10 Amazing Roles That Saved Typecast Actors

8. Jennifer Aniston - The Good Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXynl7z4hU Since she made her name playing Rachel on Friends, Jennifer Aniston has spent the vast majority of her career playing pretty much the same type of character, in an array of films both good and bad. 2002's The Good Girl, then, is a brilliant showcase for Aniston's range, as she plays Justine, a 30-year-old married woman who is fed up with her boring life in Texas, and has all this change when she meets daring drifter Tom (Jake Gyllenhaal). Here, Aniston's character cheats on her husband, goes skinny-dipping, and ends up lying to her husband about the nature of her pregnancy (it's not his sperm). It's a far cry from her more wholesome image in Friends, and she earned a wealth of acclaim as a result, though didn't go back to the dark side in a big way until 2011's Horrible Bosses, where she ended up playing a psychopathic nymphomaniac with gleeful aplomb.