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* [[Robert Downey, Jr.]] started out doing comedies (and he was a member of the [[Saturday Night Live|Not Ready for Prime Time Players]]), then went into dramatic work before falling victim to a drug problem. He relaunched his career with a comedy buddy movie (''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]''), and now seems to switch between being a comedy star and being an [[Action Hero]].
** Hell, [[Deadpan Snarker|he's at his funniest]] in [[Iron Man (film)|his serious roles]].
* Mark Hamill got his start playing heroic Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in the original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy. While he still revisits that role from time to time (in films like ''[[The Last Jedi]]'' and the upcoming ''[[The Rise of Skywalker]]''), these days he tends to be VA for [[The Joker]] in, well, ''any'' [[Batman]] adaptation where the Joker needs a VA. Clearly, the two characters are as different as night and day.
* John Lithgow was known for his dramatic villains before ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''.
** Lithgow pretty much played anything: A transsexual in ''[[The World According To Garp]]'', a scientist/father figure in ''[[The Manhattan Project]]'', a minister in ''[[Footloose]]'', and comedic villains in ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]'' and ''[[Santa Claus]]: [[The Movie]]''.
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