Dual role

In theatre, the use of multiple roles may be budget-related, may be intended to give an accomplished actor more stage time or a greater challenge, or may be of thematic significance to the story.[4] Lee Marvin won an Academy Award for Best Actor for a dual role in Cat Ballou (1965).Seeta Aur Geeta uses a female version of this plot device in which Hema Malini acted as two separated sisters.In Enthiran (2010), at the time the most expensive Indian film ever made, Rajinikanth plays a dual role covering the two main characters, a scientist and the humanoid robot he created.In television, soap operas have commonly used the technique to either portray twins (or even similar looking relatives), or to bring back an actor whose character has been killed.
Marion Davies has multiple roles in Buried Treasure (1921) which has a reincarnation theme.
Mabel Taliaferro plays twin brother and sister in The Jury of Fate (1917), where the sister assumes the brother's place after he is killed
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