Dual performances always catch the eye, and they have often been used to showcase multiple sides to an actor’s talents. Jim Carrey has been getting a lot of attention for playing two characters in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and some of the most exciting movies of 2025 also feature actors working overtime. Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B. Jordan all have dual roles lined up for 2025.
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Actors mostly play multiple characters in comedy movies, just like Carrey in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Other common reasons for having a dual performance in a movie include stories with twins, or sci-fi movies with clones or humanoid robots. A dual performance is always an interesting novelty that a studio can use to promote a movie, but the best actors can turn these types of roles into more than just a gimmick.
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
Jim Carrey Plays Dr. Robotnik And Professor Gerald Robotnik
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Release Date
December 20, 2024
Director
Jeff Fowler
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Ben Schwartz
, Colleen O’Shaughnessey
, Idris Elba
, Keanu Reeves
, Tika Sumpter
, Lee Majdoub
, James Marsden
, Jim Carrey
Not too long ago, Jim Carrey seemed to be retiring from acting, but he seems to make an exception for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. This has culminated in him playing two characters in the recently-released threequel. According to some reports, this challenge was a big reason why Carrey agreed to return for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and critics have praised his dual role.
Carrey reprises the role of Dr. Ivo Robotnik from the first two movies, but he also plays Gerald Robotnik, Ivo’s estranged 110-year-old grandfather. His dual role is unique in the cast of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. This isn’t the first time Carrey has played multiple characters in the same movie, but the animation of A Christmas Carol made it much simpler for him to portray Scrooge and the three ghosts.
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Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Peter Sellers Plays Dr. Strangelove, Merkin Muffley And Lionel Mandrake
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
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January 29, 1964
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Stanley Kubrick
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George C. Scott
, Slim Pickens
, Peter Sellers
, Keenan Wynn
, Sterling Hayden
Several of Peter Sellers’ best movies feature the actor playing multiple roles, but Dr. Strangelove stands out above the rest. Sellers produces a strong contender for the funniest movie performance of all time, playing three different characters from three different countries in Stanley Kubrick’s biting Cold War satire. He is the titular German scientist, Dr. Strangelove, as well as the American president Merkin Muffley and British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.
Sellers has the wit and the range to turn Dr. Strangelove into a comedy of manners and a tragicomic farce, as well as a political satire.
Sellers’ three characters in Dr. Strangelove all help bring about the end of human civilization in some way, even though none of them mean to. The reasons they are unable to stop the encroaching nuclear apocalypse are all tied to personal failures that are representative of the way their countries are often seen on the global stage. Sellers has the wit and the range to turn Dr. Strangelove into a comedy of manners and a tragicomic farce, as well as a political satire.
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Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1999)
Mike Myers Plays Austin Powers And Dr. Evil
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May 2, 1997
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Jay Roach
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Mike Myers
, Elizabeth Hurley
, Michael York
, Mimi Rogers
, Robert Wagner
, Seth Green
, Fabiana Udenio
, Mindy Sterling
Four years before starring in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Mike Myers played two characters in So I Married an Axe Murderer, and he clearly got a taste for the idea. In the first Austin Powers movie, Myers plays the titular spy and his arch-nemesis Dr. Evil. The franchise later makes fun of their similarities by revealing that they are long-lost brothers. Dr. Evil is a hilarious villain, and it’s hard to imagine him being quite as funny with any other character.
Myers added more characters to his repertoire with each sequel.
Myers’ dual role in the first Austin Powers movie turned out to be just the beginning, as he added more characters to his repertoire with each sequel. In The Spy Who Shagged Me, he also plays the obese Scottish assassin Fat Bastard, and he plays the titular Dutch villain in Goldmember. This is nothing compared to the eight characters he plays in the short-lived Netflix series The Pentaverate.
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Asteroid City (2023)
Various Actors Play Multiple Characters
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June 23, 2023
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Wes Anderson
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Tom Hanks
, Margot Robbie
, Scarlett Johansson
, Adrien Brody
, Jeffrey Wright
, Bryan Cranston
, Bill Murray
, Jeff Goldblum
, Edward Norton
, Liev Schreiber
, Hope Davis
, Jason Schwartzman
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, Willem Dafoe
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Asteroid City hasn’t gotten the same critical responses as some of Wes Anderson’s best movies, but it’s the kind of complex, layered story that could age beautifully. The Grand Budapest Hotel – possibly Anderson’s best work – uses several layers of a frame narrative. Asteroid City takes this idea one step further by showing a televised play and its production simultaneously, with various actors playing the characters within the play and the actors who portray them.
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Jason Schwartzman is one of the most important actors taking on a dual role in Asteroid City. As the main character of the play, he’s also a vital character in the behind-the-scenes story of the production. Jones Hall has a crisis of confidence when he doesn’t know how to portray Augie Steenbeck, and this affects the story both within the play and behind the curtain. The multiple layers of artifice in Asteroid City seem to be Anderson’s way of commenting on the highly stylized structure of his own movies.
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Okja (2017)
Tilda Swinton Plays Lucy Mirando And Nancy Mirando
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June 28, 2017
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Bong Joon Ho
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Hee-Bong Byun
, Steven Yeun
, Jake Gyllenhaal
, Seo-Hyun Ahn
, Tilda Swinton
, Je-mun Yun
, Shirley Henderson
, Lily Collins
, Giancarlo Esposito
, Paul Dano
Okja got a lot more attention after Bong Joon-ho’s following movie, Parasite, won Best Picture, but it remains underappreciated. The environmental sci-fi fantasy follows a young girl who tries to rescue her genetically modified “super pig” pet from the slaughterhouse. Tilda Swinton worked with Bong before on Snowpiercer, and she plays two sisters in Okja, both involved in their family’s Mirando Corporation.
Swinton plays twin gossip columnists in Hail, Caesar, a mother and daughter in The Eternal Daughter, and three characters in Suspiria.
Swinton has always been a chameleon of an actor, and Okja shows her playing two very different characters, even though their goals are often aligned. This is far from the only time that Swinton has taken on a dual role, since she plays twin gossip columnists in Hail, Caesar, a mother and daughter in The Eternal Daughter, and three characters in Suspiria. As for Bong, his next movie, Mickey 17, features Robert Pattinson playing multiple characters.
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Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975)
Various Actors Play Multiple Characters
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May 25, 1975
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Terry Jones
, Terry Gilliam
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Michael Palin
, John Cleese
, Terry Jones
, Graham Chapman
, Terry Gilliam
, Eric Idle
Every Monty Python movie features the members of the British sketch comedy troupe playing multiple characters, but The Holy Grail kicks things up a notch. At times, the movie feels like a loosely-connected series of sketches, allowing Cleese, Chapman, Idle, Palin, Jones and Gilliam to play as many heightened characters as they can come up with. There are a few other actors who pitch in by playing multiple characters too, like frequent Monty Python collaborator Carol Cleveland.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail could have been a large ensemble comedy, but it’s even funnier having the same six actors playing almost every character.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail could have been a large ensemble comedy, but it’s even funnier having the same six actors playing almost every character. This gives the movie a hilarious low-budget feel that works brilliantly for Monty Python’s irreverent style of comedy. It also helps that the actors are the ones writing the characters. Nobody could play the Black Knight, Sir Lancelot, Tim the Enchanter and other characters as well as John Cleese, because he’s the one who invented them.
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
Pat Roach Plays A Sherpa And A Nazi Mechanic
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June 12, 1981
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Steven Spielberg
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Harrison Ford
, Karen Allen
, Alfred Molina
, Paul Freeman
, Ronald Lacey
, John Rhys-Davies
, Denholm Elliott
Indiana Jones fans might not know Pat Roach by name, but they would certainly recognize him. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he plays the muscular Nazi mechanic who gets into a fight with Indy near a slowly rotating plane, shortly before he is torn to shred by one of the propellers. He also has a smaller role earlier in the movie as one of the Sherpas Indy fights in Nepal. His face is obscured in this fight, so it isn’t so obvious that he’s the same actor playing both roles.
Roach also returned to the Indiana Jones franchise for its first two sequels.
Roach also returned to the Indiana Jones franchise for its first two sequels, playing the Chief Thuggee Guard in Temple of Doom and a Gestapo member in The Last Crusade. Roach passed away before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Before he started working as an actor, Roach was a famous wrestler in Britain. Spielberg cast him in multiple roles in the Indiana Jones series because he appreciated his distinctive physicality. This is just like how Doug Jones plays two characters in Pan’s Labyrinth, or how Warwick Davis plays both Griphook and Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter franchise.
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Us (2019)
Various Actors Play Multiple Characters
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Us
Release Date
March 22, 2019
Director
Jordan Peele
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Lupita Nyong’o
, Winston Duke
, Elisabeth Moss
, Tim Heidecker
Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature doesn’t usually get as much love as either Get Out or Nope, but its unique concept leaves a lasting impression. Us focuses on the Tethered, a population of duplicates who live below ground, somehow linked to their counterparts living on the surface, blissfully unaware of the situation. Us never directly addresses who the Tethered are or where they came from, and their mysterious origins mean that people have interpreted the meaning of the metaphor in several ways.
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Each of the main characters in Us has a Tethered counterpart, so each of the actors plays two roles. The most interesting performance comes from Lupita Nyong’o, because her character’s Tethered counterpart is unique. Adelaide and Red switched places when they were children, and this detail throws off many theories about Peele’s movie. The ending of Us leaves audiences with one last puzzle.
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The Double (2013)
Jesse Eisenberg Plays Simon James And James Simon
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April 3, 2014
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Richard Ayoade
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Jesse Eisenberg
, Mia Wasikowska
, Wallace Shawn
, Yasmin Paige
, Noah Taylor
, James Fox
, Cathy Moriarty
, Phyllis Somerville
, Gabrielle Downey
, Jon Korkes
, Craig Roberts
, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
, Susan Blommaert
, Bruce Byron
, J. Mascis
, Tony Rohr
, Karima Riachy
, Tim Key
, Andrew Gruen
, Kim Noble
, Morrison Thomas
, Sally Hawkins
, Lloyd Woolf
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The Double remains something of a hidden gem, but Richard Ayoade’s strange, beguiling black comedy deserves more love. Jesse Eisenberg delivers a brilliant dual performance as a downtrodden office worker and the mysterious doppelgänger who shows up and starts to take over his life. The Double is based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but Ayoade modernizes and reimagines it for the big screen.
Eisenberg manages to work in some of the movie’s comedy to alleviate the overbearingly bleak tension that hangs over the story. The Double shares a lot in common with Enemy, Denis Villeneuve’s thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as two identical men whose lives start to blur together. Both movies premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 before hitting theaters in 2014.
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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
John Rhys-Davies Plays Gimli And Treebeard
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
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January 15, 2002
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Peter Jackson
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Elijah Wood
, Ian McKellen
, Viggo Mortensen
, Orlando Bloom
, Bruce Allpress
, Sean Astin
, John Bach
, Sala Baker
, Cate Blanchett
, Andy Serkis
Most instances of characters playing two roles in a movie are done for comedic effect, or else they are used in horror movies and suspense thrillers to facilitate some twist about twins, doppelgängers or clones. This is what makes John Rhys-Davies’ dual role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy something of an anomaly. He plays Gimli in all three movies, and he voices Treebeard in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
Rhys-Davies does enough to disguise his voice as Treebeard that not everybody can tell that he’s the same actor as the one who portrays Gimli.
Rhys-Davies does enough to disguise his voice as Treebeard that not everybody can tell that he’s the same actor as the one who portrays Gimli. Peter Jackson seemingly asked Rhys-Davies to consider voicing Treebeard because he admired the sound of his voice and thought that it would fit the part. The movies don’t try to draw any attention to the fact that Rhys-Davies is playing a dual role. This would probably break the suspension of disbelief, but Jackson and Rhys-Davies get away with it.
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