It would seem that being firmly in a particular role should interfere with the development of actors’ careers, but often the opposite happens - people become stars by actually playing the same characters from film to film. 
However, this does not mean that such actors do not have the ability to go beyond the spectrum of their typical performance. That's why they are artists, to sometimes embody on screen those people who are completely different from themselves or from those characters whom they are most comfortable playing.
Today we decided to look at those actors and actresses who, to be honest, most often play the same characters, but at the same time looked beyond their roles, thereby managing to greatly surprise and, in a good way, impress audiences and critics.
Keira Knightley 
The actress constantly plays rich women in beautiful costumes (and always a corset) from historical melodramas. An exceptional film in Knightley's career was Domino (2005), where the actress played a tough bounty hunter.
Michael Cera 
The actor constantly plays insecure comedic characters. An exceptional film in Cera's career was The Big Game (2017), where he played the role of a star-studded and influential young rich man who plays poker in an underground casino.
Hugh grant 
Grant is a regular hero of romantic films, but with age the actor was drawn to participate in films of other genres, the brightest of which was his participation in Guy Ritchie’s film “The Gentlemen” (2019). Here Grant played a cynical private detective blackmailing serious drug dealers.
Jason Segel 
The actor is known for playing the roles of nice, sociable guys in romantic comedies. The biographical film “Endgame” (2015) became an exceptional career for the actor, where Siegel played the famous American writer David Foster Wallace.
Seth Rogen 
The leitmotif in Rogen's career is a funny and lovable oaf from youth comedies; a striking exception was the film “Steve Jobs” (2015), where Rogen played Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc.
Zach Galifianakis 
In almost all of his films he plays eccentric bearded men, a la the Hangover trilogy, but in the film Birdman (2014), the actor played the dramatic role of a lawyer and friend of the main character.
Michelle Rodriguez 
The actress's role is that of a militant rebel from action films, ready to fix anything and lay it on anyone. A notable exception is the drama film Widows (2018), where Rodriguez played the grieving wife of a deceased robber.
Vin Diesel 
One of the most famous representatives of the “tough action hero” role was noticeably reincarnated in the film “Find Me Guilty” (2006). Here, Diesel plays a former gangster nicknamed "Fat Jack" (which is already unusual), who becomes his own lawyer and defends himself and other members of the mafia clan, not with muscles, but with words.
Bruce Willis 
Vin Diesel's colleague in the role of "cool action hero" appeared in a completely atypical form in the black comedy "Death Becomes Her" (1992), where Willis plays the hapless plastic surgeon Ernest.
Jackie Chan 
The cheerful and energetic hero of comedy action films with the most hilarious fight scenes in the history of cinema, Jackie Chan, in his early sixties, decided to play in a dramatic thriller. This is how the film “Foreigner” (2017), unlike any other project by Chan, appeared, in the credits of which there is no longer a cut of funny footage from the filming.
Ryan Reynolds 
Reynolds is often accused of playing the same character everywhere - himself. That is, a funny, talkative hero who gets into various troubles. Even the fact that the actor's characters often turn out to be dangerous and armed guys doesn't really change his performance.
However, in Captive (2014), Reynolds showed his dramatic chops as the father of a daughter who disappeared eight years ago, who begins to find evidence that she may still be alive.
Adam Sandler 
Known as the main character of a huge number of second-rate but popular comedies. An exceptional film in the actor’s career is the thriller “Uncut Gems” (2019). In it, Sandler played an incorrigible gambler who drove himself into debt due to unsuccessful bets, but this time it is not another funny Sandler hero, but a truly dramatic character.
For this role, the actor even received a positive award from the Golden Raspberry for restoring his reputation.
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