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* Proof that [[Borat|Sacha]] [[Bruno|Baron]] [[Da Ali G Show|Cohen]] is an example is the fact he is consistently able to make his candid camera movies without being recognised.
** One should think that people would look through it, given the fact that he's over two meters tall.
* [[Cate Blanchett]] can seemingly effortlessly slip into [[The Aviator|Kathryn Hepburn]], [[I'm Not There|Bob Dylan]], and [[The Lord of the Rings (
* [[Lon Chaney]] is the trope-namer, famed for his ability to transform himself convincingly into a wide variety of grotesque monsters.- and a Marine drill sergeant...
* [[Daniel Day Lewis|Daniel Day-Lewis]] radically alters his appearance, accent and everything else about himself for any role he does. It's pretty insane to compare his appearance in any movie he does beside his appearance receiving the Oscar nomination for said movie.
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** Not to mention [[Sweeney Todd]] (though this one arguably resembles Edward).
* [[Ian Hart]] is Quirrell in ''Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone''. He's a bald assistant in ''Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story''. He has a quite thick NE England accent as a working-class father in the 1930s in ''Liam''. He puts on an American accent for a bit of undercover work in ''Sherlock Holmes and the Silk Stocking'' that sounds nothing like his own voice (personally, I didn't think it was him for the first several seconds).
* [[
* [[Alec Guinness]] played many roles - once, in ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', no less than ''eight'', one of them female.
* Paul Muni was, like [[Lon Chaney]], well known for this (even if he's not as well known now). He played Tony Montana in the original ''[[Scarface]]'', [[Yellowface|Wang Lung]] in ''[[The Good Earth]]'', Emile Zola, Juarez, Louis Pastuer, and seven different characters - six of them waxwork mannequins come to life - in ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Eddie Murphy]] deserves a mention if only for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWvDao-MpOk&feature=related this scene]. He plays two people in that room - the obvious one and someone else. Can you guess who?
* [[Gary Oldman]] has absolutely nailed depictions as diverse as Sid Vicious, Lee Harvey Oswald, [[Dracula|Count Dracula]], Beethoven, [[Harry Potter (
* [[Ron Perlman]]: Slade, Vincent, and Hellboy. All the same guy.
* Richard Roxbrugh is known for creating unique voices for the parts he plays. It isn't immediately obvious that he's both Dracula in ''[[Van Helsing]]'' and the evil duke in ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''. BTW he's also played ''both'' Sherlock Holmes ''and'' Professor Moriarty (the latter admittedly in the non-canonical ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' film).
* Both ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' and ''[[
* [[Meryl Streep]] is famed for her versatility, particularly her mastery of accents. Compare, just for example, ''[[
* David Suchet completely nails the "rat-faced" Inspector Japp in the Peter Ustinov [[Hercule Poirot]] film ''Thirteen to Dinner''. He then he goes on to play the dapper Belgian himself in ''[[Poirot]]''. He's also almost unrecognisable as the piratical Reacher Gilt in ''[[Discworld
* [[Tracey Ullman]] can do almost any accent, and play almost any part.
* Hugo Weaving...AKA [[The Lord of the Rings|Elrond]], [[V for Vendetta|V]], [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]], [[Captain America:
* Fictional example: The man who eventually becomes Clayface on ''[[Batman:
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