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Compare [[Cross Dressing Voices]], which is the voice acting equivalent. In a common [[Casting Gag]], you can often expect crosscast roles to cause [[Recursive Crossdressing]]. Contrast with [[Gender Flip]], in which a character is reimagined or rewritten to be the opposite sex, but the actor plays a character of their own sex.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''I'm Not There'' is about six different versions of [[Bob Dylan]]. One of them is played by [[Cate Blanchett]].
* Stephen Chow's ''[[CJ 7]]'' features a girl in the role of ''his son''.
* All versions of ''[[Hairspray]]'' feature a man as Edna Turnblad (the most recent one is [[John Travolta (Creator)]]).
* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'', Michael J. Fox plays [[Acting for Two|most of the members of Marty's future family]], including his daughter.
* In [[Eddie Murphy]]'s ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'', Murphy plays most of his family, including the main character's mother and grandmother.
* In ''[[The Gamers]]: Dorkness Rising'', Gary's actor plays [[Deep
* {{spoiler|Eli}} in [[Let the Right One In]] is played by Lina Leandersson. {{spoiler|Eli is actually a castrated boy.}} The audition for the role was open both to girls and boys.
* A strange [[In Universe]] example in ''[[Farewell My Concubine]]'', in which the actor who plays the concubine in the titular [[Show Within a Show]] is a [[Camp Gay|very effeminate gay man]].
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** ''[[Full House]]'' inverted that, with Rebecca having played Romeo at an all-girls school.
** ''[[Home Improvement]]'' played with this in that it wasn't the joke itself, but rather just an excuse for Jill and Wilson (who both had experience playing Juliet) to fight over who would help Randy practice the "Romeo" role.
** Also played with on the ''[[
{{quote| '''Liz Lemon:''' Yeah, I did plays in high school too. I was John Proctor in ''[[The Crucible]].'' <br />
'''Nancy:''' You went to an all-girls school? <br />
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* And ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' also does this, for the same reasons as ''[[Kids in The Hall]]'', although men-playing-women was never part of the joke. (Except with Barbara, of course.)
* As does ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'', on occasion.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TV)|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' has the disadvantage of not even being able to rely on costumes. [[Butt Monkey|Colin]] usually gets stuck playing the woman.
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers]]'' series often have male stunt actors portraying the female heroes while in costume, even without taking into account the times when [[She's a Man In Japan]]. Motokuni Nakagawa has even earned the nickname of "Mr. Pink" for being in the costume for [[Gekisou Sentai Carranger|Pink Racer]], [[Seijuu Sentai Gingaman|Ginga Pink]], [[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five|Go Pink]], [[Mirai Sentai Timeranger|Time Pink]], and [[Go Go Sentai Boukenger|Bouken Pink]]. Easily the longest-running of these is Yuuichi Hachisuka, who's played three male rangers as well as females from [[Dengeki Sentai Changeman|Change Phoenix]] to [[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters (TV)|Yellow Buster]]!
* Also, many a woman in [[Little Britain]] is portrayed by the main characters. Since most of them are supposed to be rather... unique in appearance it's not much of a stretch.
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* Caryl Churchill's play ''Cloud 9'' has lots of cross-gender (and cross-ethnic) casting in the first act, to emphasize the disconnect between the character's feelings and their outer show. And some in Act II for [[Rule of Funny]].
** Having Cathy (a small girl) played by a grown man in the second act also serves as a metaphor for colonialism, which is a major theme of the show: Cathy is immature and out of control, and because she is actually a full-grown man, her misbehaviour is more of a threat than her identity suggests. It's funny, but it's not quite [[Rule of Funny]].
** There's also Betty, a [[Hysterical Woman|high-strung]], [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery|cuckolded]], [[Evil Matriarch|lady of the house]], who's deliberately played like an over-the-top man in drag a la [[Monty Python]] to show the absurdity of [[Victorian Britain|Victorian gender roles]]. In the second act she's played straight by a woman and pretty much realized she'd been forced to play a caricature most of her life.
* In some Chinese traditional opera troupes, there are no actresses, so all of the female roles are played by men. (''[[Farewell My Concubine]]'' is the story of such a cross-dressing actor.)
* Kim's son Tam in ''Miss Saigon'' has been played by both boys and girls, as the primary requirements for the role are 1) look Asian, 2) be short enough to pass for two years old, and 3) do what the director tells you to.
* The [[Sera Myu]] has many male characters played by woman (Prince Demand, Blue Saphir, Hawk's Eye, Fisheye, Jedite, Kunzite) and one that goes the other way (Petz). The fact that ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' creator Naoko Takeuchi was a fan of Takarazuka Revue (and used it for inspiration for Sailors Uranus and Neptune) and many actress came from or went to the Revue probably helped as well.
* In [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''[[KA]]'', the twin protagonists are [[Half
* [[Harry Potter|Draco Malfoy]] [[Played for Laughs|in]] ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]''.
** {{spoiler|Dolores Umbridge}} in the sequel, as is {{spoiler|Dean}}, who is played by the person who played {{spoiler|Bellatrix}}.
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* In the [[Mickey Mouse]] [[Classic Disney Shorts|short]] "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" (which is about Mickey and the game performing in a play based on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''), Mickey himself not only plays the title role of Uncle Tom, but he also plays Topsy.
* ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'' reverses the women-as-boys trend, with both wife Linda and pubescent daughter Tina being played by men.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode where the protagonists put on a pageant for [[You Mean Xmas|Hearth's Warming Eve]], all the historical figures are portrayed by the (all-female) main cast. At least one role, Commander Hurricane, is heavily implied to have actually been a colt, not a mare.
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