10 Actors Who Played The Hero And Villain In The Same Film

10. Mike Myers - Austin Powers

Let's kick this list off with perhaps the all-timer example of an actor playing both hero and villain in the same movie: Mike Myers in the Austin Powers franchise.

In addition to donning a wig, specs, and bad teeth to play the "shagadelic" titular hero in the original film, Myers also underwent an impressive physical transformation to portray the bald-headed, Blofeld-esque Dr. Evil.

Believe it or not, Myers didn't initially intend to play both characters, but after Jim Carrey was forced to turn down the Dr. Evil role due to scheduling conflicts, he decided to step in.

And after Myers' dual performance was so enthusiastically received, he ventured to one-up it in both of the sequels.

In the second movie, he played Austin, Dr. Evil, and hefty Scottish assassin Fat Bastard - requiring use of a fat suit and prosthetics - and in the third film played all the aforementioned characters plus the new Goldfinger-parodying villain Goldmember.

Myers evidently has a penchant for extreme transformations, as in his recent Netflix series The Pentaverate he played eight separate characters - some heroes, some villains.