History Main / AsHimself

* WebVideo/{{OnCinema}}: A lot of the people who appear on the show, especially if they make more than one appearance, including Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington, Mark Proksch and Joe Estevez though they tend to play fictionalized versions of themselves.

* In ''Film/KnockedUp, Ryan Seacrest plays a fictional version of himself and the boss of Alison Scott. Unlike in real life where Ryan enjoys being in entertainment shows like E!, this version of Ryan hates it because he wanted to be a respected TV reporter doing real journalism but got stuck doing tabloid news of celebrities.

* Creator/PaulGiamatti plays Paul Giamatti in ''Cold Souls''.

* In ''Full Out: The Ariana Berlin Movie''(which is BasedOnATrueStory), Berlin herself was the gymnastics double for Ana Golja, the actress playing her in the film.

->''"I wonder if {{Music/Prince}} felt bad about writing songs for [[ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker]] after all this was over. The one who lives in the universe of the ''Batman'' movie, I mean. I'm sure the ''real'' Prince was just fine with it."''
-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-1989-part-two-review/ on]] ''Film/Batman1989''

* Creator/TakashiMiike shows up in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' [[spoiler: to deliver a Beam katana to Shinobou.]]

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Creator/MinamiTakayama appears as herself, while TalkingToHerself with Conan.

* ''Series/{{VIP}}'' had Music/{{Lit}} appear as themselves hiring Val to be their bodyguard. They then later ask her to guest star AsHerself in [[Music/{{Miserable}} their music video.]] Which in itself [[ZigZaggedTrope zig zagged]] what happened in real life.

* In ''Full Out'', the 2015 film {{Based On|A True Story}} the story of UCLA gymnast Ariana Berlin, Berlin herself was the gymnastics stunt double for the Ariana Berlin character (primarily played by Ana Golja).

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': A peculiar example in that the "actor" is a geologic feature rather than a person. [[KirksRock Vasquez Rocks]] has been used as a filming location many times throughout the ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek]]'' Franchise as far back as ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]''. In the third episode of Picard, Vasquez Rocks [[MythologyGag finally appear as Vasquez Rocks]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': Creator/AlexTrebek and Mark Hamill play themselves, and the former ends up being Lydia's husband in the DistantFinale.

* Steve and Terri Irwin in ''The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course''.

** The late Adam West played recurring character Mayor Adam West.

* Since it's a series about voice actors, ''Manga/SoreGaSeiyuu'' has famous seiyuu cameos at least OnceAnEpisode including Creator/MasakoNozawa, Creator/HiroshiKamiya, and Creator/YukariTamura. And of course, the author herself, Creator/MasumiAsano and her {{Identical Stranger}}s.

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* Stew, book writer and co-music writer of the semi-autobiographical show ''Theatre/PassingStrange'', starred in the original productions as TheNarrator, who introduces himself in the first song as "Stew", which just adds to the [[MindScrew strangeness]] because he's narrating a story based on the real Stew's life story, which is also strongly implied to be the character Stew's literal life story. It's a little confusing if you think about it too hard, [[BellisariosMaxim so don't.]]
** Things would have gotten '''really''' crazy if his understudy had ever gone on.

* A variation in ''Film/RogueOne''. Cassian Andor is played by Creator/DiegoLuna. In the Latin-American Spanish dub, his lines were dubbed over by... [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor Diego Luna]].