10 Actors Who Secretly Played Three Characters In The Same Film

10. Michael J. Fox - Back To The Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II has a lot of fun allowing Michael J. Fox and Thomas F. Wilson to play various iterations of Marty and Biff.

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As such it's no secret that Fox ends up playing both young and old versions of Marty, and also Marty's son Marty Jr., though he additionally plays a third character you may not have noticed.

Fox is also concealed under copious amounts of makeup to play Marlene McFly, Marty's daughter, who appears briefly in the film.

It's an incredible enough job that you'd be forgiven for just assuming an actress resembling Fox was hired for the part, especially if you grew up watching the film.

As exceptional as the makeup is, though, it's Fox's soft facial features that really help sell the transformation into a frankly genuinely pretty teenage girl.

Because playing three characters in the same movie isn't enough, though, director Robert Zemeckis even has Fox play Marty, Marty Jr., and Marlene in the same scene at one point.

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