Movies where the actor/movie star was literally playing themselves

Julia Roberts in Oceans 12 played Julia Roberts.

Julia Roberts in America's Sweethearts even though she was trying to play against type.

It didn't work.

The Billionaire Boys Club - Kevin Spacey as a rich creep who leers at hot young guys

Ruesy Mac as Blanche Devereaux

Evita - Madonna as a megalomaniac obsessed with fashion

GOOP in The Anniversary Party

Christian Camargo as The Ice Truck Killer on Dexter

Gal Gadot. Not alot of acting required. Probably worked on more the action stuff.

Jon Hamm as Don Draper. Alcoholic damaged womanizer. And he does smoke, even though he tries to hide it.

R8 I always thought that another actor could have done so much more with the role compared to Hamm. He spent most of the show looking puzzled or blank.

Dr. Haing S. Ngor as Dr. Haing S. Ngor in THE KILLING FIELDS.

RDJ in Less than Zero. At the time. But now he tries to jam "I'm Ironman"down our throat. He'd the last superhero I'd call. Hell, I'd call Ant-Man first.

Julia Roberts almost always plays Julia Roberts.

Judy Garland in "I Could Go On Singing".

(R9) I agree. And his movie track record shows that. All his movies bomb. Keeps throwing in our faces that he's in Top Gun. That's Tom Cruise's movie.

A League of Their Own - Madonna as a brassy, loudmouthed tramp

I love Paul Rudd. But he plays at same damn character in these lame romantic comedies. The nice guy that can't catch a break. But in the end, everything works out. Mute on Netflix is the first time in a while I've seen him do something different. He's making a career on being the white privileged boring nice guy.

G in Fatal Attraction

Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, aka herself in almost every single role.

Jennifer Lopez as Ramona in Hustlers.

R3 I have no love for Spacey, but You could find straight older actors doing the same thing in every other movie, so perhaps bit of a double standart there.

Natalie Wood in "Gypsy"

Angelina Jolie in girl interrupted and Gia

OMG, please stop using the word "literally"......everyone! You don't know what it means!

John Malkovich, Neil Patrick Harris, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Grey.......have LITERALLY played themselves.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Kevin as a creepy old queen involved with a much young hustler

Dawson

I hated Notting Hill. Julia Roberts playing the "most beautiful movie star in the world".....um, NO.

R25 only she was the biggest movie star in the world at the time.

Yasssss Kween

My least favorite actress I don’t like any of her movies

R12 she was good in Closer and Erin Brockovich I thought. her mouth is unbelievably huge on screen though when she emotes and that laugh is deafening .

R10 Dr. Haing S. Ngor played the photojournalist Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, but he also survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. His autobiography is excellent but harrowing.

Louise Brooks as the dancing, drinking, slutty, utterly immoral Lulu in "Pandora's Box." G. W. Pabst, the director of the film, told Brooks "Your life is exactly like Lulu's, and you will end the same way. Lula ended up getting killed by one of her tricks. Aside from that, Pabst was exactly right. Louise Brooks WAS Lulu.

Courtney Love as Althea Flynt in "The People Vs. Larry Flynt. Althea Flynt was a bi-sexual, drug-addicted former stripper and uber-slut. And so was Courtney Love.

G in Albert Nobbs.

I was shocked, absolutely shocked, I tell you to learn from a recent thread that Ann Jillian herself played, Ann Jillian, in The Ann Jillian Story. I swear I thought she did not survive the breast cancer and was played by TV’s Lisa Hartman in the movie of her life. So sad that she took away the opportunity for a younger, more talented actress to have a breakout role in an highly acclaimed TV movie of the week. And if Lisa was in it they could of rewritten the ending to have a death scene since Lisa’s excellent dramatic skills could have pulled it off unlike Ann.

Peter Bogdanovich has found a new career playing sleazy Hollywood types. What an acting stretch!

Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. He must have just wandered from home to set, no prep required.

The whole cast in This is The End.

Leonardo DiCaprio in Wolf of Wallstreet

Patty Duke as Neely O'Hara in Valley of the Dolls

Too bad Judy Garland wasn't cast as Helen

Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name

But she wasn't beautiful r26 and certainly not the "most" in the world.

DL fave Kristin Scott Thomas in every movie where she played a neurotic bitch.

That blonde awful actress in This Is 40. Charmless, odd looking- director’s wife.

R42 there was a thread about people who worked with celebs a while back and I was surprised to read an anecdote about Thomas being incredibly unpleasant to work with. I would not have guessed.

Bette Davis's filmography.

Sophia Loren in Sophia Loren: Her Own Story.

Christina Crawford said once that Joan's character in "Queen Bee" was similar to Joan's real-life personality.

Vince Vaughn in everything he's even been in.

Denise Richards in Wild Things Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Angelina Jolie in Girl, interrupted Cate Blanchett in Cinderella Sofia Vergara in everything she has done Emma Stone, La La Land

Meryl Streep in Plenty - boring, shrill and vacuous.

Nicole Kidman in To Die For

Shirley MacLaine in Out on a Limb miniseries.

She was even more unlikable playing herself.

It was uncanny.

Theresa Saldana in The Theresa Saldana Story.

Reese Witherspoon in everything she’s ever been in

Emma Stone in La La Land. An Oscar win that was a waste and a joke.

Julia Robert in Pretty Woman

Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias

Julia Roberts in Sleeping With The Enemy

Julia Roberts in Flatliners

Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza

Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief

Julia Roberts in My Best Friends Wedding

Jack Nicholson I’m Something’s Gotta Give

R58: In Something’s Gotta Give

Frances McDormand in everything she’s ever been in.

Chris Colfer in Glee

Marilyn Monroe in everything she has ever done

[quote] Chris Colfer in Glee

Chris Colfer in Glee, season 2 and forward...after Kurt turned into a sanctimonious asshole. I liked him in Season 1.

Julia Roberts in Something to Talk About

Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

I loved Jon Hamm as Don.

Every movie I was every in.

R16 - Rudd plays a different kind of character in the uneven Ideal Home, and he's pretty good.

Even his hair is different.

Adam Sandler in every Adam Sandler comedy.

Woody Allen in ANNIE HALL Woody Allen in HUSBANDS AND WIVES Woody Allen in HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

Diane Keaton in ANNIE HALL

Diane Keaton in SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE

Diane Keaton in HANGING UP

Diane Keaton in POMS

Barbra Streisand in the movie where she plays a pushy loud wisecracking Jewish woman from Brooklyn who's self-conscious about her appearance while finding herself attracted to an attractive waspy white guy.

R71 is the most overrated “legend” who ever legened!

The only instance of "literally" I can think of is Iron & Silk. It's based on the autobiography of a writer who spent a few years in China. The writer also acted in the film about his own life.

Lady Gaga literally played herself in A Star is Born and she still sucked.

Every film Streisand and Madonna have ever been in.

Everything Robin William did.

R56 Julia Roberts was never considered a good actor; she was known for her unique beauty.

It's called casting OP . That's why they have casting agents.

R70 You forgot Woody Allen in Manhattan in which he plays as pedo.

Richard Burton in Candy

Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan

George Clooney in everything he's ever been in.

I always like Julia in Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich. So sue me.

Timothee Chalamet in everything he’s ever been in.