troupe's production of Carmen is named Carmen.
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Tony Caruso in The Good Cop
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The Goodies — Tim (Brooke-Taylor), Graeme (Garden), and Bill (Oddie). Plus, the books that spun off from the show give their full names in appropriate places, and their "brochure" in The Goodies File lists their real-life years and places of birth. Needless to say, the characters are just highly exaggerated versions of themselves.
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Everybody in Shinesman — at least in the original Japanese version. This was an intentional ploy on the part of the mangaka which worked out handily when the manga was adapted for an OAV.
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Drake & Josh, starring Drake Bell and Josh Peck as Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, respectively.
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A Good Woman Is Hard To Find: Sarah Bolger plays the lead character, also named Sarah.
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Sakura Trick has Haruka Tomatsu playing Haruka Takayama. The other heroine is a partial match—Yuu Sonoda, played by Yuka Iguchi—so this probably wasn't a coincidence.
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And before Kati Mannequin, Cathy Weseluck voiced Catherine Bloom in Gundam Wing.
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In The Journeyman Project, Megan Love, heard on the radio during the intro, was voiced by Megan Wheeler.
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In GoldenEye (1997), Dr. Doak was named and modeled after developer David Doak.
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Daniel Christopher Covell as Christopher Daniels
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In TBS's version of Aggretsuko, one of Retsuko's coworkers is an axolotl named Yokosawa, voiced by actress and comedian Natsuko Yokosawa.
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Martin Clunes as Dr Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin. Further variant in that the character's surname is an anagram of series creator Dominic Minghella.
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In Dekh Bhai Dekh, the character Daisy Mausi is played by Daisy Irani.
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In Starter for 10 Alice Eve plays Alice and Rebecca Hall plays Rebecca.
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Games made by Skip Ltd. (such as Chibi-Robo! and Captain Rainbow) frequently feature a black-and-white dog named Tao, who is usually portrayed as somewhat lazy and often very hungry. Tao was the actual dog of Skip's creative director, looked exactly like his fictional counterparts, and... was somewhat lazy and often very hungry. (The real dog died in 2009, but the fictional version will live on in games forevermore.)
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Many of the supporting cast on The Office (US) share first names with their characters, including Phyllis, Angela, and Oscar. Creed Bratton plays a fictionalized version of himself, so he skirts into As Himself territory.
The reason for some supporting officemates retaining first names is that many of them are Ascended Extras. Also, Michael screens a movie starring himself as Michael Scarn, an obvious Author Avatar.
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In order to promote Summer Strallen taking over the lead role in The Sound of Music on the West End, its producer Andrew Lloyd Webber had her written into the show as a character called Summer Shaw. The character was then talent spotted by Lloyd Webber appearing as himself on the show.
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Subverted in Defendor. Kat Dennings plays Kat Debrofkowitz, but her real name is Katherine Litwack while the character's full name is Katerina.
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Licorice Pizza has Alana Haim as Alana Kane.
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Dad's Army has Bill Pertwee as Warden William Hodges.
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In Bad Boys (1995), Theresa Randle plays Theresa Burnett.
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John Laurinaitis wrestled as Johnny Ace.
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Captain Sawada in Street Fighter is played by Kenya Sawada.
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Subverted in Snow Cake: Angela Pell wrote the screenplay with Alan Rickman so much in mind that the main character was originally named "Alan Hughes". Rickman suggested the name change; the character is now called "Alex Hughes".
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Snow Dogs has James Coburn as James "Thunder Jack" Johnson.
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In Terminator: Dark Fate, Dany Ramos's brother Diego is played by Diego Boneta (who is included in the opening credits as a starring cast member, but is killed off quickly). The minor role of Carl's wife Alicia is played by Alicia Borrachero.
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In one episode of Hogan's Heroes, actor Karl Swenson played scientist Karl Svenson.
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In the series Delocated, Eugene Mirman portrays a Russian hitman named "Yvgeny Mirminsky."
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Considering his birth name was Sing, his characters in Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle are also The Danza.
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Murdoch Mysteries: Thomas Craig as Thomas Brakenreid is a coincidence, since that was the name of the character in the books, who in turn was based on a historical figure. However, the Highland Games episode reveals Brakenreid is a member of the Craig clan through his mother.
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A Discovery of Witches: Matthew Goode plays vampire Matthew Clairmont.
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Before becoming The Undertaker, Mark Calaway wrestled as Mean Mark Callous.
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Coronation Street has long-running star Betty Driver as Betty Williams.
Also Sally Dynevor as Sally Webster.
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The Walking Dead (2010): Katy Obrian played a Savior named Katy in two episodes.
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On Matilda's 2015 US tour, Miss Honey, whose first name is Jennifer, coincidentally was played by Jennifer Blood. In the West End run, Matilda Shapland was in the rotation for the title role from September 2014 to September 2015.
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Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain in Stella. Oddly, the show was adapted from their comedy act and short films where they're playing exaggerated versions of themselves (e.g. they're still comedians in an act named "Stella"), but on the TV show itself, they were usually unemployed and picked up different, bizarre moneymaking schemes in nearly every episode.
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Mike Mizanin as The Miz
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Makoto in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is voiced by Makoto Tsumura. She reprised her role as her Japanese voice actress in Super Street Fighter IV.
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Glee:
Another variant— The character Kurt Hummel is so named because the actor who plays him, Chris Colfer, once played Kurt Von Trapp in The Sound of Music and looks like a Hummel figurine.
Brad The Piano Player is played by Brad Ellis.
Jake Puckerman is played by Jacob Artist.
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Victoria Jackson as Victoria in the failed 1984 M*A*S*H spinoff, W* A* L* T* E* R.
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Tony Banta in Taxi
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Arianna Huffington as The Cleveland Show's Arianna the Bear.
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Prison Break featured Paul Adelstein as Paul Kellerman and Sarah Wayne Callies as Sarah Tancredi.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie as Buffy in early seasons, probably because she was basically Buffy Sainte-Marie living on Sesame Street. Her then-husband Sheldon Wolfchild and their son Dakota also appeared as Sheldon and Cody.
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The Seven Little Monsters episode "April Fools" guest-stars an uncredited Maurice LaMarche as a boy named Maurice who auditions for the monsters' play, assists One, Two, Three, Six and Seven in pulling a prank to get back at Four and Five and turns out to be an alien.
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The Loud House and The Casagrandes:
Carlos Casagrande is voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
Katherine Mulligan is voiced and played by Catherine Taber.
Grant (the employee at Burpin' Burger) is voiced by Grant Palmer.
In A Loud House Christmas, Gayle McBride is played by Gail Everett Smith.
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In Doctor Strange (2016), Benedict Wong plays a character named "Wong". This may just be a same name or a casting gag however, the character in the film was based on an established character from the Doctor Strange comics.
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The Fear Mythos features characters named after their actors: Jordan and Nathan from Jordan Eats Normally Now, and Seann of Cryptid 417.
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In several episodes of Kim Possible, Tara Strong has played a character named "Tara".
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Batman: The Animated Series has a partial case, as Harley Quinn was loosely based on her voice actress Arleen Sorkin (who was a friend of the episode's writer, Paul Dini); her real name was later revealed as Harleen Quinzel, with her first name being just one letter away from Arleen's.
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Charles Yu, time-machine repairman in How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. It really says something that this is one of the less confusing things about the book.
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Simon Anstell as Simon in Grandma's House; his first major writing and acting gig since leaving Never Mind the Buzzcocks, the fictional Simon is a TV presenter who just left a Panel Game and is looking for something else to do with his life.
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Every single character in Purple Rain shares their actor's first name except for that played by Prince (his name is The Kid) and his movie mother and father (they have fictional names).
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Almost all the main characters in the '70s show What's Happening!! Two had the same last name, three the same first name. And one just used the initial of her first name.
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 The Danza / int_92cfb0f8
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The Danza / int_92cfb0f8
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 The Danza / int_93e1a7e
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Blade II has Karel Roden as Karel Kounen.
 The Danza / int_93e1a7e
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 The Danza / int_93e1a7e
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 Blade II
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The Danza / int_93e1a7e
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The Danza
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As of Street Fighter V, Ed's English voice actor has been Edward Bosco. This was averted during his appearance in Balrog's Super SFIV ending, where he was younger and voiced by Laura Bailey.
 The Danza / int_93fdfb2f
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 The Danza / int_93fdfb2f
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 Street Fighter V (Video Game)
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The Danza / int_93fdfb2f
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_944191c6
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In another coincidental one (or maybe a casting director was being cute), in the English dub of Kyo Kara Maoh!, Yuri was voiced by Yuri Lowenthal.
 The Danza / int_944191c6
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1.0
 The Danza / int_944191c6
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 Kyo Kara Maoh!
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The Danza / int_944191c6
 The Danza / int_945c8683
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The Danza
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On the Swedish version of American Gladiators, called simply Gladiatorerna (The Gladiators) a female gladiator called Bjørk/Björk first appeared in the ninth season in the mid-2010s. The commentators would frequently introduce her as "the unknown daughter of Odin". Her name really is Björk Odinsdottir ("Odinsdaughter"), presumably being of Icelandic origin.
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The Danza / int_945c8683
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The Danza
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In the Swedish dub of All Grown Up!, Charlotte is now voiced by Charlotte Ardai Jennefors.
 The Danza / int_946f58c1
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1.0
 The Danza / int_946f58c1
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The Danza / int_946f58c1
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_948af597
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Getting Together stars Bobby Sherman as Bobb Conway.
 The Danza / int_948af597
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The Danza / int_948af597
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_94c12116
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In The Wolf Man (1941), Bela Lugosi plays a fortune teller named Bela.
 The Danza / int_94c12116
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1.0
 The Danza / int_94c12116
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 The Wolf Man (1941)
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The Danza / int_94c12116
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9535dfe4
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In Grosse Pointe Blank Basque–American kickboxer and stuntman Benny "The Jet" Urquidez plays a Basque hitman named Benny.
 The Danza / int_9535dfe4
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9535dfe4
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The Danza / int_9535dfe4
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9598d960
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns sees Rob, a member of the Mutant Gang, voiced by Rob Paulsen.
 The Danza / int_9598d960
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 The Danza / int_9598d960
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 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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The Danza / int_9598d960
 The Danza / int_96f080cf
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_96f080cf
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Ozzie Nelson's entire family, in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
 The Danza / int_96f080cf
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 The Danza / int_96f080cf
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 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
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The Danza / int_96f080cf
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_97218fa4
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Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has an in-universe example: Clank as "Secret Agent Clank" in a series of James Bond-like movies he stars in.
 The Danza / int_97218fa4
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1.0
 The Danza / int_97218fa4
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 Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Video Game)
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The Danza / int_97218fa4
 The Danza / int_976613bc
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_976613bc
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Strange Gardens has Jacques Villeret as Jacques Pouzay, André Dussollier as André Designy and Thierry Lhermitte as Thierry Plaisance.
 The Danza / int_976613bc
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The Danza / int_976613bc
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_984a0c82
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Saraya Jade Bevis first entered the business as Britani Knight before finding WWE fame as Paige. She became a Danza after ending a five-year retirement and signing with AEW as Saraya.
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The Danza / int_984a0c82
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_987ae288
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Many of the minor characters in Cars 3. Some only a couple of letters away from being full name Danzas.
 The Danza / int_987ae288
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1.0
 The Danza / int_987ae288
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 Cars 3
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The Danza / int_987ae288
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9880f55d
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Peggy Lipton as Peggy Tribeca in Angie Tribeca, playing the mother of her real-life daughter's character.
 The Danza / int_9880f55d
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 The Danza / int_9880f55d
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 Angie Tribeca
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The Danza / int_9880f55d
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_98a0a468
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Played with in The Black Hole (1979). While commander Hans Reinhardt is played by Maximilian Schell, he has a right-hand robot named Maximilian. Significantly, the two characters are sort of merged together later in the film.
 The Danza / int_98a0a468
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The Danza / int_98a0a468
 The Danza / int_999299b5
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_999299b5
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In The 7th Guest, Julia Heine was played by Julia Tucker.
 The Danza / int_999299b5
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 The Danza / int_999299b5
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The Danza / int_999299b5
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9994a14f
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John Ratzenberger as (SURPRISE!) John from WallE.
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 WALL•E
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The Danza / int_9994a14f
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_99c003af
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Spoofed in The Boondocks episode "...Or Die Trying". A fictitious sequel to Soul Plane has 50 Cent play "Air Marshal 50 Cent".
 The Danza / int_99c003af
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 The Danza / int_99c003af
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 The Boondocks
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The Danza / int_99c003af
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The Danza
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Louis Prima as King Louie from The Jungle Book (1967). Disney originally intended to cast Louis Armstrong for the role until they realized the Unfortunate Implications of casting a black man as an ape and chose Prima (who was Italian-American) instead, who coincidentally also fit this trope.
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The Danza / int_99d0c794
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9a0cb5f4
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Gene Belcher from Bob's Burgers, who is voiced by Eugene Mirman. Originally Dan Mintz's character Tina was going to be a boy named Daniel, as well.
 The Danza / int_9a0cb5f4
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1.0
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The Danza / int_9a0cb5f4
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The Danza
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Four minor characters from Dad's Army (1971) - Franz, and Privates Hastings, Hancock, and Lesley - were named for their actors - Franz Van Norde, Hugh Hastings, George Hancock, and Leslie Noyes.
 The Danza / int_9a571885
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The Danza / int_9a571885
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The Danza
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In Detective Conan (AKA Case Closed in North America):
Several police officers were named after their voice actors. Detective Wataru Takagi is named after his voice actor, but other minor police officers bear the surnames of their respective voice actors (for example, Isshin Chiba).
Conan's voice actor double-roles in a two-parter as herself, the lead singer for the band Two-Mix.
Shuichi Akai is named after both, Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam and his voice actor Shūichi Ikeda. Ikeda eventually voices Akai.
Akai's opponent Tooru Amuro is named after both, Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam and his voice actor Tōru Furuya. Furuya eventually voices Tooru Amuro. This name turns out to be a fake, and his real name is Rei Furuya, still named after both, Amuro Ray and Toru Furuya.
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The Danza / int_9a67b688
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The Danza
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The Star Trek: The Original Series novel Burning Dreams, about the life of Captain Pike, says he was born Christopher McKinnies. McKinnies was Jeffrey Hunter's real surname.
 The Danza / int_9a7088bc
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 The Danza / int_9a7088bc
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The Danza / int_9a7088bc
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9aab79e3
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The Bay: One of the women interviewed by Dr. Abrams right after the outbreak is a woman named Lamya Jezek... played by Lamya Jezek.
 The Danza / int_9aab79e3
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1.0
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The Danza / int_9aab79e3
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9b4ab849
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A coincidental example for Lupin III: Gorō Naya's successor as KÅ�ichi Zenigata is Kōichi Yamadera.
 The Danza / int_9b4ab849
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9b4ab849
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 Lupin III
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The Danza / int_9b4ab849
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The Danza
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In Knocked Up, the main character's friends all keep the first names of the actors portraying them.
 The Danza / int_9b8fd034
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9b8fd034
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 Knocked Up
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The Danza / int_9b8fd034
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The Danza
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The Blacklist had Mozhan Marnò play Samir Navabi. Navabi is her real surname - she reverted back to using it in 2023, commenting she'd changed it because of some bad professional advice earlier in her career. At the time of her casting, the producers asked her for options for an Iranian surname and in the list of 15, she threw in "Navabi" as a joke and that was the one they went for.
 The Danza / int_9bb59653
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 The Blacklist
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The Danza / int_9bb59653
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The Danza
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Rudy Del Campo plays a character named simply "Del Campo" in the 1961 film version of West Side Story.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9c1d3818
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The Danza / int_9c1d3818
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The Danza
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On Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Nina Glitter's manager Jess is voiced by Jess Harnell.
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 Mickey and the Roadster Racers
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The Danza
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Tommaso Whitney as Tommaso Ciampa.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9cc00266
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 Tommaso Ciampa (Wrestling)
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The Danza / int_9cc00266
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The Danza
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The Good Place: Jameela Jamil, who plays Tahani, has almost the same surname as hers: Al-Jamil.
 The Danza / int_9d7ec380
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 The Danza / int_9d7ec380
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The Danza / int_9d7ec380
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The Danza
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In Regular Show, when we meet Margaret's father, we learn her family name is Smith. The father is voiced by Roger Craig Smith who also voiced Thomas/Nikolai.
 The Danza / int_9e2dbb4d
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The Danza / int_9e2dbb4d
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The Danza
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In One Piece, Ryunosuke, a dragon created by Kanjuro, is voiced by Ryunosuke Yamaguchi. (He is the son of Usopp's voice actor, Kappei Yamaguchi.)
 The Danza / int_9e2f90f4
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The Danza / int_9e2f90f4
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The Danza
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In NewsRadio, Dave Nelson was played by Dave Foley and Joe Garelli was played by Joe Rogan. Phil Hartman's character Bill McNeal was intentionally named to be almost a Danza. In the episode "Chock", Dave's old a cappella singing group stops by, the other three members being named David, Bob, and Brian. They were played by Mr. Show alums David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, and Brian Posehn.
 The Danza / int_9ec61fa1
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 NewsRadio
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The Danza / int_9ec61fa1
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The Danza
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Zig-zagged in The Brady Bunch, where Mike Brady was played by Robert Reed, while his son Bobby was played by Mike Lookinland.
 The Danza / int_9f1766e4
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9f1766e4
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The Danza / int_9f1766e4
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The Danza
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A borderline example: In Murder, She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher's maiden name is MacGill. Angela Lansbury's mother was the actress Moyna MacGill.
 The Danza / int_9f78fda3
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9f78fda3
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 Murder, She Wrote
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The Danza / int_9f78fda3
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_9f8a12a7
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In The Three Caballeros, Professor Holloway is voiced by Sterling Holloway, of course.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9f8a12a7
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The Danza / int_9f8a12a7
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The Danza
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Michael Coulthard as Michael Cole
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 The Danza / int_9f92c5ed
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 Michael Cole (Wrestling)
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The Danza / int_9f92c5ed
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The Danza
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The Farndale Avenue plays are a series of supposedly amateur productions that always descend into (actually carefully choreographed) chaos. At least once in each play, the production's harried director, David, will emerge from backstage to try and get things back under control. In the original stagings, David was played by the actual director and co-writer David McGillivray.
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The Danza / int_9f9ab3c4
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The Danza
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Jeff Hyslop as Jeff the mannequin on the Canadian children's show Today's Special.
 The Danza / int_9fe68540
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 The Danza / int_9fe68540
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The Danza / int_9fe68540
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The Danza
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The main duo of The Men from the Ministry, Richard Lamb and Deryck Lennox-Brown, are played by Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler respectively.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_9ff7441c
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1.0
 The Men from the Ministry (Radio)
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The Danza / int_9ff7441c
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The Danza
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In the Rugrats episode "Ruthless", Mike is voiced by Michael Bell.
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The Danza / int_a0500a06
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The Danza
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In the Norwegian dub of Toy Story 3, Lotso is called Kalle, played by Kalle Øby.
 The Danza / int_a0ae470
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1.0
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 Toy Story 3
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The Danza / int_a0ae470
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The Danza
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Derek from Series 2 of On the House was played by Derek Griffiths.
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 On the House
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The Danza / int_a127495
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The Danza
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In The Flintstone Kids, Betty Jean Brickernote or "McBricker"; it hasn't been constant was voiced by Betty Jean ("B.J.") Ward.
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The Danza
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The reboot, Blue's Clues & You!, also qualifies, with Josh being played by Joshua Dela Cruz.
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 The Danza / int_a1e03f15
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 Blue's Clues & You!
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The Danza / int_a1e03f15
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The Danza
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Silent Movie features Mel Brooks as Mel Funn, Marty Feldman as Marty Eggs, and Dom DeLuise as Dom Bell.
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 The Danza / int_a29b3c21
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 Silent Movie
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The Danza / int_a29b3c21
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The Danza
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In Noein the protagonist Haruka Kaminogi is voiced by Haruka Kudou.
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1.0
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 Noein
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The Danza / int_a2d9c25d
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The Danza
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Oliver Babish on The West Wing is played by Oliver Platt.
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The Danza / int_a32b6a64
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The Danza
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NUMB3RS: Bill Nye as Bill Waldie.
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1.0
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 NUMB3RS
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The Danza / int_a346e791
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The Danza
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Maya in Burn-Up! W & Burn-Up! Excess is voiced by Maya Okamoto.
 The Danza / int_a43ee7d6
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1.0
 The Danza / int_a43ee7d6
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 Burn Up!
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The Danza / int_a43ee7d6
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The Danza
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The Angry Video Game Nerd, played by James Rolfe, can be seen typing "Jame" on the name entry screen of Winter Games before realizing there's a four-character limit, and Spider-man calls him James while making fun of him. For added fun, Rolfe plays another character named Board James, who may or may not be the Nerd's alter-ego, thus making both of them the same James (but still a different James from James Rolfe).
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Code Geass has Inoue, Kento Sugiyama and Nagisa Chiba who are voiced by Kikuko Inoue, Noriaki Sugiyama and Saeko Chiba respectively. In their case, the characters were named for their actors. The English dub has a coincidental version with Kallen Stadtfeld (played by Karen Strassman).
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In episodes 59 and 60 of Mimpi Metropolitan, actor Dian Sidik guest stars as Bambang's cousin Dian.
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Several background characters were named after their actors, such as Paul Wilson as Paul, Paul Vaughn as a different Paul, Thomas Babson as Tom, Phil Perlman as Phil, etc.
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Metal Gear Solid has a coincidental example with Solid Snake's real name of "David", which happens to be the first name of his English voice actor, David Hayter. In reality, the name "David" was already decided during the Japanese voice recording, which was completed before the English voice actor for Snake was even chosen. It actually came from the main character in 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as Meryl Silverburgh's partner from Policenauts.
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The page quote comes from an interview Will did with Graham Norton, where he says Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton) told him to use this trope.
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The Fairly OddParents! has Jerkass Genie Norm being voiced by Norm Macdonald until "Fairy Idol".
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All three main characters of Wellington Paranormal:
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Young Max in Elysium is played by Maxwell Perry Cotton.
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Get a Life had Chris Elliott as Chris Peterson.
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Bryan Danielson as Daniel Bryan
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Bless This House featured Sid James (of Carry On fame) as Sid Abbott, and Sally Geeson as Sally Abbott. Plus, the 1972 feature film version contains a meta-aversion (by virtue of the fact that it became a notable example later): Terry Scott and June Whitfield played new neighbours Ronald and Vera Baines — the first outing of (and virtually identical to) the on-screen couple that would later make them a Britcom cliché (see Terry and June above).
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The Hero Elementary episode "Forces Of Nature" reveals that Dr. Inventorman's first name is Martin, much like his voice actor Martin Roach.
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To voice Momoko Touyoko of Saki, they chose... Momoko Saito. The character usually goes by "Momo" in-universe, but Kaori calls her "Momoko-san."
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Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule has the newsreaders Doug Prishpreed (Doug Foster), Carol Krabit (Carol Kraft), and Scott Clam (Scott Stewart). In particular Foster found the name Prishpreed very odd and seems to struggle to pronounce it every time he appears, adding to the awkwardness of his character.
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In the Italian version of Caméra Café, Luca Bitta and Paolo Nervi are played by Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu.
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Noah/Susan from A Safe Place (1971) is played by Tuesday Weld, whose birth name was Susan.
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In Four Weddings and a Funeral, David is played by David Bower.
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman: Brian's daughter Tiffany is played by Tiffany Evans. Tyler Perry says that the names being the same was pure coincidence.
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Claire Keelan as Claire Ashcroft in Nathan Barley.
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Toni Rossal as Toni Storm.
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Lucas the Spider was originally voiced by Lucas Slice, the nephew of series creator/animator Joshua Slice. Averted by the TV adaptation, which replaced Lucas with Simon Webster.
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Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face sees Commissioner James Gordon voiced by Jim Ward, with Jim simply being a less formal way to say James. In a similar vein, he's voiced by Jim Meskimen in Batman: Gotham Knight and Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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In Project X (2012), all of the characters except Costa share the same first names as their actors.
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Kids on the Slope has Junichi voiced by Jun'ichi Suwabe.
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Jake Hager as Jack Swagger in WWE. Now using his real name as an MMA fighter and in AEW.
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Dean Simon as Dean Malenko
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David Della Rocco in The Boondock Saints. The role was written specifically for him, but then again he was friends with the writer before they even started.
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Saturday Night Live had a few of these in the early years, including Headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, Garrett Morris. (The first six or seven years had a lot of first-name examples as well — the 'WASP Translator' sketch with Ray Sharkey centered around a couple named Charles and Ann. Guess which cast members played them.) Later on, in a move of notable laziness, Chris Farley's character was referred to simply as "Farley".
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Backdraft: Jennifer Vaitkus, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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The Partridge Family stars Shirley Jonesnote Who had previously appeared in Oklahoma! as Shirley Partridge, the mother, and features Danny Bonaduce as Danny Partridge, the middle son.
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Spoofed on Mega64, with Rocco Botte as Rocko Boaty, Derrick Acosta as Derek Ackawzdha, and Shawn Chatfield as Sean Chatfield. In other words, the same names, yet different spellings.
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Glenn Morshower as "General Morshower" in the second and third Transformers films.
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Jessie Royce Landis as Jessie Stevens in To Catch a Thief.
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Bob Lennon always names his characters (when their names are not explicitly given), "Bob" or some variations (such as in Aventures where his robot character is named 808). Likewise, any cat he finds tends to be named Wilfried after his real-life cat.
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In Boar, Ernie Dingo plays a character named Ernie.
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David Hewlett as David Worth in Cube. This might be chalked up to coincidence if not for the fact that Hewlett and director Vincenzo Natali have been good friends since high school — because of this he probably had some input in choosing his character's full name.
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Jill from Doctor at Sea was played by Jill Adams.
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Mystère: Brian Le Petit (Dewhurst) and Bebe Francois (Dupuis).
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Terri Boatright as Terri Runnels
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In The Waltons, Wilford Brimley played mountain man Horace Brimley, in a last name version.
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Rochelle in Left 4 Dead 2 is voiced by Rochelle Aytes.
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In Animal House, John Vernon plays Dean Vernon Wormer, and John Belushi plays John "Bluto" Blutarski.
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Kate Mulgrowl the cat in Infinity Train is named after her voice actress, Kate Mulgrew. Doubles as a Punny Name. Subverted when Book 3 reveals her name is actually Samantha.
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Jonathan Good as Jon Moxley. He wrestled as Dean Ambrose in WWE but has returned to his original ring name since leaving WWE.
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Fergal Devitt wrestled as Prince Devitt in Japan.
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Almost the entire cast of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is named after their voice actor's first name with no last name given (Laura Silverman as Laura, Todd Barry as Todd). Even the guests that appear on the show are credited as "Dave as Dave Attell". There are only three exceptions to this rule: Dr. Jonathan Katz uses his full name, Benjamin Katz was named after his actor's last name (most likely because his first name is Jon and that would be confusing), and Stanley's voice actor is Will Le Bow.
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Joseph Gatt's character was originally called GATT2000, although by the time of the film's release, the character's name was changed to Science Officer 0718.
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The Endless: Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead play the two main characters who are brothers, Justin and Aaron.
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The Magnus Archives focuses on head archivist Jonathan Sims, played by Jonathan Sims. Similar to Night Vale in that he was the sole narrator of a horror story for a while, but unlike Cecil, he was named from episode 1.
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In Catastrophe, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney both play characters who have the same first name as theirs.
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The entire cast of Korean sitcom Vampire Idol.
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In the video for "Hello" by Lionel Richie, the blind student played by actress Laura Carringtonnote who actually isn't blind who (in the video) makes a sculpture of her drama teacher (played by Lionel)note It was actually made by a professional artist who never actually met Lionel. is named Laura.
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In The Blues Brothers (1980), the owner of Ray's Music Exchange is played by Ray Charles. (No name is listed for the character.) Additionally, all of the band members except for leads Jake and Elwood use their real-life first and last names, though they usually go by nicknames in the film.
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Joe Seanoa as Samoa Joe
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Sid Eudy as Sid Vicious, Sycho Sid, or Sid Justice.
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Young Justice has Bruce Greenwood voicing Batman, whose real name (as many of you know) is Bruce Wayne. Again, a coincidence as the character had been around well before he was cast.
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Good Omens (2019): Season 2 has a "B" plot involving two shop owners called Maggie and Nina, played by Maggie Service and Nina Sosanya. They had previously played different characters in Season 1. Neil Gaiman created the roles especially for them.
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Kappa Mikey has its main characters playing characters with the same name in the Show Within a Show. As a bonus, Mikey Simon's voice actor is Michael Sinterniklaas, setting up a recursive Danza.
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In Grimm the main character called Jacob is played by Jacob Derwig.
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The Tall Guy has a borderline example with Rowan Atkinson as Ron Anderson, Dexter King's comedy partner. Reportedly, when Richard Curtis, formerly the straight man in a double-act with Atkinson, sent him the script, Atkinson asked which part he was up for.
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The Monkees: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith, were played by Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith.
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In the live-action Scooby-Doo (2002) movies, Fred is played by Freddie Prinze Jr. Possibly a Casting Gag.
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José Alberto Rodríguez Chucuan as Alberto Del Rio and Alberto el Patrón.
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Although the character existed long before the actress who played her, in an early film version of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley was played by... Anne Shirley (which was the actress's stage name). The actress, née Dawn Evelyeen Paris, adopted the stage name as a consequence of being cast in the movie. She had been previously acting as Dawn O'Day.
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In Observe and Report the twin security guards John and Matt are played by John and Matthew Yuan.
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Jorge González as Giant González
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SpongeBob SquarePants reveals that the titular character's favorite Old Superheroes', Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's, real names are Ernie and Tim respectively. Their respective voice actors are Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway. (Though it's a retcon in Barnacle Boy's case since a previous episode established his first name was Kyle).
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In It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, John Clegg played Gunner Jonathan Graham.
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Alexis Kaufman as Alexa Bliss.
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Basic Instructions: The characters based on Scott Meyer, his wife Missy, and his friend Ric, traced from photos of them, are named Scott, Missy, and Rick. Several other characters ended up this way; most notably, the character drawn from photos of a guy named Graham was briefly referred to as "Smitty" before just becoming Graham for the rest of the strip.
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A computer expert in Phantom 2040, voiced by Harlan Ellison(!) was named after one of Ellison's pseudonyms: Cordwainer Bird.
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In Men in Black II, it's ambiguous whether Michael Jackson is playing himself or a fictional character in his cameo — but he's an aspiring MIB agent who wants to become "Agent M".
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Welcome to Night Vale:
Cecil Palmer is voiced by Cecil Baldwin. Until episode 34, the general assumption was that character and actor shared the same surname as well. Amusingly enough, Baldwin didn't actually know the character's name at first (the credits just listed him as "The Voice of Night Vale", and it wasn't really important). A few episodes in the script finally revealed his name was Cecil, and Baldwin had to go check with the creator to find out whether or not NV-Cecil was meant to be someone other than himself.
It's pretty common on WTNV. Intern Maureen is played by Maureen Johnson, Kevin is played by Kevin R. Free, and Lauren Mallard is played by Lauren Sharp.
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In Blue Is the Warmest Color:
The protagonist Clémentine is renamed Adèle after her actress Adèle Exarchopoulos because the director included scenes where the actress wasn't acting for the camera and was being called by name by the crew, feeling it was very natural and suited the movie.
Averted by Léa Seydoux. She refused to have her character's name be changed to her own name as one of the conditions she had for playing the part of Emma. Among these other conditions are: she will not smoke real cigarettes because she has quit smoking two years before, she will not have real sex on camera, and she will not wear her own clothes for the film. Apart from these, she said that she is ready to do anything that Kechiche will require her for any of the scenes.
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In Final Space, Ash Graven is voiced by Ashly Burch.
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The late John Monton as Big John Studd
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Team Fortress 2: Supplemental material has revealed that the Administrator's real name is Helen, a clear nod to her voice actress, Ellen McLain.
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UFO (1970) had several first-name Danzas: Ed Bishop played Ed Straker, Gabrielle Drake (nicknamed "Gay" by her agent) played Gay Ellis, Keith Alexander played Keith Ford and Peter Gordeno played Peter Carlin. Also, "The Psychobombs" featured a last-name Danza, Lt. Blythe played by Peter Blythe. There's also a borderline case with Ayshea Broughs, whose character is never referred to by name, and is credited only as "SHADO operative", but according to the script is called Ayshea Johnson.
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Matthew Santoro is played by a man named Matthew Santoro.
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Happened the other way around in The Caine Mutiny. Donna Lee Hickey, who played May Wynn, liked the name so much that she adopted it as her stage name. (May Wynn is a stage name in the original novel).
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In the Doctor Who stage play Seven Keys to Doomsday, the companions were going to be called Dave and Jenny; but when James Mathews was cast, his character was renamed Jimmy. Later stage revivals reverted to "Dave", but in the Big Finish audio version he's "Jimmy" again.
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The dub of Digimon Adventure 02 renamed the Australian boy Dingo as "Derek", voiced by Derek Stephen Prince.
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Staff Sergeant Griggs in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is voiced by and modeled after Mark Grigsby. Most of the Red Shirt allies in the games' American campaigns are likewise named after other dev team members.
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Peter Serafinowicz as Pete in Shaun of the Dead. Lampshaded (sort of) in an outtake included on the DVD, in which Simon Pegg and Nick Frost refer to the character by the actor's full name while delivering their dialogue.
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The Murders: Actor Terry Chen plays Bill Chen.
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The late Frederick Blassman as "Classy" Freddie Blassie
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In Henry Danger, recurring antagonist Frankini is played by Frankie Grande (who is incidentally the older brother of singer and former Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande).
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The Magic Door: Liam is played by Liam Matthews.
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Patricia Stratigeas as Trish Stratus
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Subverted on the UPN show Eve, where the rapper Eve's character was named... Shelley. (The series was originally called The Opposite Sex until the title change.)
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Aya Stanford from Future GPX Cyber Formula SIN is voiced by Aya Hisakawa.
In the Korean dub of the same series, Hayato Kazami was renamed as Gang Jin-u who is voiced in Korean by Gang Su-jin
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In Seven (1979), martial artist Ed Parker plays a martial artist named Ed Parker. It's not clear if he is supposed to be playing himself, or a different character who happens to have the same name.
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Elie Docter as young Ellie in Up.
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Ladies of the Chorus: Rand Brooks as Randy Carroll.
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The Wire:
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson is played by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson — who also happens to be a former Baltimore drug dealer with a conviction for second-degree murder.
Also Detective Ed(ward) Norris is played by Ed Norris, former Baltimore City chief of police (Cast List).
And while Jay Landsman is played by Delaney Williams, from Season 3 the character Dennis Mello is played by Jay Landsman.
Well-renowned attorney Billy Murphy more-or-less As Himself playing the role of Clay Davis's lawyer.
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The Blue Iguana has Yano Anaya as Yano, as we learn during a Given Name Reveal at the end.
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CSI:
Not a main character, but Archie Johnson, played by Archie Kao.
Also David Phillips, played by David Berman.
In the episode "A Kiss Before Frying", guest star Dita Von Teese works as nude dancer under the name Rita Von Squeeze.
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Seven of Seven has Nana Suzuki voiced by Nana Mizuki. This is probably intentional (at least the surname, the name Nana is a pun on the show's title).
Speaking of Nana Mizuki, she also plays Nanami Takatsuki from Dog Days and Nanami Madobe, a.k.a. Windows 7-tan.
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Justin Long played Justin in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story.
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Money Movers has Bryan Brown as Brian Jackson. This is almost certainly a coincidence as Brian was a very common Australian name at the time.
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In True Lies, Jean-Claude Parachino plays a bit part as... Jean-Claude. He's the guy who records the lines Harry plays back when Helen poses as a prostitute in the suite.
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Hamster & Gretel:
Carolina Ravassa voices Carolina Grant-Gomez.
Kevin's crush Hiromi is voiced by Romi Dames (whose full name is Hiromi).
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On Workaholics, Blake Anderson plays Blake Henderson, Adam DeVine plays Adam Demamp, Anders Holm plays Anders Holmvik, Jillian Bell plays Jillian Belk, Waymond Lee plays Waymond, Kyle Newachek plays Karl Hevachek, Jet Set Hudson plays Jet Set and Billy Stevenson plays Bill.
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Page Falkinburg as Diamond Dallas Page. He's since legally changed his name to Dallas Page.
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The Danza
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His character's name in Witless Protection? Larry.
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The Danza / int_cf5cd7a
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The Danza
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In Desperado, Steve Buscemi plays a character called "Buscemi".
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The Danza
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All three leads in The Blair Witch Project.
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 The Blair Witch Project
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The Danza
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Vanessa Duvelle in SpyHunter 2 (the sequel to the remake, not the arcade game) was based on Vanessa Carlton, who sang the game's theme tune.
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The Danza
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The Original Series novel Crucible: Kirk - The Star To Every Wandering gives Antonia from Star Trek: Generations the surname Salvatori, after actress Lynn Salvatori.
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 Star Trek: Generations
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The Danza
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Keisuke Kato as Keisuke Nago/Kamen Rider IXA in Kamen Rider Kiva. Yui Koike, who went on to play GokaiPink, appeared as Yui Aoyama in the final episode of Kamen Rider Double.
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The Danza / int_d120122a
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The Danza
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Two throwaway examples in the first ten minutes of Ghostbusters (1984): Alice Drummond plays Alice the librarian, and Jennifer Runyon is Jennifer, a test subject whom Dr. Venkman just wants to date, causing him to compromise scientific integrity.
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The Danza
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George Lopez in The George Lopez Show. George's boss Jack Powers was portrayed by Jack Blessing.
George Lopez also played a different George Lopez in the short-lived 2014 sitcom Saint George.
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The Danza
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Chris Spardin as Chris Hero
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The Danza
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Several minor characters on One Tree Hill were guilty of this: Bevin Prince portrayed the character of Bevin Mirskey and Antwon Tanner played Antwon "Skills" Taylor, both of whom were part of the show for several years. In a much smaller case, bartender/musician Grubbs was played by real-life musician Michael Grubbs.
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Almost every single bloody sketch on French and Saunders has Dawn and Jennifer as... Dawn and Jennifer. Even in the film spoofs.note Giving us Dawn and Jennifer playing hammier versions of themselves playing their characters as themselves.
Oh, and also Jen in Girls on Top.
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The Danza
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Twister with Bill Harding (Bill Paxton)
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1.0
 The Danza / int_d4ab5d5a
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1.0
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The Danza
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The Essential Book of K9 includes a short story which gives K9's creator Professor Marius (played by Frederick Jaeger in "The Invisible Enemy") the first name of Frederick.
 The Danza / int_d4fe0095
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The Danza / int_d4fe0095
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The Danza
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Glitch Techs: Not completely so, but Zahra has an almost identical name to her voice actress Zehra Fazal.
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1.0
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The Danza / int_d53f06fc
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The Danza
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One Danza that is not the main character (and isn't their biggest part in the show) is Cree Lincoln from Codename: Kids Next Door who is voiced by Cree Summer, who also voices her little sister, Abby/Numbuh 5). Another minor character, Numbuh 362, is voiced by Rachael MacFarlane and given the name Rachel.
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1.0
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 Codename: Kids Next Door
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The Danza / int_d69208d2
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The Danza
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Ben Vereen as Mayor Ben in Zoobilee Zoo.
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1.0
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The Danza / int_d6bcbb88
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The Danza
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From Justin to Kelly stars Justin Guarini as Justin Bell (a full-name Danza; Guarini is his stage name) and Kelly Clarkson as Kelly Taylor.
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1.0
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The Danza / int_d6f0158f
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The Danza
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Finian's Rainbow has a harmonica-playing minor character named Sunny, originally played by Sonny Terry.
 The Danza / int_d70bc477
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1.0
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The Danza / int_d70bc477
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The Danza
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In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has Titus Andromedon, played by Tituss Burgess. Zigzagged when we later find out that his birth name was Ronald Effin Wilkerson.
 The Danza / int_d80d2982
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 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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The Danza
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Before he became Damien Sandow, Aaron Steven Haddad as Aaron Stevens. Now back to being The Danza, first as Aron Rex in Impact Wrestling and then Aron Stevens in the NWA.
 The Danza / int_d81e3d2d
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 The Danza / int_d81e3d2d
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 Damien Sandow (Wrestling)
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The Danza / int_d81e3d2d
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The Danza
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Bizarre example: The characters of Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 are all first-name Danzas. It had been originally intended for them to be full-name Danzas, carrying on the previous film's gimmick of "No, this is really happening to the actual people you see on film", but the director decided this was "dishonest" and changed their last names — he would have changed their first names too, but too much of the movie had already been filmed. The change was made so late in the day, however, that the new last names only appear in the credits, and we see the actor's last names on-screen briefly in a police report.
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The Danza
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In the Swedish film, Pelle the Conqueror, the title role was played by Pelle Hvenegaard. Hvenegaard was actually named for the character since his parents were fans of the book the movie was based on.
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The Danza
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Elizabeth Koncianski-Copeland as Beth Phoenix.
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 Edge (Wrestler) (Wrestling)
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The Danza / int_d8b3ca2a
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The Danza
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Kendall Knight, James Diamond, Carlos Garcia, and Logan Mitchell in Big Time Rush are named after their respective actors Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos Pena, and Logan Henderson.
 The Danza / int_d8cc01de
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The Danza / int_d8cc01de
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The Danza
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All the known real names of the girls in Majisuka Gakuen are the actresses' real names, but in-universe most of them are Only Known by Their Nickname.
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The Danza
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Lego DC Batman: Family Matters sees Jason Spisak voice Jason Todd/Red Hood.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_d93b70ff
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1.0
 LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes
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The Danza / int_d93b70ff
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The Danza
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In Into the Woods, Lucinda is played by Lucy Punch
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 Into the Woods
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The Danza / int_d940dc6f
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The Danza
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Veronica Mars had a surname Danza appearance by Patty Hearst, playing Selma Hearst Rose, the granddaughter of millionaire Mr. Hearst, married to Bud Rose.
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 Veronica Mars
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The Danza / int_da861da1
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The Danza
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Baywatch: A great many one-shot guests kept their actors' full names. One such character goes on to become a regular (Michael Newman, aka Michael "Newmie" Newman. Blazing a trail for Donna D'Errico as Donna Marco, and Jason Momoa as Jason Ioane.
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 Baywatch
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The Danza / int_dac2531c
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The Danza
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Nancy Goes To Rio: Scotty Beckett as Scotty Sheridan.
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1.0
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1.0
 Nancy Goes To Rio
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The Danza / int_dad058d0
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The Danza
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In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Madeline Stuart (director Mel Stuart's daughter) plays Madeline Durkin, the girl in Charlie Bucket's class who tells Mr. Turkentine she opened "about 100" Wonka bars.
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The Danza / int_dad73e07
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The Danza
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In Daredevil (Charles Soule) run, there's a recurring cop character modeled on Deborah Ann Woll's real-life boyfriend E.J. Scott, named..."Officer Scott"◊.
 The Danza / int_db81ee3a
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1.0
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The Danza / int_db81ee3a
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The Danza
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In Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, all four heroes (Red changes midseason, actor's contract ran out) share a given name with their actors.
 The Danza / int_dbe77265
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 The Danza / int_dbe77265
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 Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan
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The Danza / int_dbe77265
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The Danza
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Doctor... Series:
Jill from Doctor at Sea was played by Jill Adams.
Caterina - the wife in the French Film Within a Film in Doctor in Clover - is played by Catherine Feller.
Mr. Fleming from Doctor in Trouble was played by Michael Fleming.
 The Danza / int_dbf05cf0
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 The Danza / int_dbf05cf0
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 Doctor... Series
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The Danza / int_dbf05cf0
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The Danza
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On True Blood, Sam Merlotte is played by actor Sam Trammell—a coincidence since the character was named by Charlaine Harris, author of the novels on which the show is based.
 The Danza / int_dc4363c5
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dc4363c5
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 True Blood
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The Danza / int_dc4363c5
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The Danza
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In Book Girl, Miyu Irino provides the voice of Konoha, whose pen name is Miu Inoue.
 The Danza / int_dd0df632
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dd0df632
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 Book Girl
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The Danza / int_dd0df632
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The Danza
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In Dani's House, Max is played by Sebastian Applewhite. His middle name is Sebastian (S 4 E 7). And of course, Dani Hamner as Dani.
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 Dani's House
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The Danza / int_dd1997cc
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The Danza
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Nicholas Parsons in The Comic Strip Presents episode "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door".
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dd1b673f
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1.0
 The Comic Strip Presents
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The Danza / int_dd1b673f
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The Danza
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In the first two Air Buddies movies, the Buddies' mother Molly is voiced by Molly Shannon. (This is the coincidence version since Molly first appeared in Air Bud: World Pup, where the canine characters were unvoiced.)
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dd2e2c34
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1.0
 Air Buddies
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The Danza / int_dd2e2c34
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The Danza
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Ken Anderson as Ken Kennedy (Kennedy!).
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1.0
 The Danza / int_ddf57d03
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1.0
 Ken Anderson (Wrestling)
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The Danza / int_ddf57d03
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The Danza
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Maria Thayer as Rory Thayer in Accepted.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_de096121
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1.0
 Accepted
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The Danza / int_de096121
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The Danza
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Dianne Wiest as Dianne Booker in The Horse Whisperer.
 The Danza / int_de1d82e9
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1.0
 The Danza / int_de1d82e9
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1.0
 The Horse Whisperer
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The Danza / int_de1d82e9
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The Danza
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Most of the Kids Incorporated kids. When a No Name Given character had his name revealed in an episode, it was that of the actor Rahsaan Patterson.
 The Danza / int_deb36db8
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1.0
 The Danza / int_deb36db8
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1.0
 Kids Incorporated
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The Danza / int_deb36db8
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_ded1e4f5
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Marlon and Shawn Wayans as Marlon and Shawn Williams in The Wayans Bros..
 The Danza / int_ded1e4f5
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1.0
 The Danza / int_ded1e4f5
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 The Wayans Bros.
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The Danza / int_ded1e4f5
 The Danza / int_dee0be3a
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The Danza
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La Tour Montparnasse infernale has Éric Judor and Ramzy Bedia as Éric and Ramzy.
 The Danza / int_dee0be3a
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dee0be3a
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1.0
 La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
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The Danza / int_dee0be3a
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The Danza
 The Danza / int_dfc5ad2f
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AFK: Ivan Essin plays Vanya (Vanya is a nickname for Ivan-it's basically "Johnny" for "John").
 The Danza / int_dfc5ad2f
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1.0
 The Danza / int_dfc5ad2f
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1.0
 AFK (Web Video)
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The Danza / int_dfc5ad2f
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The Danza
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In American Idiot, the rock opera featuring Green Day's music, the main character Johnny was named after the actor who plays him — John "Johnny" Gallagher Jr.
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 The Danza / int_dfe00c38
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 American Idiot (Music)
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The Danza
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Kick-Ass has Christopher Mintz-Plasse playing Christopher "Chris" D'Amico aka Red Mist, later The Motherfucker, and Stu Riley playing Stu.
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1.0
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 Kick-Ass
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The Danza
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Derek Van Der Lint as Derek Raine in Poltergeist: The Legacy.
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 Poltergeist: The Legacy
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The Danza / int_e08a8569
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The Danza
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In Home Alone 3 the lead character is named Alex after the actor portraying him, Alex D. Linz.
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1.0
 The Danza / int_e098e5f1
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1.0
 Home Alone 3
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The Danza / int_e098e5f1
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The Danza
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The Expendables 2 villain Jean Vilain shares part of Jean-Claude Van Damme's given name.
 The Danza / int_e125e86e
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1.0
 The Danza / int_e125e86e
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 The Expendables 2
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The Danza / int_e125e86e
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The Danza
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In The Tomorrow People (1973) Elizabeth was played by Elizabeth Adare and Mike by Michael Holloway.
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 The Danza / int_e13b1e82
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 The Tomorrow People (1973)
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The Danza / int_e13b1e82
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The Danza
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Out of This World (1987): Half the cast would use their own names for their characters; Donna Pescow as Donna Garland, Buzz Belmondo as Buzz, and Peter Petofsky as Peter.
 The Danza / int_e163285d
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 The Danza / int_e163285d
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 Out of This World (1987)
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show had Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards and Ted Knight as Ted Baxter.
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Sara Amato as Sara Del Rey
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Chika's name comes from her voice provider, Chiaki Ito from AAA.
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Buffy:
Larry Bagby III as Larry Blaisdell, although the character was named before Larry Bagby III was cast. Bagby joked that he should get the part because the character was named for him.
Robin Wood is played by D.B. Woodside.
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Before becoming Asuka, Kanako Urai wrestled as KANA.
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The Quintessential Quintuplets: Middle sister Miku Nakano is voiced by Miku It�.
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Kris Statlander wrestled as a Jobber named Kristen in WWE.
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Felix from the Till Death Us Do Part episodes "Christmas Club Books" and "The Window" was played by Felix Bowness.
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Richard Fliehr is better known as Ric Flair. And his three children who went into the business—David, Reid (now deceased), and Ashley—also use the "Flair" name, with Ashley known instead as Charlotte Flair. (Incidentally, "Flair" is how the family pronounces its name.)
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Pretty Cure:
In Futari wa Pretty Cure, Akane Fujita is voiced by Mikako Fujita.
HappinessCharge Pretty Cure! has Megumi Aino, played by Megumi Nakajima. Funny enough, Hime's voice actress is also named Megumi.
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Hollyoaks:
In order to promote Summer Strallen taking over the lead role in The Sound of Music on the West End, its producer Andrew Lloyd Webber had her written into the show as a character called Summer Shaw. The character was then talent spotted by Lloyd Webber appearing as himself on the show.
Cameron Moore has twice been a Danza on Hollyoaks: first as the face of "Cameron", a guy India Longford met online (but who turns out to have been a fake profile created by Silas Blissett to lure and murder her), later as the character Cameron Campbell.
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"O": Le Vieux, the emcee, was long known as Eugen after original performer Eugene Brim.
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Chuck Campbell plays Chuck the Gate Tech on Stargate Atlantis, though this may actually have been a mistake. The character was without a name for quite a while, and it's rumored that another actor dropped his name into a line. He is, however, later called Chuck again by another character. Notable in that fans had been calling him Chuck the Gate Tech (or, alternately, "Chucknician") for some time previous.
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In K-On!, Mugi shares her last name (Kotobuki) with that of her voice actress, Minako Kotobuki. Definitely a coincidence though, seeing how the manga came first. Now, if they could have gotten Hikaru Kotobuki from P-Model to (somehow) play the role... note For those who don't know, the members of Houkago Tea Time are all named after members of P-Model, while other notable cast members are named after members of The Pillows.
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe has Bernard Blier as Colonel Bernard Milan.
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Paddy from Phoenix Nights is played by Patrick "Paddy" McGuinness, who when the show began had no acting experience and was given the role on the strength of being Peter Kay's good friend; ostensibly, his character shared his name because neither he nor Kay was confident that he would be able to react naturally to a different one.
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He also played John L. Bridges in Heaven's Gate, a character that's supposed to be his own great-grandfather dropped into the semi-fictional storyline.
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The Three Stooges were almost always this in their films. The names were a bit of a change situation but were their main professional ones. The Horowitz boys were Moses ('Moe'), Jerome (nicknamed 'Curly' for his hair after his then-current nickname 'Babe' was taken), and Samuel (their mother's attempts to say it ended up as 'Shemp', and it stuck). Louis Feinberg had already taken the name 'Larry Fine' before joining the act. Joe Besser was the only one who didn't have to change anything at all. Joseph Wardell had used 'Joe DeRita' well before meeting the Stooges. Emil Sitka would've been the only one to make a name out of whole cloth ('Harry'), but the act died (with Moe) before any films could be made. RARE exceptions include Woman Haters (the first short, and part of another lineup of films Columbia was doing; they had character names) and the rare time when they would play actual others (opposite themselves), especially in drag.
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The main characters of the sketch show Hello Cheeky all shared the name of their actor. The characters were also treated as the real actors, blending this with As Himself.
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Diane Martin, the first Miss America, in Battle Fever J. Both the character and the actress are called Diane Martin.
Mai Ooishi as Mai Tsubasa in Dengeki Sentai Changeman
Megumi Mori as Megumi Misaki in Choujuu Sentai Liveman
In Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, all four heroes (Red changes midseason, actor's contract ran out) share a given name with their actors.
There's a weird aversion in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. There's the character Tetsu, whose full name is actually Tekkan Aira. However, Tetsu Inada is not Tetsu's actor, but voice acting Doggie Kruger instead.
In Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the pink ranger, Kasumi Momochi, is played by Kasumi Yamaya.
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There's a weird aversion in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. There's the character Tetsu, whose full name is actually Tekkan Aira. However, Tetsu Inada is not Tetsu's actor, but voice acting Doggie Kruger instead.
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Deadly Class:
Maria Gabriela de Faria as Maria Esperanza Salazar.
Juan Grey as Juan.
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Joseph Ryan Meehan as Joey Ryan
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Akai's opponent Tooru Amuro is named after both, Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam and his voice actor Tōru Furuya. Furuya eventually voices Tooru Amuro. This name turns out to be a fake, and his real name is Rei Furuya, still named after both, Amuro Ray and Toru Furuya.
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In Hypnospace Outlaw, internet musician Erik "Hot Dad" Helwig plays the role of internet musician Erick "Chowder Man" Helman, while the tracks for Ray "Basidia" Dolan are written and performed by Jay Tholen. In a downplayed example, Swedish musician Casper Sunderberg is portrayed by Californian musician Chris Schlarb; note the initials.
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Bunheads has a student at the ballet academy named Matisse, played by dancer/actress Matisse Love.
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Pigeon Man," Vincent Schiavelli voices the Pigeon Man, who tells Arnold, "You can call me Vincent."
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Reggae singer Willi One Blood plays a henchman in The Professional. Stansfield calls him "Blood", and another character calls him "Willi".
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Family Guy had the late Adam West, obviously.
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Interesting example: the developers of The Walking Dead (Telltale) held a contest for the game. The winner of the contest, Brie Rosenholm, was awarded by getting a virtual double named after her to appear in the game, and this being The Walking Dead, overlapping with Death by Cameo.
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In the Norwegian dub of Amphibia, Marcy (who is renamed Malin in the dub) is voiced by Malin Pettersen.
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Amanda Rose Saccomanno as Mandy Rose.
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Before becoming Sasha Banks, Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado wrestled as Mercedes KV. Once she left WWE, she began wrestling as Mercedes Moné.
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Trinity Fatu (née McCray) wrestled as Trinity Starr before going by Naomi. Once she lives WWE, she began wrestling as Trinity.
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Third Watch had paramedics Bobby Caffey and Kim Zambrano played by... Bobby Cannavale and Kim Raver. The minor firefighter characters shared their full names with their actors: Firefighter Billy Walsh was played by Bill Walsh, Derek "DK" Kitson by Derek Kelly.
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Oscar's Orchestra character Eric The Triangle was voiced by one Eric Meyers.
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Bolt provides a variation: the titular dog stars in the Bolt TV show, where he plays (or more accurately, has been convinced he is) a superpowered dog named Bolt. His owner, who's adopted Bolt some time before the show and who plays Penny in the same show, is another variant: while her real name is never spoken by any humans outside the show, the show uses Enforced Method Acting to convince Bolt everything in the show is real, so her real name is probably also Penny.
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Guy Hadley as Guy Graham on Disney's version of Doug.
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One of the strangest examples: in Major Dundee, Charlton Heston (whose real name was John Charles Carter) shares a middle name with character, Major Amos Charles Dundee.
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Prince Kaguya: Shouta Aoi plays Aoi, Kaguya's birth mother.
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Comedian Joel Hodgson as Joel Robinson (from Robinson Crusoe and Lost in Space) in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The last name was only changed because Hodgson was considered hard to pronounce. Michael J. Nelson, his replacement... played Mike Nelson. And "TV's Frank" was played by Frank Conniff. In the 2017 continuation, Jonah J. Heston is played by comedian Jonah Ray.
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Mayko Tran on ReGenesis is played by Mayko Ngyuen.
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Half the cast of Marble Hornets does this. We have Tim, Jessica, Brian, and Seth. Played by Tim Sutton, Jessica May, Brian Haight, and Seth McCay.
Brian is a double example. In the original Marble Hornets film, he would be playing a character named Brian.
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Mai Ooishi as Mai Tsubasa in Dengeki Sentai Changeman
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Two of Station 51's firefighters in Emergency!, Marco Lopez and Mike Stoker, simply used the actor's name. Stoker, the driver of Engine 51, actually was an LA County firefighter at the time of filming (he retired in 1996), because the fire department wanted the engine on the show to be operated by a certified driver rather than risk an actor damaging it. They thought Marco's name just sounded like a firefighter's.
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Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, who was named Elisabeth Janeway and Nicole Janeway before actress Katherine Kiernan Maria 'Kate' Mulgrew suggested Kathryn.
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Assassin's Creed III: The voice actress for Kaniehtí:io, Connor's Mohawk mother, is Kaniehtiio Horn.
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Street Fighter:
Makoto in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is voiced by Makoto Tsumura. She reprised her role as her Japanese voice actress in Super Street Fighter IV.
As of Street Fighter V, Ed's English voice actor has been Edward Bosco. This was averted during his appearance in Balrog's Super SFIV ending, where he was younger and voiced by Laura Bailey.
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Heath Miller as Heath Slater
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Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown on Primeval.
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Legends of Tomorrow:
Almost a case with Hawkgirl. Her real name is "Chay-Ara" (pronounced somewhere between "Shay-arra" and "Shee-arra"), and her actress has the similar first name "Ciara" (pronounced "See-arra"). Since Chay-Ara is a character from the comics, this is entirely a coincidence, presuming Ciara Renée wasn't hired for her name.
Ramona Young plays Mona Wu, an original character presumably named after her actress.
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Out With Dad: "New Vanessa" is portrayed by Vanessa Salazar.
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Charmed once had a chameleon demon named Alastair, played by Alastair Duncan.
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The 2018 reboot of Charmed has Melonie Diaz playing Mel Vera, and Jordan Donica playing Jordan Chase.
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Tony Micelli in Who's the Boss?
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Darkdrive: Julie Falcon, played by... Julie Benz.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League has Ryan Zheng as Ryan Choi.
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Delores Hall as Nurse Delores Mitchell in Diagnosis: Murder
There was also the episode "Comedy is Murder", in which Tim Conway and Harvey Korman play characters named "Tim Conrad" and "Harvey Huckaby".
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In the dub of Pokémon 3, Lisa Ortiz voices Lisa (Rin in the Japanese version). Could possibly have been named after her.
Since TPCi took over the dubbing rights in season 9, James is voiced by James Carter Cathcart.
In Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, Shoko Nakagawa voices a character named Proof. The Japanese word for proof is "shouko" (written with different kanji than Nakagawa's first name). According to Nakagawa's book, this was intentional.
Half this trope and half-Tuckerization, the Johto episode "Power Play!" (EP171) features a brief battle between Gary Oak and a Trainer from Cherrygrove City named Noboru. In the English dub, his voice is provided by one Alex Davis, the winner of a British competition at the time, and the character's dub name is shared with his VA.
It took nineteen seasons for the Latin-Spanish dub to get a Danza, with character of the day Emilio being voiced by Emilio Treviño.
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An episode of My Two Dads had a guest appearance by Scott Baio as Scott Cameo.
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A case of the almost-Danza: The character of Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible was written for actor Martin Landau, and was almost named "Martin Land". These are something of a fictionalized version of as themselves
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Lunchlady Doris was originally voiced by script supervisor Doris Grau. Grau also voiced Doris Grossman, Jay Sherman's makeup lady on The Critic.
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Axe Murdering with Hackley: The character Hackley is played by Allen Hackley.
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Shiraishi also played an aspiring voice actor named Shiraishi in Kiddy GiRL-AND.
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In-universe example: In an episode of Friends, Ross encourages Joey to write a play for himself to star in, prompting the following exchange:
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Darren O'Shaughnessy (who usually writes under the pen name Darren Shan) is best known for a book series about a young vampire named Darren Shan.
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Interesting usage in the German kids' show Tom Turbo. Many of the kids use their real names for their characters.
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Foster from If It Moves, File It was played by Dudley Foster.
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All three of the central characters in the radio sitcom The Navy Lark had the same names as the actors who played them.
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Babylon 5
Done retroactively with the Centauri Emperor (played by Turhan Bey) and Prime Minister (played by Malachi Throne). When they appeared in the episode "The Coming of Shadows", they were not named and only credited as "Emperor" and "Prime Minister". Later episodes called them "Emperor Turhan" and "Prime Minister Malachi".
In the episode "Learning Curve", Turhan Bey played a Minbari Ranger instructor named Turval, alongside another named Durhan played by Brian McDermott, both of whose names sound like variations on "Turhan".
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In the Polish dub of Chicken Little Melvin and Tina are renamed Piotruś and Edytka after their voice actors, Piotr Machalica and Edyta Olszówka.
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In the Greek dub of The Little Mermaid (1992), Ariel is voiced by Ariel Konstantinidi.
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In the original production of State of the Union, Kay Thorndyke was played by Kay Johnson.
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John Hennigan as Johnny Nitro, John Morrison, Johnny Mundo, Johnny Impact, John Superstar, Johnny Elite, and Johnny TV.
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Midnight Caller has bartender Jerado, played by Jerado Carmona.
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Some of Hollow Knight's NPCs are named after the Kickstarter backers who designed them, e.g. Tiso by Tiso Spencer, Joni by Joni Kunelius, and Marissa by Marissa Brice.
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The kids on You Can't Do That on Television.
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Reggie Banister plays Reggie Banister in all four of the Phantasm films. Also the character of Michael is played by Michael A. Baldwin in the first, third, and fourth installments.
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In Moms' Night Out, Kevin Downes plays a character named Kevin.
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In Cold Creek Manor, Kristen Stewart played a character called Kristen Tilson.
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The human characters on Minilife TV (such as Chris, Ian, or Michael) often have the names of their respective voice actors.
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My Dinner with Andre has Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory playing...well, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory. However, the actors, who wrote the script, have repeatedly stated that the characters in the film are not representative of their real-life personalities.
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Susan Hegarty as the Rescue Lady from Lilo & Stitch. While her name is not verbally mentioned, it does appear on Lilo's adoption paper for Stitch.
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The short-lived yet wildly popular Broadway musical [title of show]. In fact, the show takes it up a notch with it being "a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical" (guess how many guys wrote this musical?) and the song "I Am Playing Me."
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Before Paul Levesque became Hunter Hearst Helmsley in WWF, he was Jean-Paul Levesque in WCW.
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Full Metal Panic! has a version that crosses with Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: The original light novels note that the AI in Kurz's Arm Slave is named "Yukari" and based on a Japanese idol, complete with its voice being based on samples of said idol. When the AI "appears" in The Second Raid, it's voiced by Yukari Tamura, implying that she was Kurz's inspiration.
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Another last name version, in the Hasbroverse, Minerva shares the same last name as her Japanese voice actress Yuriko Yamamoto.
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In Psycho-Pass, we were given Hiroko Fuji, a victim who was murdered. She was voiced by Hiro Nakajima, whose real first name was Hiroko and she was named after her voice actress.
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Hugh "Lord Grantham" Bonneville, playing Hugh Barton in the Midsomer Murders episode "Ring Out Your Dead".
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Dragan Mićanović plays a Serbian gangster, Dragan, in Layer Cake, and amusingly enough, is The Dragon.
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The Latin American dub of Hamtaro has Kana (renamed Karla) voiced by Karla Falcon.
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In The Muppets Robin Hood, Janice/Willa Scarlet thinks the narrator is a voice in her head which she calls Jerry. The intent is presumably that he's this setting's version of the announcer from The Muppet Show, voiced by the late Jerry Nelson.
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Night Court:
Harry Anderson as Harry Stone is a subversion. According to series creator Reinhold Weege, the character was already called Harry, already a magician, and already a devoted Mel Tormé fan before Anderson was cast.
Selma Diamond as Bailiff Selma Hacker and her replacement Bailiff Florence Kleiner played by Florence Halop.
Charles Robinson shares the same last name as his character Mac Robinson.
One could also argue Yakov Smirnoff as Yakov Korplenko.
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 Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater (Manga) / int_1b73fd6c
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 Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman (Manga) / int_1b73fd6c
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 INFINITE (Music) / int_1b73fd6c
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 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_1b73fd6c
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 MostlyHarmless
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 Power Rangers S.P.D. / int_1b73fd6c
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 Dungeons / Videogame / int_1b73fd6c
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 Mighty Magiswords (Web Animation) / int_1b73fd6c
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 Siblings (Web Animation) / int_1b73fd6c
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 Mega64 (Web Video) / int_1b73fd6c
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 StarshipFarragut
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 The Funday Pawpet Show (Web Video) / int_1b73fd6c
type
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 VocaloidInTheWalfasverse
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