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** Suzie Plakson also has four different ''Trek'' roles, most notably as K'Ehleyr, Worf's brief love interest and mother of Alexander. She also played the Vulcan doctor Selar and Q (but not ''that'' Q).
** Margot Rose played Picard's wife in "The Inner Light" and also showed up in ''Deep Space Nine'''s "Hard Time".
** With the aid of makeup, [[Jeffrey Combs]] had recurring roles as Weyoun and Brunt on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' (once playing both in the same episode although unfortunately the characters didn't share any scenes), Shran on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', and several characters in single episodes of various ''Star Trek''s. Total count (including a cameo in the ''Deep Space Nine'' finale):
*** And things get really complicated when you remember that there was actually a series of Weyouns (clones with pre-loaded personalities). One episode featured two Weyoun clones interacting, albeit through a viewscreen.
** In a rare double-YLF, Merritt Butrick and Judson Scott both appeared in both ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'' and the ''Next Generation'' episode "Symbiosis."
** Marc Alaimo, best known as ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'''s Gul Dukat, is one of the few Trek guest actors to have appeared as a bunch of aliens ''and'' as a human (in "Time's Arrow").
*** In another [[Expanded Universe]] [[Lampshade Hanging]], similar to [[Peter David]]'s Morgan Primus, the ''Deep Space Nine'' novels reveal that Gul Macet, the first Cardassian to appear in ''TNG'' was Dukat's [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|cousin]]. Macet was also played by Alaimo.
** Vaughn Armstrong is probably the record-holder here. He's appeared in every modern Trek series and been a member of eight alien races. He finally landed a recurring
** J.G. Hertzler is another repeat [[Star Trek]] performer. He played several roles on ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'', and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]''. His most well known role is the Klingon General, Martok on ''Deep Space Nine'' - when he made a one-off appearance as an unrelated character between appearances in this role, he was credited as Garman Hertzler.
*** He played a Klingon Lawyer in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' making it a YLF in full Klingon make-up.
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** Woodward is actually one of four [[Joss Whedon]] hat-trick actors - Andy Umberger had both a recurring role as D'Hoffryn on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'', and an early one-shot villain role on ''[[Angel]]'' in "I Fall To Pieces" (with a small role as an Alliance Captain in ''[[Firefly]]''), Carlos Jacott played villain Ken on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' and hilarious villain Richard on ''[[Angel]]'' (before playing an important villain role in the ''[[Firefly]]'' pilot), and Jeff Ricketts played both the character Weatherby in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' in a crossover arc, and a spider monster in ''[[Angel]]'' (along with one of ''[[Firefly]]'''s memorable Blue Gloves).
** Tom Lenk, known for playing Andrew in the evil geek trio during ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'''s sixth season (and beyond), originally appeared in a bit part as one of Harmony's vampire minions.
** A well-known example from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' is Kali Rocha, who first appeared on the show in a minor role in a flashback, playing Cecily, Spike's hopeless crush from his time as a human. Later on she was re-hired in a completely different role as Halfrek, Anya's fellow vengeance demon. Keen-eyed fans, of course, immediately spotted that they were the same actor, and a lot of [[Fanon]] built up over how Cecily could have become Halfrek in the intervening
*** Since this was a retcon due to fans noticing Kali Rocha playing dual roles rather than planned continuity, Cecily = Halfrek created some issues with
** Jeff Kober played the psycho vamp Kralik in the third season episode "Helpless", and later played Rack, the magic pusher who hooked Willow on dark magic during Season Six.
** Brian Thompson played the vampire Luke in the first two episodes, then showed up again in Season 2 as The Judge.
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* Nicholas Lea appeared in an early ''[[The X-Files|X-Files]]'' episode "Gender Bender" playing a character named Michael, then returned later as series regular Alex Krycek.
** However, Terry O'Quinn trumps this, playing Lt. Brian Tillman in the episode "Aubrey", then Special Agent Darius Michaud in the first X-Files movie, and finally a mysterious contact {{spoiler|and super soldier}} in the final season's "Trust No 1".
*** If [[Crossover
** Chris Owens plays three different characters on the show: a young Cigarette-Smoking Man, Jeffrey Spender, and the Great Mutato. Justified in that {{spoiler|the Cigarette-Smoking Man is Jeffrey Spender's father}}. Also, the Great Mutato is under so much make-up that you can't really tell who's playing him.
** Also, before he played Eddie Van Blundht in "Small Potatoes", Darin Morgan made an unrecognisable appearance as the Flukeman in "The Host".
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* ''[[Three's Company]]'' had many, many instances of this, though the most notable was Jeffrey Tambor, who appeared three times as different characters. Syndication makes it four different characters, as two episodes of spinoff ''[[The Ropers]]'' (on which Tambor was a regular) have been added to the ''[[Three's Company]]'' rotation.
* An earlier version of the 'repeat offender' on ''[[Law and Order]]'' occurred on ''[[Barney Miller]]''; many of the one-shot petty criminals and crime victims were played by repeat actors. Before joining the main cast of cops as Sergeant Dietrich, Steve Landesberg had played a criminal-of-the-week.
* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' reused almost all of its character actors throughout its
* All of the supporting cast on ''[[Good Eats]]'' play multiple characters. As this is essentially a [[Cooking Show]] crossed with low-budget [[Sketch Comedy]], that is not surprising.
* Martin Trenaman appears as three different characters in as many episodes of Britcom '15 Storeys High'.
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* Actor Jack Riley appeared on seven episodes of [[Night Court]] playing five different characters.
** Also, Will Utay & John Astin each played a different character in episodes of season 2 (although Astin's character, named Kenny, was quite similar to Buddy) before appearing as [[Bumbling Sidekick|Phil]] & [[Cloudcuckoolander|Buddy]], respectively.
* ''[[According to Jim]]'' used the same guest actor to play Jim's son in [[Imagine Spot
* In ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', Hilary Duff plays one of Carmen's friends and later on, Angie's mentor when she starts selling La Marie cosmetics. Lampshaded when Max says, "You look like one of Carmen's friends."
** Actually, the one where Hilary Duff plays the mentor came out two years before the one where she plays Carmen's friend, so it's more ''[[Hilarious in Hindsight]]''.
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* Two instances on ''[[Happy Days]]'': Lynda Goodfriend was cast as Richie's date Kim a good while before being brought back as his girlfriend-turned-wife Lori Beth Allen in season five. Linda Purl, meanwhile, actually appeared ''before'' Lynda Goodfriend as Richie's girlfriend Gloria in a couple of second season episodes; she returned nearly a decade later as Fonzie's steady Ashley Pfister in the penultimate season.
** And if we're also counting spinoffs, Goodfriend also appeared on ''Happy Days''' forgettable spin-off ''Blansky's Beauties'', alongside a considerably more familiar face -- Scott Baio, who later joined ''Happy Days'' as Fonzie's cousin Chachi.
* On ''[[Bewitched]]'', before he became better known as Dr. Bombay, Bernard Fox played Osgood Rightmire, a witch hunter; and Paul
* Jonathan Winters played Mindy's aunt on ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' a couple of years before joining the cast as Mearth
* [[Made in Canada]]
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* [[Eagles|Joe Walsh]] appears [[As Himself]] in the ''[[The Drew Carey Show|Drew Carey Show]]'' episode "Drewstock" where he's one of the thousands of guests at Drew's house party. The next year he appeared in six episodes as Ed, a [[Dreadful Musician|not very talented guitarist]] Drew hires to be in his band.
* Israeli sitcom [[Ha Pijamot]], which is noted for having [[No Fourth Wall]], uses this thoroughly and lampshades this with one extra. When Yamit mocks extras and insults the one other patron in the Hamburgary at that point, Gary tells her that he was the one extra they keep using over and over, followed by a flashback showing him in the various roles they cast him as over the years. Later on, when Kobi, Ilan, and ‘Oded tell her they want to try finding a job as extras, Yamit makes sure no extras are around, and then says, ‘Extras? That’s the peak of your aspirations?’
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'''Other examples:'''
* [[Sketch Show
** Played with in a ''Catherine Tate Show'' sketch in which [[David Tennant]] guest stars as Lauren Cooper's teacher. She asks "Are you [[Doctor Who|the Doctor?]]"
** ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' stretches it further: almost everyone in a ''single town'' looks like Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith.
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** In ''Revenge of...'' and ''Son of...'' he was Clouseau's costumer Auguste Balls (see [[The Other Darrin]] for why he didn't always play this role).
** And he has a cameo as a waiter in ''Curse of...''
* It is sort of weird this page has gone this long without a mention of [[Professional Wrestling]], as [[Gimmick
** You remember Isaac Yankem, D.D.S.? That's Kane.
** How about Terra Rysing? You know him now as Triple H.
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** Doug Brochu played one-episode characters in ''Zoey101'' and ''[[iCarly]]''.
** Allison Scagliotti was a one-episode character in ''Zoey101'' and love interest Mindy in ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', which would make her an in-universe [[Celebrity Paradox]] as well.
* [[Kevin Smith]] reuses actors so
** There's even more Walt Flanagans, Scott Mosiers and Dave Kleins when you consider that they all played multiple roles in Clerks - four for Flanagan, three for Mosier and five for Klein.
* [[That Guy With The Glasses]]. While most of the contributors to the site have one main character and a few recurrers, That Guy (Doug Walker) has four series running, each of which stars himself as a different character, plus any number of stand-alone shorts which star him as someone completely different. Most of the characters played by Doug have interacted with at least one other.
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* [[Hawaii Five-O]] had a lot of recurring one-off characters and one-off characters whose actors returned in a recurring role. In fact, one might say that aside from the main characters, the entire cast was made up of these. Probably due to the combination of its [[Long Runner|extremely long run]] and the tiny casting pool in Hawaii. It would be interesting to document all the roles various actors have had on the show.
** Moving on to guest stars, meanwhile, pilot guests Lew Ayres (as the governor, played by Richard Denning in the series), Andrew Duggan and Leslie Nielsen all returned in guest roles in later episodes, setting a tradition maintained by, among others, Bruce Boxleitner (who played two different characters in season seven's "We Hang Our Own" (featuring the aforementioned Leslie Nielsen) and "And The Horse Jumped Over The Moon" - and was killed off in the former!).
* The [[Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen]] movie ''The Challenge'' got bizarrely meta at the end when the girl's [[Love Interest
* Happens occasionally in live theatre, with long-running shows.
** For example, several actors including Tim Martin Gleason, Brad Little, John Cudia and Ramin Karimloo first played Raoul before playing [[The Phantom of the Opera]] himself.
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