Characters in movies and TV series are often defined by the actors who play them. And while characters can have a myriad of people play them, there is always that one actor who manages to fill a character's shoes the best, and people can’t imagine anyone else playing the role.
Reddit has been discussing just that. One user asked the lovely AskReddit community which actor crushed a role so hard that nobody else will be able to live up to it? and got a slew of amazing responses.
Bored Panda has collected the best answers and turned it into a curated list that you can find below. While you’re scrolling, comment and vote on the submissions you loved the most, and tell us what character-actor combinations you think are iconic in the comment section below!
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#1
When they inevitably recast Jack Sparrow [Johnny Depp], it'll be clear just how big a gap there is.
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#2
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape.
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#3
Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean.
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#4
RDJ for Iron Man, the man WAS Tony Stark end of discussion.
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#5
Ryan Reynolds did an excellent job being Deadpool to the point where i am reading a Deadpool comic book with Reynolds' voice in my head narrating it.
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#6
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.He’s so deeply connected to that character that I feel it would be impossible for anyone else to fill the fedora.
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#7
Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall.
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#8
Ian McKellen is the both true Gandalfs.
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#9
Robin Williams as the genie.
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#10
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, amazing acting.
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#11
Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean Luc Picard.
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#12
Hugh Laurie - Dr. House.
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#13
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.
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#14
Christopher Lloyd as Doc in Back to the Future.
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#15
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
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#16
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator.
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#17
Tim Curry, Frank N Furter. Anyone else in the role knows they never live up to that sexy god of a man. ‘I can make you a man’ is the most brilliant filthy scene to appear on cinema screens while people aren’t nude :/
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#18
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn. Best book to movie translation for a character I’ve ever seen.
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#19
Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice.
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#20
Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams.
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#21
Andre the Giant in The Princess Bride.
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#22
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge.Umbridge sucked in the books, but in the movies she turned Umbridge into a character that you just don't like into one that you hate with a burning passion.
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#23
Jack Nicholson in the Shining.
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#24
Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad. He begins as sympathetic and ends up terrifying.And in general the whole cast of Malcolm in the Middle, even the very secondary role. There have been many middle class effed up famy sitcom but zero have achieved to be crazy and relatable like this show.
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#25
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.
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#26
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley.
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#27
Jody Foster as Clarice Starling. I particularly love the scene where she looks at Buffalo Bill’s victim and you hear her voice crack during the first part of the description, where she is looking at tiny personal details like painted fingernails, but then go clinical and determined when she sees the wounds on the girl’s back. Playing badass women often veers either towards emotionless and stalwart, or basically aping a 80s action male role. Foster nailed the emotional vulnerability, ambition, and courage of that character in minute, but profound ways. No one compares.
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#28
Heath Ledger as the Joker.
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#29
Jim Carrey in The Mask.
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#30
Christopher Lee as basically anything.
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#31
Patrick Stewart as Professor X, and everyone knew it would happen a decade before the first X-Men movie.
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#32
I really can't see anyone else as Hellboy. Ron Pearlman was amazing.
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#33
Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin.
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#34
Joaquin Phoenix as commodus in gladiator. I have never hated a character so much till I saw him in that movie. He is so cowardly, despicable, and creepy. Phoenix did such a good job in making you loathe his character.
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#35
Danny Trejo as Machete.
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#36
Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.
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#37
Kelsey Grammer, Frasier Crane.
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#38
John C. McGinley as Dr Cox.
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#39
Steve Carrell as Michael Scott.
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#40
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.
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#41
Rainn Wilson as Dwight Scrute.
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#42
[Nick Offerman as] Ron Swanson.
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#43
Ronald Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.
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#44
J.K Simmons as John Jonah Jameson.
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#45
Val Kilmer in Tombstone.Amazing Doc Holliday!
Every once in a while there's a role that it seems like the actor was born to play. There's really not another role that compares in his career.
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#46
Christian Bale in American Psycho.
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#47
Catherin O'Hara as Moira Rose!!
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#48
Jessica Walter in Arrested Development (and Archer) .. her mean mom character dynamic is gold
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#49
Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine.
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#50
Danny Devito's Frank Reynolds is the best piece of casting this century.
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