8 Great Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were Being Weirdly Typecast

1. Kevin Spacey Is...Everything Modern America Fears

Nobody plays a world class piece of s*** piped into an expensive suit quite like Kevin Spacey. More to the point, he's had a habit over the last decade-or-so of playing suited-and-booted villains who tap directly into present concerns of modern Americans. We might be here a while...

Examples: Spacey has played real estate scammer Lex Luthor (Superman Returns), a North Pole bureaucrat trying to ruin the sanctity of Christmas (Fred Claus), a corrupt lobbyist (Casino Jack), the a**hole President of a financial firm (Horrible Bosses), the murderous President of the United States (House of Cards), the megalomaniacal CEO of a private military contractor (Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare), Richard Nixon (Elvis & Nixon) and a Donald Trump-esque business tycoon (Nine Lives).

What's extra amusing about Spacey's typecasting is that he's not merely been content to play the harbinger of doom over and over again in movies, but also on TV shows and video games.

You'd think the guy might want to branch out and experiment with a few heroic roles, but for the most part he's boxed himself into playing terrible people who spell out America's troubling social issues (and admittedly does a fantastic job of it).

While to Spacey his career may not seem quite so singular, as he tends to play distinctly different roles in much smaller movies, to mainstream audiences who never see these films, he clings pretty closely to this one major archetype.

Which actors do you find to be the most egregiously typecast? Shout them out in the comments!