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[[File:snow_white_stooges_poster_1286snow white stooges poster 1286.jpg|link=Snow White and The Three Stooges|frame|Starring a lady who was trained to skate, not to act.]]
 
 
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* Anime example: woman pro-wrestler Cutey Suzuki as the voice of [[Iczer]]-3. Also happens with (many) singers who take a turn as voice actors/actresses.
* Olympic Swimming champion and male model Johnny Weissmuller as ''[[Tarzan]]: the Ape Man''. His performance proved so successful that [[Typecasting|he was cast in the same role eleven more times]].
* Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby took a turn playing the title character in the ''[[Peter Pan]]'' stage musical in 1974 -- and1974—and did so well that she returned to it in [[The Nineties]] and again in a Branson, MO production in 2009.
* Cellist Yo-Yo Ma in the Atom Egoyan film ''[http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/sara.html Sarabande]''.
* Jackie Robinson in ''The Jackie Robinson Story''.
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