TV Actor/Actress that successfully played more than one popular role

[Riv86672]

I want this acting mashup to actually exist.

LOL, too many names in too short a span!

[Midvillian1322]

Michale B Jordan played fan favorite chatacters in All My children, then The wire, and finaly Parenthood before graduating to a movie star. Despite being small characters in all those shows he instantly became a standout.

Same with Idris Elba in Luthor and The wire.

[Marvelgirl]

Milo Ventimiglia
Heroes, This is Us, Gilmore Girls

Ben McKenzie
The OC, Gotham

Alexis Bledel
Gilmore Girls, The Handmaid's Tale

[Jim Kelly]

Milo doesn't get credit for being on GILMORE GIRLS?

[tkitna]

Michael Landon - Bonanza, Little House On The Prairie, Highway To Heaven
Tim Allen - Home Improvement, Last Man Standing

[numberthirty]

LOL, too many names in too short a span!

No. You had it completely right.

When I thought it over, I couldn't come up with a single Harry Dean Stanton role that I couldn't picture Jeffrey Dean Morgan playing.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Fred Gywnne: The Munsters and Car 54, Where Are You?

Dick Van Dyke: The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder

Robert Conrad: The Wild, Wild West and Baa Baa Black Sheep (or Black Sheep Squadron)

[Riv86672]

No. You had it completely right.

When I thought it over, I couldn't come up with a single Harry Dean Stanton role that I couldn't picture Jeffrey Dean Morgan playing.

^^^I am still chagrined, but also laughing!

Anyone mention Don Knotts, as Barney Fife in THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW and Mr. Furley in THREE’S COMPANY?

[Osiris-Rex]

Melissa Benoist - Glee + Supergirl

Kaley Cuoco - Ladies man + 8 Simple Rules + Brandy & Mr. Whiskers + Bratz + Charmed + The Big Bang Theory + Harley Quinn

Jesse L. Martin - Law & Order + The Flash

Johnny Galecki - Roseanne + The Big Bang Theory

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Teri Hatcher: Lois & Clark and Desperate Housewives

Jon Berenthal: The Walking Dead and The Punisher

[babyblob]

Katey Sagal - Married with Children, Furturama

Michael Chiklis - The Commish, The Shield, Gotham

[caj]

Michale B Jordan played fan favorite chatacters in All My children, then The wire, and finaly Parenthood before graduating to a movie star. Despite being small characters in all those shows he instantly became a standout.

He also had a featured role as the quarterback on the last two seasons of Friday Night Lights.

[caj]

Robert Reed was on four seasons of The Defenders and then played Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch

[Jim Kelly]

Canadian actors are hungry for work. You have Lorne Green, William Shatner, Michael J. Fox that have had multiple series. On Canadian-made shows, actors need to have at least two jobs.

Patrick McKenna held down a regular job on TRADERS while playing a completely different character on THE RED GREEN SHOW.

Victor Garber has been several different characters at the same time. We know him as Professor Stein from THE FLASH and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, but he's also been working on other series like POWER and TALES OF THE CITY and CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Before that he was on ALIAS and THE FAMILY STONE. To name but a few.

Eric Peterson was on STREET LEGAL for many years, while doing other jobs for other series. And then he was on CORNER GAS.

Erica Durance was on SMALLVILLE and then SAVING HOPE, as well as SUPERGIRL.

Kristin Kreuk was playing a teen high school student on EDGEMONT and she stayed on that series, while playing another high school teen on SMAVLLVILLE. And she went on to star in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Katey Sagal - Married with Children, Furturama

Don’t forget Sons of Anarchy.

As for her Married With Children co-star Ed O’Neill, he’s currently starring in Modern Family.