Dual role, the Glossary
A dual role (also known as a double role) refers to one actor playing two roles in a single production.[1]
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Absurdism
Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless.
Academy Award for Best Actor
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Adaptation (film)
Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman.
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Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar (born 1 May 1971) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Tamil cinema.
Albus Dumbledore
Prof.
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Alexander Hamilton (song)
"Alexander Hamilton" is the opening number for the 2015 musical Hamilton, a musical biography of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015.
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Angoor (1982 film)
Angoor is a 1982 Indian Hindi-language comedy film.
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Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role.
Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Denise Crosby
Denise Michelle Crosby (born November 24, 1957) is an American actress and model known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons.
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Deven Verma
Deven Verma (23 October 1937 – 2 December 2014) was an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with Bollywood directors like Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar.
Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Jane Umbridge is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series created by J.K. Rowling.
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Dr. Strangelove
Dr.
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Enthiran
Enthiran is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film co-written and directed by S. Shankar.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
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Govind Nihalani
Govind Nihalani (born 19 December 1940) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema, particularly the movement of parallel cinema.
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Hamilton (musical)
Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany.
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Hema Malini
Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014.
Hercules Mulligan
Hercules Mulligan (September 25, 1740March 4, 1825) was an Irish-American tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War.
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Hermione Granger
Hermione Jean Granger is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
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Hogwarts staff
The following is a list of Hogwarts staff in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.
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James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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John Laurens
John Laurens (October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, best known for his criticism of slavery and his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers.
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Kamal Haasan
Parthasarathy Srinivasan (born 7 November 1954), known professionally as Kamal Haasan, is an Indian actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, choreographer, playback singer, lyricist, television presenter, social activist and politician who works in Tamil cinema.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor.
List of Harry Potter characters
This is a list of characters in the Harry Potter series.
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List of most expensive Indian films
This is an inclusive list of the most expensive Indian films, with budgets given in Indian rupees and US dollars.
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Lord Voldemort
Lord Voldemort (in the films) is a character and the main antagonist in J. K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels.
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Macbeth
Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Macbeth (character)
Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).
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Minerva McGonagall
Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Ministry of Magic
The Ministry of Magic is the government of the Magical community of Britain in J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World, headed by an official entitled the Minister for Magic.
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known by his stage name Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer.
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Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.
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Philip Hamilton
Philip Hamilton (January 22, 1782 – November 24, 1801) was the eldest child of Alexander Hamilton (the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.
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Plot device
A plot device or plot mechanism is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.
Rajinikanth
Shivaji Rao Gaikwad (born 12 December 1950), known professionally as Rajinikanth, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Tamil cinema.
Ram Aur Shyam
Ram Aur Shyam (English: Ram And Shyam) is a 1967 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Tapi Chanakya.
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Sanjeev Kumar
Sanjeev Kumar (born Harihar Jethalal Jariwala; 9 July 1938 – 6 November 1985) was an Indian actor.
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Seeta Aur Geeta
Seeta Aur Geeta (Seeta And Geeta) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) and directed by Ramesh Sippy.
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Severus Snape
Severus Snape is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Soap opera
A soap opera, daytime drama, or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Tasha Yar
Natasha "Tasha" Yar is a fictional character that mainly appeared in the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
Third Murderer
The Third Murderer is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606).
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.
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Twin
Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.
West End theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_role
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