Fictional stories sometimes feature a fictional movie or play. In these cases, occasionally, a fictional actor appears. In movies, it is not infrequent that a real, famous actor plays the role of a fictional person who is also an actor.
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Fictional actors in movies and television The following list features fictional actors including, in (parentheses), 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 television series where the fictional actor appeared.
A, B, C A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), real name Reggie Franklin, a member of the Seven, the Vought corporation's most popular superhero team, with the film, television, music, streaming services and promotion deals that entails. Stars as himself in Dawn of the Seven (produced by Vought Studios in association with Vought International), the seventh installment in the Vought Cinematic Universe - The Boys Adore (Jackie Haley), androgynous child actor aspirant – The Day of the Locust Ah-cheng (), Taiwanese actor who has a bad stardom – episode 9 “Movie Ends” Big Albert (voiced by Roberto Encinas), a monster turned actor, like most stars at MKO; a Frankenstein monster-like being, he is the most intelligent man in the world thanks to his brain; he discovered that MKO producer and former stuntsbeing William A. FitzRandolph had a dangerous secret – Hollywood Monsters 2 (video game)Some monster characters from this game are not confirmed to be actors: FitzRandolph (Antonio Gálvez) and the Poet (Luis Bajo) are said to have been stuntsmen; Professors Mosca (Carlos Del Pino) and Zelssius (Tony Canal) are apparently only scientists; and High Priestess Krom-Ha (Conchi López) is, as far as we know, a mummy illusionist with her own show, not necessarily an actress. Alicia (Cecilia Roth), actress and friend of Hache – Martín (Hache) Tim Allgood (Mark Linn-Baker), stagehand and occasional replacing actor ("the burglar") – Noises Off... Misa Amane, Japanese model and film actress - Death Note Aki Amano (Rena Nōnen), Japanese idol and television actress - Amachan Louie Amendola (Jimmy Durante), retired vaudeville actor – The Great Rupert Jeffrey Anderson (Kevin Kline), theater and TV actor, acted alongside Celeste Talbert in soap opera The Sun Also Sets (acting as Dr. Rod Randall), former lover of Talbert – Soapdish Anna (Sally Kirkland), middle-aged Czech star looking for work in New York – Anna The Ape Man (Denny Scott Miller), unidentified actor who impersonates an Ape Man – Gilligan's Island, episode: "The Ape Man" Eve Appleton (Kay Francis), actress who rises from burlesque to Broadway – Comet over Broadway Joyce Arden (Bette Davis), temperamental actress, frequent co-star and fiancée of Basil Underwood – It's Love I'm After Mavis Arden (Mae West), glamorous movie star, "the talk of the talkies", stranded in rural Pennsylvania while promoting her latest film, Superfine Pictures' Drifting Lady – Go West, Young Man Arthur (Stanley Tucci), comedy actor and partner to Maurice – The Impostors Don Arturo (Fernando Fernán Gómez), theater actor in the Spanish 1940s and 1950s – El Viaje a Ninguna Parte Brooke Ashton (Nicollette Sheridan), theater actress who played Vicki – Noises Off... Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep), narcissistic film and stage actress desperate to retain beauty and fame - Death Becomes Her Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch), toon actor – Who Framed Roger Rabbit Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers), an extra from India – The Party Great Balso (Val Setz) – Powder River Josh and Dinah Barkley (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), husband-and-wife musical comedy team who temporarily split up when Dinah is cast in a dramatic play as Sarah Bernhardt – The Barkleys of Broadway Tom Baron (Bill Goodwin) – The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again Diana Barrie (Maggie Smith), Oscar-nominated actress – California Suite Tim Bart (Richard Dix), western actor – It Happened in Hollywood Bruce Baxter (Kyle Chandler), movie star who acts in films that include sex and nudity – King Kong (2005) Sylvia Bennington (Nancy Travis) - Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady Bianca (Eline Powell), a young mummer in Izembaro's Braavosi theater troupe - Game of Thrones Isabel Bigelow (Nicole Kidman), witch who debuted as an actress with the 2005 remake of Bewitched – Bewitched Bill (Winston Dennis), a theater actor who plays Baron Munchausen's incredibly strong servant Albrecht (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) Black Noir, (Nathan Mitchell and Fritzy-Klevans Destine), real name Earving, mysterious mute member of the Seven. Was a member of Payback in the 1980s. Presumably starred as himself in Payback, Red Thunder, three seasons of Payback!, Dawn of the Seven and Noir, Really, a Christmas-themed romantic comedy film - The Boys John Blakeford (John Halliday), actor – Hollywood Boulevard Belinda Blair (Marilu Henner), theater actress playing Flavia Brent – Noises Off... Elliot Blitzer (Bronson Pinchot) an actor, cocaine addict, and police informant in True Romance Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook), 18-year-old student who acts in experimental, performance plays – She's All That Don Bolton (Bob Hope) – Caught in the Draft Milo Booth (voice unidentified), deceased silent film star whose ghost is impersonated by a dognapper – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, episode: "Chiller Diller Movie Thriller" Dusty Bottoms (Chevy Chase), acted in westerns with Lucky Day and Ned Nederlander during the silent film era – Three Amigos Rodney Bowman (Bruce Lester) – Boy Meets Girl Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli et al.), cabaret actress in Kit Kat Club, Berlin, during the 1930s – Cabaret Woody Boyd (Woody Harelson), part-time theatre actor in Cheers Billy Boyle (Norman Foster), aging ex-child star and loyal member of director Jake Hannaford's entourage – The Other Side of the Wind (unfinished film) Alan Brady (Carl Reiner), star of the Alan Brady Show – The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Alan Brady Show and Mad About You Blair Brennan (Paul Johansson), actor in soap opera The Sun Also Sets – Soapdish Myles Brent (Edmund Burns), actor – The Death Kiss Darryl Brewster (Ron Ely), star of Steve Swaggert, Private Eye; a passenger on The Pacific Princess – The Love Boat Dion (Coolio) and Leon Brothers (Chuck D.), directors and probably actors of blaxploitation – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger), aspiring actress - Bugsy Malone Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), actor who was blacklisted after he was suspected of being a Communist – The Front Thomas Brown (Will Rogers) – Doubting Thomas Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey), who acted as himself – The Truman Show Russell Burke (Marc Blucas), movie star who shadows Detective Danny Reagan on the job for research on a film role; he ends up assisting Reagan on an actual case – Blue Bloods Francis "Frank" Burns (James Russo), troubled movie actor with history of drug addiction – Dangerous Game Lola Burns (Jean Harlow), blonde movie sex symbol – Bombshell Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), pretentious Shakespearean actor – The Impostors Johnny Cage (Dan Pesina and Chris Alexander in video games; Linden Ashby in first movie; Chris Conrad in sequel; Jeff Durbin, Bran Halstead and Ted Nordblum in theatre), action movie star – Mortal Kombat series Calvero (Charles Chaplin), washed-up vaudevillian in Limelight; his partner was played by Buster Keaton Elsa Campbell (née Brinkmann) (Kim Novak), an unknown hired to portray ill-fated screen legend Lylah Clare in a biopic – The Legend of Lylah Clare Wally Campbell (Bob Hope), actor – The Cat and the Canary Judy Canfield (Lucille Ball), sharp-tongued, Seattle-born aspiring actress, resident of the theatrical rooming house The Footlights Club – Stage Door Carol (Christine Baranski), aging star on Bobby Bowfinger's productions – Bowfinger Choi Hee-jin (Yoo In-na), South Korean unsuccessful actress – Queen and I Claudia Casswell (Marilyn Monroe), bubble-headed aspiring actress, "a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts" and protégé of columnist Addison DeWitt – All About Eve Tony Cavendish (Fredric March), actor – The Royal Family of Broadway Blake Chandler (Sharon Stone), Cybill Shepherd-esque star of Brodsky's film Atlanta – Irreconcilable Differences Margo Channing (Bette Davis), temperamental, insecure, veteran Broadway star – All About Eve; Margo Channing was also listed in the opening credits of the film Sleuth (but did not appear in that film) and on a poster briefly seen in the Bette Davis film Connecting Rooms Vera Charles (Coral Browne), elegant, alcoholic Broadway star, born in Pittsburgh – Auntie Mame Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), supernatural detective and unsuccessful actress – Angel Johnny Drama (né 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 Victoria Chase (Wendie Malick), actress from Edge of Tomorrow, a soap opera that was canceled after a very long run; recently won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress – Hot In Cleveland Vincent "Vince" Chase (Adrian Grenier), up-and-coming Hollywood movie actor from Queens; had a breakout with Head On, co-starring Jessica Alba; turned out big budget studio film Matterhorn to work on indie Queens Boulevard, well received in Sundanc; played title character in James Cameron's Aquaman – Entourage Thelma Cheri (Marla Shelton), double-crossing Hollywood star – Stand-In Cherish (Alicia Witt), redhead porn actress who "parodies" Honey Whitlock's movies – Cecil B. DeMented Cherry Chester (Margaret Sullavan), née Sarah Brown, temperamental movies star/heiress – The Moon's Our Home Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), rapper/actor – Tropic Thunder Christian (Ewan McGregor), bohemian poet and forced actor in his own play in 1899 in the Moulin Rouge – Moulin Rouge! Lorne Chumley, legendary motion picture actor; his extraordinary makeup skills earned him the nickname "The Man With a Million Faces" (parody of Lon Chaney Sr.) – The New Scooby-Doo Movies Jake Clampett (King Donovan), penniless struggling actor arrested for theft – The Beverly Hillbillies, episode: "The Clampetts Are Overdrawn" Lylah Clare (Kim Novak), ill-fated screen legend (inspired by Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich), being portrayed by Elsa Campbell (née Brinkmann) in biopic – The Legend of Lylah Clare John Clarron (Derek Farr), retired actor plotting to poison his wife - The Saint season 1 episode 1 "The Talented Husband" Laura Claybourne (Emma Samms), soap opera actress – Delirious Daisy Clover (Natalie Wood), teenage singer/actress of the 1930s (inspired by Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin), briefly married to bisexual actor Wade Lewis – Inside Daisy Clover Katherine “Kitty” Cobham (Cherie Lunghi), posing as the Duchess of Wharfedale - The Duchess and the Devil Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor looking for one last hookup before his impending marriage and real estate career - Sideways Willie Coon (George Forbes), TV actor acting in racist series That's My Boy – C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America Chad Dylan Cooper (Sterling Knight), teen soap star diva on fictional TV series, "Mackenzie Falls", TV series Sonny with a Chance Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd), actor wanted for murder – Stage Fright Professor Arthur Corvus (Mark Pellegrino) - (A Murder of Crows) Lori Craven (Elisabeth Shue), actress in soap opera The Sun Also Sets, related to star Celeste Talbert (character: Angelique) – Soapdish