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{{quote|"Whatever your character's name is, people are going to call you that. [[I Am Not Spock|For the rest of your life]]. Make your character's name '''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|Will Smith]]'''."
|[[Will Smith]] quoting [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}hFjwbKMlmF4 valuable advice] }}
{{quote|''"The character I play is called Uncle Deadly, which is also my name. It's like it was written for me!"''
|'''Uncle Deadly''', ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]''}}
A character whose name is clearly taken from the actor/actress portraying him/her. This shows up in TV a lot in shows designed as a vehicle for an actor's fame. By lending their name to the fictional character, there's some familiarity created already. The most obvious way to spot this is to see if the title of the show incorporates the lead actor/actress' name, but not always. This seemed to hit its peak in the sitcoms of the late eighties and early nineties. A good majority of sitcoms were based on a stand up comedian's routine (Tim Allen, Roseanne Barr) and many of these comics already were developing fanbases. Creating the Danza was a way to leverage their fame as a comic into success as an actor.
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{{examples}}
== Anime
* A borderline case is [[Shinichi Watanabe|Nabeshin]] in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' and ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'', who is voiced by director Wata''nabe Shin''ichi. Furthermore, Watanabe himself appears a few times in both shows with the same character model.
** ''Nabeshin'' was Watanabe's real nickname from ''before'' Excel Saga times, and he still uses it. And he ''[[Truth in Television|indeed]]'' dresses [[Alter Ego Acting|like his animated counterpart]].
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* In ''[[K-On!]]'', Mugi shares her last name (Kotobuki) with that of her voice actress, [[Minako Kotobuki]]. Definitely a coincidence though, seeing how the manga came first. Now, if they could have gotten Hikaru Kotobuki from P-Model to ([[Cross Dressing Voice|somehow]]) play the role...<ref>For those who don't know, the members of Houkago Tea Time are all named after members of P-Model, while other notable cast members are named after members of The Pillows.</ref>
* [[Akira Kamiya]] as Akira Hibiki in ''[[Raideen|Yuusha Raideen]]''.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. Kosuke Fujishima had written a one-shot story with a character named Chieko Honda. When it came time to animate that story in ''Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy'', they cast [[Chieko Honda]] in the role.
== Films -- Animated ==
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* Possibly the oldest example in film: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s "Charlie" character, the center of many of his movies.
* [[Laurel and Hardy|Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy]] usually played full-name versions of this in their films.
* Frankie Avalon in the ''Beach'' movies.▼
* [[The Marx Brothers]] did this in some of their films, and on stage.
▲* Frankie Avalon in the ''Beach'' movies.
* Subverted in ''[[Back To The Beach]]'' where Annette Funicello (known as Dee Dee in the classic Beach films) is called Annette while Frankie (her husband) is called "The Big Kahuna".
* Long before Sandra Oh was cast in ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', she won a Best Actress Genie Award (the modern day Canadian equivalent of the Oscars) for her role in 1998's ''Last Night''... playing a character named just Sandra.
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** Similarly, Jack Kerouac wrote many novels starring a protagonist named Jack Duluoz.
* Charles Yu, time-machine repairman in ''[[How to Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe]]'' by Charles Yu. It really says something that this is one of the ''[[Mind Screw|less confusing]]'' things about the book.
* A couple of author John
* Darren O'Shaughnessy (who usually writes under the penname Darren Shan) is best known for a book series about a young vampire named [[The Saga of Darren Shan|Darren Shan]].
* [[Tanith Lee]], who wrote for British sf series ''[[Blake's 7
* J(ames) G(raham) Ballard in his novels ''Empire of the Sun'' and 'The Kindness of Women'' has the protagonist "Jim Graham".
* Another borderline case is dancer Lucinda Dickey as "Lucy Dickens" in ''[[Grease 2]]''.
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* Ray Romano as Ray Barone in ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''.
* [[Ellen DeGeneres]] played "Ellen Morgan" in the 1993-98 sitcom ''[[Ellen]]'', which was known as ''These Friends Of Mine'' for the first season. In 2001, she played "Ellen Richmond" in the sitcom ''The Ellen Show''.
* Sandy Duncan as Sandy Stockton in ''[[Funny Face]]'' (later called ''The Sandy Duncan Show''). Duncan was also Sandy Hogan in her [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] role on the show known variously as ''[[Valerie]]'', ''
* Speaking of which, Valerie Harper as Valerie Hogan in the early seasons of the same show.
* Tim Allen as Tim Taylor in ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''.
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* John Ritter as John Hartman and Billy Bob Thornton as Billy Bob Davis in ''[[Hearts Afire]]''.
* ''[[Cheers]]''
** Harry Anderson as "Harry the Hat". Anderson had used "Harry the Hat" as a stage name for years before appearing on TV, when he was a
** Selma Diamond as
** Charles Robinson shares the same last name as his character Mac Robinson.
** One could also argue Yakov Smirnoff as Yakov Korplenko.
** Woody Harrelson as Woody Boyd looks like this, but it's a coincidence: the character was named Woody before Harrelson was cast.
* [[Miley Cyrus]] as Miley Stewart in ''[[Hannah Montana]]''—this also counts as [[Alter Ego Acting]] because Miley
* Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas play alternate universe versions of themselves on ''[[Jonas]]'', which includes keeping their real names.
* Both Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell as Kenan Rockmore and Kel Kimble, respectively, in ''[[Kenan and Kel]]''.
* Jim Belushi as Jim in ''[[According to Jim]]''.
* Victoria Jackson as Victoria in the failed 1984 ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' spinoff, ''W*
* Rare last-name Danza: Mackenzie Phillips as Molly Phillips in ''[[So Weird]]''.
* Another especially convoluted example would be Redd Foxx (born John Elroy Sanford), playing Fred Sanford in ''[[Sanford and Son]]''.
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** [[Larry David]] in ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' is actually an [[As Himself]], but the show has a number of Danzas—regular characters, Cheryl, Jeff, Susie, plus some one-shot characters with just one name, which happens to be the actor's.
** The kids on ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]''.
** Sean Hughes in ''
** Norman Lovett in ''I Lovett''.
** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] in ''[[The Weird Al Show]]''.
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** Ed Begley, Jr. guest starred as Ed Begley, Jr. on ''[[Dharma & Greg]]''. He was always addressed on screen by his full name, "Ed Begley, Jr.", not Ed or Mr Begley.
** Jon Dore on ''The Jon Dore Television Show''.
** ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a few of these in the early years, including Headmaster of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, Garrett Morris. (The first six or seven years had a lot of first-name examples as well - the 'WASP Translator' sketch with Ray Sharkey centered around a couple named Charles and Ann. Guess which
* Delores Hall as Nurse Delores Mitchell in ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]''
* Yasuko Nagazami as Yasko and Alibe Parsons as Alibe in ''[[Space: 1999]]''.
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