Fictional stories sometimes feature a fictional movies (see List of fictional movies) or play. In these cases, occasionally, a fictional actor appears. In movies (see Film in film), it is not infrequent that a real, famous actor plays the role of a fictional person who is also an actor.
----Fictional actors in movies and TV
The following list features fictional actors including, in (parenthesis), the real actor who played the fictional actor in a movie. At the end of the entry appears the name of the movie or the TV series where the fictional actor appeared.
- Pugsley Addams (Jimmy Workman), child who acted as turkey in a Thanksgiving Day play at the summer camp - The Addams Family Addams Family Values
- Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci), child who acted as Pocahontas in a Thanksgiving Day play at the summer camp - The Addams Family Addams Family Values
- Alicia (Cecilia Roth), actress and friend of Hache - Martín (Hache)
- Ned Alleyn (Ben Affleck), theater actor in the times of William Shakespeare - Shakespeare in Love
- Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline), theatre and TV actor, acted alongside with Celeste Talbert in a soap opera (acting as Dr. Rod Randall), former lover of Talbert - Soapdish
- Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Anna (Sally Kirkland), middle-aged Czech star looking for work in New York - Anna (movie)
- Don Arturo (Fernando Fernán Gómez), theatre actor in the Spanish 40's and 50's - El Viaje a Ninguna Parte
- Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch), toon actor - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler), movie star - King Kong (2005 film)
- Isabel Bigelow (Nicole Kidman), witch who debuted as an actress with the 2005 remake of Bewitched - Bewitched (film)
- Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli et al.), cabaret actress in Kit Kat Club, Berlin, during the 1930s - Cabaret
- Blair Brennan (Paul Johansson), actor in the same soap opera as Celeste Talbert (character: Bolt) - Soapdish
- Dion (Coolio) & Leon Brothers (Chuck D.), directors and probably actors of blaxploitation - An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
- Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who acted as himself or something like that in The Truman Show - The Truman Show
- Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Carol (Christine Baranski), aging star on Bobby Bowfinger's productions - Bowfinger
- Margo Channing (Bette Davis), veteran Broadway star - All About Eve
- Johnny "Drama" Chase (Kevin Dillon), Vincent Chase's half-brother, C-list actor, acted in hit TV series Viking Quest, had guest appearances in Melrose Place and Nash Bridges. Also Vincent's cook and fitness consultant - Entourage (TV series)
- Vincent "Vince" Chase (Adrian Grenier), up-and-coming Hollywood movie actor from Queens. Potentially the best young actor of his generation, had breakout with Head On, co-starring Jessica Alba; turned out big budget studio film Matterhorn to work on indie Queens Boulevard, well received in Sundance. Offered lead in potential blockbuster, James Cameron's Aquaman - Entourage (TV series)
- Cherish (Alicia Witt), redhead porn actress who "parodies" Honey Whitlock's movies - Cecil B. DeMented
- Christian (Ewan McGregor), bohemian poet and forced actor in his own play in 1899 in the Moulin Rouge - Moulin Rouge!
- George M. Cohan (James Cagney) - Vaudeville actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
- Jerry Cohan (Walter Huston) - Vaudeville actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
- Willie Coon (???), TV actor acting in racist series That's My Boy - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
- Lori Craven (Elisabeth Shue), actress in the same soap opera as Celeste Talbert (character: Angelique) - Soapdish
- Richard Crosby (Gary Oldman), two-times nominee for Academy Award, acted in a war movie with Joey Tribbiani - Friends
- Eli Cross (Peter O'Toole), Stunt actor - The Stunt Man
- Nina Cruz (Candela Peña), theatre actress along with Huma Rojo in A Streetcar Named Desire - All About My Mother
- Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Dante (Eusebio Poncela), homosexual actor and uncle of Hache - Martín (Hache)
- Ann Darrow (Fay Wray, remake Naomi Watts) - King Kong
- Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), theater actress in the times of William Shakespeare - Shakespeare in Love
- Herb Denning (Dick Miller), secondary actor on Lawrence Woolsey's movies - Matinee
- Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson, future remake Glenn Close), star of silent movies - Sunset Boulevard
- Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), failed male actor and successful TV actress as Dorothy Michaels - Tootsie
- Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), Oscar-Winner for his homo-sexual soldier - In & Out
- Damian Drake (Timothy Dalton), super-spy who also stars in movies acting as a super-spy -Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Phil Duncan (Richard Vanstone), inspired in Humphrey Bogart, star of John Wilson's The African Trader - White Hunter Black Heart
- Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), young and aspiring actress from Deep River, Ontario - Mulholland Dr.
- Karen Flores (Rene Russo) B-movie actress under Harry Zimm, later worked with Chili Palmer - Get Shorty
- Dr. Tobias Fünke (David Cross), from FOX's Arrested Development, was the chief resident of psychiatry at Mass General, before he lost his medical license after administering CPR to a person who didn’t need it. Tobias is now pursuing his acting career and is most known for his roles as Frightened Inmate #2 and his portrayal of his father-in-law George Bluth Sr. on an episode of the television show Scandalmakers.
- Carlos Galván (José Sacristán), theatre actor in the Spanish 40's and 50's; son of Don Arturo - El Viaje a Ninguna Parte
- Kay Gibson (Marisa Berenson), inspired in Katharine Hepburn, star of John Wilson's The African Trader - White Hunter Black Heart
- Hannah Gill (Laura Linney), who acted as Meryl Burbank in The Truman Show - The Truman Show
- Joel Glicker (David Krumholtz), child who acted as Indian chief in a Thanksgiving Day play at the summer camp - The Addams Family
- Joseph Gribble (Cliff Dunstan), waiter and theatre actor in Leo Davis' Hail and Farewall - Marx Brothers' Room Service
- Sharon Groan (muppet, unknown performer), parody of Sharon Stone, starred in Basically It Stinks - The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
- Harry Hankle (Mark Hadlow), old failed vaudeville actor who played in Chicago - King Kong (2005 film)
- Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), up-and-coming Broadway star and fan of Margo Channing - All About Eve
- Gwen Harrison (Catherine Zeta-Jones), usually paired with Eddie Thomas - America's Sweethearts
- John Henry (Joseph Runningfox), Native American student who acted as Romeo in Shakespeare's play at school, even after racist threats - Porky's
- Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams), professional actor who played Mrs. Doubtfire in real life and then on TV - Mrs. Doubtfire
- Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) - child vaudeville actress in the 1910s; failure of movie actress in the 1930s - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford) - sister of Baby Jane Hudson, movie star in the 1930s until a car accident left her in wheelchair and retired - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- B. Jackson, who starred Tit for Tat - Noir
- Vance Michael Justin (no actor, only image on poster), idol of teenagers, starring in fantasy movie where fans go cosplay to the premiere, Cornelia Hare is infatuated with him - W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)
- Mrs. Kendal (Anne Bancroft), actress and society friend of John Merrick - The Elephant Man
- Julia Lambert (Annette Benning), successful actress with bad taste in men - Being Julia
- Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), star of silent movies - Singin' in the Rain
- Lauren (Natascha McElhone), who acted as Sylvia in The Truman Show - The Truman Show
- Sandy Lester (Teri Garr), actress, lover of Michael Dorsey, lost a role to Dorothy Michaels - Tootsie
- Vicki Lester (Janet Gaynor in A Star Is Born (1937), and remake with Judy Garland) in A Star Is Born (1954), real name Esther Victoria Blodgett, protegée of aging star Norman Maine.
- Tracy Lime (Kirsten Dunst) teenage actress who acted as Albonian girl during fake war propaganda - Wag the Dog
- Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly), the greatest actor ever - Singin' in the Rain
- Lyle (Adrian Grenier), star of Cecil B. DeMented's movie(s?) - Cecil B. DeMented
- Maureen MacKenzie (unseen character), movie star - King Kong (2005 film)
- Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), famous actress and mother of a possessed child - The Exorcist
- Norman Maine (Fredric March in A Star Is Born (1937) and James Mason) in the remake A Star Is Born.
- Ariel Maloney (Teri Hatcher), actress in the same soap opera as Celeste Talbert (character: Dr. Monica Demonico - notice that the surname comes from demon) - Soapdish)
- Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine), veteran star - Postcards from the Edge
- Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Dorothy Michaels (Dustin Hoffman), TV star actress and secretly an actor - Tootsie
- Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty), transsexual actor (real name Milton Moorehead) who acted as Nurse Nan in a soap opera alongside with rival Celeste Talbert - Soapdish
- Edward "Pee Wee" Morris (Dan Monahan), student who acted as a fairy in Shakespeare's play at school - Porky's
- Julie Nichols (Jessica Lange), movie actress who auditioned for a role and lost to Dorothy Michaels - Tootsie
- Anthony O'malley (Michael Caine) a veteran (and possibly gay, according to Thomas Quirk) actor from the movie The Actors(2003).
- Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Carlos Piñeiro (Gabino Diego), theatre actor in the Spanish 40's and 50's; long lost son of Carlos Galván - El Viaje a Ninguna Parte
- Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even against his father's wishes, only to commit suicide afterwards - Dead Poets Society
- Gerard Pitts (James Waterston), student and member of the Dead Poets Society, who acted in a play even after threats - Dead Poets Society
- Tony Powell (Victor Mature), star framed by Aldo Vanucci (aka Federico Fabrizi) - After the Fox
- Thomas Quirk (Dylan Moran)a troubled, struggling actor from the movie The Actors(2003).
- Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner), toon actress - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), toon actor - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy), black superstar - Bowfinger
- Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn), young debutante - Stage Door
- Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), theatre actress who played Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire - All About My Mother
- Gina Romantica (Britt Ekland), alias of criminal Gina Vanucci - After the Fox
- Satine (Nicole Kidman), actress in 1899 in the Moulin Rouge - Moulin Rouge!
- Rose Schwartz (Whoopi Goldberg), writer of the soap opera starring Celeste Talbert, doing a cameo in one chapter - Soapdish
- Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), star of Helix, Oscar-winner for Double Helix - Notting Hill (movie)
- Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), voice actress - Singin' in the Rain
- Diane Selwyn (Naomi Watts), young, failed and unhappy actress - Mulholland Dr.
- Curro Serrano (Jorge García), teenage actor who played the huntsman in his school play Little Red Riding Hood - Los Serrano
- Santiago Serrano (Jesús Bonilla), amateur actor who played the wolf in his nephew's school play Little Red Riding Hood - Los Serrano
- Severine (Valentina Cortese), actress - La Nuit américaine
- Gil Shepherd (Jeff Daniels), who played Tom Baxter, who in turn jumped off the screen - The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton), 3rd best paid actor in 1938, Nazi spy, loosely based in Errol Flynn - The Rocketeer
- Iris Smythson (Shirley MacLaine), (probably theatre) actress who did Endora in the 2005 remake of Bewitched, probably also a witch herself - Bewitched (movie)
- Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda), alcoholic actress - The Morning After
- Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), TV actress, vain and aging, acted as Maggie in a soap opera, former lover of Jeffrey Anderson - Soapdish
- Eddie Thomas (John Cusack), usually paired with Gwen Harrison - America's Sweethearts
- Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) - Friends
- Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep), movie actress and daughter of Doris Mann - Postcards from the Edge
- Víctor Ventura (Javier Bardem), unemployed actor working for a phone-sex business - Boca a boca
- John Van Horn (George Gaynes), veteran TV actor, acted in the same TV series as Dorothy Michaels, tried to seduce her - Tootsie
- Wendy Ward (Illeana Douglas) ex-child star turned prostitute. Acted in The Elephant Princess, but then became addict to coke - Action (TV series)
- Carl Weathers (Carl Weathers) - Arrested Development
- Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) Academy Award-winning superstar, acted as main character in superproduction Napoleon and also as a homosexual tetraplejic who climbed the Everest; also the "Shorty" in Get Shorty - Get Shorty
- Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), future aging star - Cecil B. DeMented
- Wendy Williams (Kaki Hunter), student who acted as Juliet in Shakespeare's play at school - Porky's
- Terence Willis, who starred So many men, so many minds with Nataria Wong - Noir
- Nataria Wong, who co-starred So many men, so many minds with Terence Willis (Notice that first name is Nataria and not Natalia - it was written that way in Roman characters) - [
- Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell), star of movies like An Onion for Willie (boxer movie) or Atticus Rex (a movie about the Roman Empire with a character in sunglasses, so weird), failed with Last Year in Katmandu (a black-and-white movie with strange costume design), and then went to TV acting as Darrin in the 2005 remake of Bewitched - Bewitched (movie)
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