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** Streep has also played more comedic roles as of late, including Queen Bitch Miranda Priestly in ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]'' and hamming it up as Julia Child in ''[[Julie and Julia]]''.
* ''[[Awake (film)|Awake]]'': ''[[Jessica Alba]]'' is part of the plot to kill the protagonist.
* You remember Kate Capshaw? That annoying [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]] from ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' who was always screaming and getting into trouble and needed Indy to get her out. Among her lesser known roles is a 1987 made-for-tv film called ''The Quick and the Dead'' (nothing to do with the [[The Quick and the Dead|Sam Raimi film]]) where she actually plays a strong-willed, independent woman who becomes an [[Action Girl]] by the end.
* Action icon/sex symbol [[Sean Connery]] is best known for playing [[Badass]] characters with a lot of grit to them. In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', however, he plays Indiana's father as a bumbling, somewhat aloof, academic pacifist who survives with creativity rather than action skills. Interestingly, he got named "sexiest man alive" the same year ''Last Crusade'' was released.
* Tony Curtis became famous with heroic roles. In ''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]'', he played a skeevy press agent.
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* [[Helena Bonham Carter]] used to play proper English ladies. Then she starred in ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'', and now she's always playing [[Harry Potter (film)|batshit]] [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|insane]] [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|women]] who [[Looks Like Cesare|look like Cesare]].
* Roy Cheung is best known for playing psychopathic triad gangsters and other villains, such that his role as a Shaolin monk in ''[[The Infernal Affairs Trilogy]]'' was very much this.
* James Fox usually plays [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit|Upper Class Twits]] (like Veruca Salt's dad in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]''), but did an excellent (and surprising) turn as a vicious working-class gangster in ''Performance''.
* Sharukh Khan: The bollywood-megastar managed to play really evil characters in Darr, Baazigar and worst of all: Anjaam, in which he scared several people shitless. Somehow he managed to glide over to the romantic-interest/hero roles, which is pretty rare because: Once a villain, always a villain.
* [[Jackie Chan]] in ''[[Shinjuku Incident]]''. When watching this movie don't expect him to pull off any of his high flying kung fu or watching him act like the comedic quirky hero he's normally seen as.
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