10 Actors Who Played The Same Character A Ridiculous Number Of Times
8. Thirteen Of Cast Of Harry Potter 8 Times
The Films: Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone (2001), HPAT The Chamber Of Secrets (2002), HPAT The Prisoner Of Azkaban (2004), HPAT The Goblet Of Fire (2005), HPAT The Order Of The Phoenix (2007), HPAT The Half-Blood Prince (2009), HPAT The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), HPAT The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Nowadays few series manage to make it to eight films, yet alone keep the core set of actors consistent (the smart, unavoidable recasting of Richard Harris with Michael Gambon aside). But thanks to a marketing decision to split the final book of the series and the enduring balance of British tweeness and epic scale Harry Potter made that milestone, with ten actors successfully making it through every film. Aside from the lead trio, the cast that stuck it through are Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Alan Rickman (Snape), Devon Murray (Seamus), Joshua Herdman (Goyle), Matthew Lewis (Neville), Tom Felton (Malfoy), James Phelps (Fred), Oliver Phelps (George), Bonnie Wright (Ginny) and, most surprisingly, Geraldine Somerville (Lily Potter). If that seems a woefully small number given the size of the cast, remember some entries (particularly the fourth) took a scaled down approach, jettisoning anything that didnt apply to the main plot at hand (notably the Dursleys, Professor McGonagall and Molly Weasley miss out).
