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Often we come across actors, who fit a character from a book/comic/script to the T and play the role in a Movie or TV adaptation to perfection, as if they were born for it. You know then that no one else can play that role any better.

Here are few of mine -
Sherlock Holmes - Jeremy Brett
Hercule Poirot - David Suchet
Spock - Leonard Nimoy
Batman - Michael Keaton
Reacher - Alan Ritchson
Jackson Lamb - Gary Oldman

Now what are yours ?
 
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Ace Ventura - Jim Carrey
Snape - Alan Rickman
Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds
Ash Williams (Evil Dead) - Bruce Campbell
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Sarah Michelle Gellar
Joffrey Baratheon - Jack Gleeson (dude REALLY made us hate the character)
Wolverine - Hugh Jackman
 
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Headless Horseman (sleepy Hollow) -Christopher Walken
Super man -Christopher Reeves
Edward Scissorhands -Johnny Depp
Jack Dawson (Titanic) -Leonardo DiCaprio
Dom Cobb (Inception) -Leonardo DiCaprio
Joseph Cooper (Interstellar) -Matthew McConaughey
Protagonist (Tenet) -John David Washington
Count Orlock (Nosferatu) -Bill Skarsgård
Maximus Decimus Meridius (Gladiator) -Russel Crowe
Constance Sumner (Unfaithful) -Diane Lane
Catherine Tramell (Basic Instinct) -Sharon Stone
Abbey Tyler (The Fourth Kind) -Milla Jovovich
Ripley (Alien) -Sigourney Weaver
Elizabeth Shaw (Prometheus) -Noomi Rapace
Neo (The Matrix) -Keanu Reeves
Forrest Gump (Forest Gump) -Tom Hanks
 
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James Bond - Daniel Craig
Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane
Gandalf, Dumbledore - Ian Mckellen
Dumbledore - Michael Gambon
Ron Weasley - Rupert Grint
Captain Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp
Micheal Scott - Steve Carell
Mr. Bean - Rowan Atkinson
Starlord - Chris Pratt
Walter White - Bryan Cranston
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin - William Defoe
Harley Quinn - Margot Robbie
Jules Winnfield(Pulp Fiction), Nick Fury, Stephen Warren (Django Unchained) - Samuel L. Jackson
Sheldon Cooper - Jim Parsons
Howard Wolowitz - Simon Helberg
Tyler Durden - Brad Pitt, Edward Norman
Jai , Veeru - Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra
John Wick - Keanu Reeves
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I want to list many more but then I would be here all day.
 
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Kaching999 said:
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I agree for the movies but when you look at the books and how he is portrayed in the source material Daniel Craig imo does a better job.
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It is one perspective. For me, Craig's was a jaded Bond always on the run. Mind you, I loved him in Casino Royale, but not so much in the others. From Russia with Love including the performance by Sean is probably the closest one can get to the source. There are others though who regard Dalton or Lazenby. One thing we can be sure of though, is Moore and Brosnan were not.
 
Whatever I wanted to mention mostly has already been listed down here by others, here's my list..

Unlike how James bond series has known for different actors playing the lead role, the below listed ones are irreplaceable imo!

Will Smith: Steven Hiller (Independence Day)
Nicolas Cage: Randall "Memphis" Raines (Gone in sixty seconds)
Keanu Reeves: Thomas A. Anderson/Neo (Matrix)
Milla Jovovich: Alice (Resident Evil series)
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Terminator/T-800 (Series)
Oded Fehr: Carlos Oliveira (Resident Evil 2)
Vin Diesel: Dominic Toretto (FnF series)
Paul Walker: Brian O'Conner (FnF series)
Tyrese Gibson: Roman Pearce (FnF series)
Michelle Rodriguez: Letty Ortiz (FnF series)
Jason Statham: Frank Martin (Transporter series)
John Michael Turturro: Simmons (Transformers series)
 
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