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Originally Posted by ElfBane There have been many popular actor types that play "themselves". John Wayne and Clint Eastwood come immediately to mind.

I think this is true for almost ANY leading actor or actress. When you hear names like Jack Nicholson, Robert Dinero, Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, Bruce Willis, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and others...a certain type of "character" automatically springs to mind. Even when they cross genres (like Jim Carrey), we still tend to think of the type of characters they have played the most and really have a hard time picturing them in a different role.

Nicholson and Dinero, for example, are very versatile actors, but we still have a mental image of a character when we hear their names.