Examples of Role Reprise where the actor returned to play or voice the role in a live action film - these include any cases where the role was originated in a different medium (e.g. live action tv, video games or animation).
They also include examples where the actor voices a character they're not physically playing (e.g. CGI characters).
There is a minimum time gap for most examples. To qualify for the trope, the gap between appearances (based on release date) should be 5 years or more. There's no such waiting period for actors who return to a Historical Domain Character or Public Domain Character in a new, unrelated production - even if it's based on the same work.
If the actor had previously played the role in live action and it's not a voice-only role, any voice acting done during the gap (e.g. voicing the character for games or animation) does not disqualify an example.
For the purpose of this trope, variants such as Alternate Universe and Alternate Continuity versions are treated as the same character.
- The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: In the final installment, Love on the Run, Jean-Pierre Léaud reprised the role of Antoine Doinel nine years after Bed and Board and Marie-France Pisier reprised the role of Colette eleven years after her short appearance in Stolen Kisses.
- DC Extended Universe:
- Zack Snyder's Justice League: Jared Leto returned as the Joker after not having taken part to any DCEU film since since Suicide Squad (2016). He parted ways with DC Films due to Creative Differences and constant direction changes, but Zack Snyder convinced him to return to film a Bad Future scene in 2020 (while the rest of the film was shot in 2016).
- Black Adam (2022)'s post-credits scene features the return of Henry Cavill as Superman, with this being the first time Cavill had actually filmed new footage as the character since 2017's Justice League (2017).
- The Flash (2023) film sees the return of Michael Keaton as Batman, a role he last played in 1992's Batman Returns, via multiverse crossover. The film also features Michael Shannon as General Zod and Antje Traue as Faora, neither of whom has been seen alive since 2013's Man of Steel.
- James Bond:
- Sean Connery left the role of Bond in the Eon Productions series in 1967 after You Only Live Twice. His replacement actor, George Lazenby, didn't last more than one film and Connery was brought back for Diamonds Are Forever in 1971 for a hefty sum (also counting as The Original Darrin). He then quit the series once and for all. He would return in the role however, in a rival production to Eon, Never Say Never Again, in 1983, the last time he played the role on film. Then, he reprised the role for the last time in any media in 2005, through voice acting in the video game 007: From Russia with Love.
- For Licence to Kill (1989), producer Albert R. Broccoli wanted a previous Felix Leiter actor (the role had run on The Other Darrin up to this point), so David Hedison was brought back sixteen years after Live and Let Die.
- Judi Dench (M) was the only regular cast member to be brought back from the Pierce Brosnan era into the Daniel Craig era, from Die Another Day (2002) to Casino Royale (2006), which was a Continuity Reboot, so technically she played two Ms, one for each era.
- Both Léa Seydoux and Christoph Waltz from Spectre (2015) were brought back in No Time to Die (2021), which was unusual for both a Bond girl and a Bond villain respectively.
- In No Time to Die again, Jeffrey Wright reprised the role of Felix Leiter, which he hadn't played since 2008's Quantum of Solace, beating David Hedison's record of two times as Leiter.
- TRON:
- Jeff Bridges reprising the role of Kevin Flynn in TRON: Legacy after more than 25 years.
- Boxleitner started reprising his characters for that universe as early as 2003's TRON 2.0 (as Alan Bradley), and kept coming back (in TRON: Evolution, Kingdom Hearts II, TRON: Legacy and TRON: Uprising).
- A variant with Cindy Morgan, who played Lora and Yori in the original. She came back in TRON 2.0, but it was as the Benevolent A.I. Ma3a. Lora Baines-Bradley was killed off in the Backstory. Turns out to be a double subversion - Ma3a is Lora, who was killed by her laser, but her consciousness was trapped inside the computer system, and compiled with the Math Assistant AI.
- Star Trek:
- A major coup for the movies was getting all of the original series actors to play their characters. Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand) and John Winston (Lieutenant Kyle) also had bit parts in some of the movies, reprising their roles from Star Trek: The Original Series.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has Ricardo Montalbán reprise his role as the one-off villain Khan from the original series episode "Space Seed", filmed 15 years earlier.
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock has Mark Lenard reprise his role as Ambassador Sarek, father of Spock, nearly 17 years after his one-off appearance in the original series episode "Journey to Babel". Sarek went on to appear in the fourth and sixth movies as well.
- Jane Wyatt also reprised her role from "Journey to Babel" as Spock's mother Amanda in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, after 19 years.
- Leonard Nimoy reprising Spock in Star Trek (2009), after not having played the character since 1991's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This is somewhat ironic, as he almost didn't show up in the original movies due to not being interested in playing Spock anymore. He ended up playing his character longer than anyone else.
- The other returning role was Majel Barrett (who had previously returned as Christine Chapel — promoted from Nurse to Doctor — in the movies), as the ship computer voice - she had died the year prior, but most of her recordings were already done.
- In both 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Keir Dullea plays Dr David Bowman. He remarkably doesn't seem to have aged at all between the two films, even though they were made 16 years apart.
- Peter Cullen, the original voice of Optimus Prime, reprised his role in the live-action Transformers films, to much rejoicing.
- While Frank Welker was replaced as Megatron in the films, Welker performed the role in the related material such as the video games. He eventually retakes the role properly as Galvatron, who is really Megatron Back from the Dead, in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and the very next film, Transformers: The Last Knight, has him reclaim his old name. Welker also reprises his role as Soundwave in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen.
- When Charlie's Angels (2000) was revived as a film two decades after the series ended, the same actor, John Forsythe, returned to play Charlie. Additionally, Jaclyn Smith returned as original Angel, Kelly Garrett, for a brief scene in the second film, 22 years after the fact.
- Quite a few Star Wars actors from the original movies showed up again for the prequels. Probably the most impressive example is Ian McDiarmid; having played the Emperor under heavy aging makeup in his mid-30s, he ended up being just about the right age to play the younger version with no makeup at all by the time the prequels rolled around.
- Anthony Daniels also returned as C-3PO and Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca in Revenge of the Sith (he was also a direct consultant on his animated version seen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars). As a respect to the actor who portrayed the shakes and movements of R2-D2, Kenny Baker, they credited him in the prequels although by that time R2 was largely motorized or CG.
- While something of an open secret long before it was announced, most of the major actors from the original trilogy whose characters hadn't been killed off (Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew) returned for The Force Awakens. Also, Frank Oz returned as Yoda in The Last Jedi and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian in The Rise of Skywalker.
- In the Italian dub of the extra scenes added in the various Special Editions, Darth Vader is the only one who kept the original voice actor.
- Femi Taylor shot some new scenes as Oola, the Twi'lek dancer Jabba fed to a rancor, for the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi.
- Rogue One featured the returns of Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa and Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma, making them the first two actors from the prequels to appear in the Disney-era films.note Angus MacInnes, who played Gold Leader in A New Hope, recorded new dialogue for his character, which combined with unused footage from that film allowed his character to return for Rogue One's space battle. James Earl Jones also returned as the voice of Darth Vader.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: Aside from the actors returning in various films throughout the franchise, there have been significant reappearances:
- Captain America: Civil War had the return of William Hurt as Thunderbolt Ross, his first appearance as the character in 8 years since The Incredible Hulk note .
- Captain Marvel has Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson (last seen on-screen in The Avengers, although he has played the character on TV since 2013), and Djimon Hounsou and Lee Pace as Korath the Pursuer and Ronan the Accuser, respectively (both last seen in Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014). The first one is also de-aged digitally given the movie is a Period Piece set in the 1990s (the other two are aliens and thus excused from looking the same).
- Avengers: Endgame has Ty Simpkins return as Harley Keener, the Tagalong Kid from Iron Man 3, five years prior, attending Tony's funeral.
- The mid-credits scene for Spider-Man: Far From Home has the surprise return of J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, the role he previously played in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings had Ben Kingsley return as Trevor Slattery, last seen in All Hail the King. An uncredited Tim Roth also reprises his role as the Abomination from 2008's The Incredible Hulk through voiceover, albeit through grunts and roars.
- Spider-Man: No Way Home includes several actors reprising their roles from the previous non-MCU Spidey movies. These actors include Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin, Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus and Thomas Haden Church as Sandman from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, as well as Rhys Ifans as the Lizard and Jamie Foxx as Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man Series. Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield also return as their respective iterations of Spider-Man in time for the third act.
- Similarly, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness features the return of Patrick Stewart as a Variant of Professor X, his character from Fox's X-Men movies. Anson Mount also returns as Black Bolt, a role he previously played in the short-lived Inhumans TV series.
- The Stinger of The Marvels (2023) had Kelsey Grammer return as Beast, a role he originated in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and previously reprised in a similar cameo for 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. It isn't stated if this Beast is from the X-Men film continuity or new variant with the same actor.
- Deadpool & Wolverine brings back most of the key characters from the previous two movies, including Ryan Reynolds as the titular anti-hero, Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Stefan Kapičić as Colossus, Karan Soni as Dopinder, Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio, Lewis Tan as Shatterstar and Rob Delaney as Peter, all of whom were last seen in 2018's Deadpool 2 before Fox was purchased by Disney. The film also features the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine after he'd previously retired from the role with 2017's Logan. Due to the emphasis on The Multiverse, various other characters from defunct pre-MCU Marvel properties also appear, including Jennifer Garner reprising her role as Elektra Natchios from Daredevil and her self-titled spin-off, and Aaron Stanford as Pyro, marking his return to the role for the first time since 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand.
- In Captain America: Brave New World, Liv Tyler and Tim Blake Nelson are set to return as Betty Ross and Samuel Sterns a whopping 16 years since The Incredible Hulk (2008).
- Despite the length of time from the first to the fifth, Bruce Willis played John McClane of the New York Police Department in all the Die Hard movies.
- Harrison Ford plays the title character of Indiana Jones in the first three movies (1981, 1984 and 1989), and then reprised the role in the fourth movie from 2008 and the fifth movie from 2023. Karen Allen also reprised the role of Marion Ravenwood from the first movie in both those films. The third film also brought back Denholm Elliott as Marcus Brody and John Rhys-Davies as Sallah from the first film, with the latter also reprising his role in the fifth film.
- Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator. Explaining in an interview that West had been in prison for 13 years, the interviewer asked Combs if he'd be wearing aging make up. The answer was no, he was actually 13 years older.
- The Halloween films:
- Jamie Lee Curtis returned to reprise her role of Laurie Strode in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, 17 years after she last played the role in the two original films. She briefly returned again a few years later in Halloween: Resurrection (which she admits was only done to fulfill contract requirements). Now she's doing it for a fourth time in Halloween (2018).
- Donald Pleasence reprised his role of Dr. Loomis for four sequels over the course of 18 years before he passed away and the character was killed off.
- Nancy Stephens also returned to play Nurse Marion Chambers in H20 after previously playing the role in the original two films. She returned in Halloween Kills, released 23 years after H20.
- Nick Castle who played Michael Myers in the original film reprised his role 40 years later in Halloween (2018).
- In addition to Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers, Halloween Kills touts the return of Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace (marking her first appearance in the series after 43 years, her last non-archive appearance having been the original 1978 film) and Charles Cyphers as Sherriff Leigh Brackett (last seen in Halloween II).
- Voice actor Chiharu Sawashiro was in the live action SOARA movie, reprising his role as Nozomu from the anime and audio dramas.
- After George Lazenby's only role as James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sean Connery came back as James Bond for Diamonds Are Forever before Roger Moore took over in Live and Let Die. In 1983, Sean Connery came back as Bond in the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
- Speaking of Live and Let Die, that movie's Felix Leiter, David Hedison, returned 16 years later in Licence to Kill as a Continuity Nod (even if in the previous movie it was another actor).
- When the series rebooted with Casino Royale (2006), replacing Pierce Brosnan's Bond and dropping Samantha Bond's Moneypenny and John Cleese's Q (both roles would be recast in Skyfall), Judi Dench stayed on as M.
- Nine years after the end of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, and Andy Serkis prominently reprise their roles as Gandalf, Elrond, and Gollum, respectively, in Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. The films also insert Ian Holm as the elderly Bilbo Baggins as a Continuity Cameo (the younger Bilbo is played by Martin Freeman), and sneak in Elijah Wood (Frodo), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), and Orlando Bloom (Legolas) for a few Early Bird Cameos.
- When Lost in Space got a movie in 1998, they hired an all new cast to portray the roles of the Robinson Family, Major Don West, and Dr Zachary Smith. Dick Tufeld, however, would reprise his role of Robot for the movie.
- Paul Newman played "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler (1961) and then 25 years later, reprised the role in The Color of Money.
- Though only for one song, only for a theatre skit, and in a lab coat instead of a corset, Tim Curry reprised his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The song was "Sweet Transvestite", no less, and everyone loved it.
- Curry played the same role in the original play. Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Meat Loaf and Nell Campbell also reprised their roles.
- In the Latin-American Spanish dub of the first live-action Flintstones movie, Arturo Mercado reprised his role as "Pedro Picapiedra" (Fred Flintstone; played here [on screen] by John Goodman). The Brazilian dub did something similar by bringing in the original Barney.
- In the Italian dub of the two Smurfs movies, Fabrizio Mazzotta, Marco Guadagno, Fiamma Izzo, and Paolo Buglioni reprise their roles as Clumsy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Smurfette and Gargamel from the original cartoon.
- In the European French dub, Gérard Hernandez reprised his role as Papa Smurf from the original cartoonnote , being one of the few major voice actors who worked on that dub to be either still alive or not yet retired. However, Céline Monsarrat (the original French voice of Smurfette and the only other voice actor from that cartoon to still be active) didn’t reprise the role, instead being replaced by famous Quebecer singer Béatrice Martin AKA Coeur de piratenote .
- Quite common for Brazilian dubs of a Live-Action Adaptation: most of the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) and X-Men: The Animated Series (even if the Wolverine fits the cartoon
more than Hugh Jackman), He-Man and Skeletor in Masters of the Universe, Megatron and Starscream in Transformers... and in an animated-to-motion capture example, the Tintin from the TV cartoon was retained for the feature film.- While Disney's live action remakes in The New '10s usually got whole new casts, Aladdin (2019) had Márcio Simões back as the Genie (though he had to audition, even if not only he was the original Genie, but also dubs over Will Smith in most movies).
- The DC Extended Universe brought back the animated voices of both Superman and Harley Quinn.
- Romy Schneider played Elisabeth of Austria in a trio of romantic films beginning with 1955's Sissi and then reprised her role as a much more serious and cynical Elisabeth in 1972's Ludwig playing her later on in life.
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa portrayed Shang Tsung in the 1995 Mortal Kombat: The Movie. He reprises his role as the evil sorcerer in the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy.
- Momoko Kochi played Emiko Yamane in the 1954 Gojira. She returned as Emiko in 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
- Deadpool: Ryan Reynolds reprises the role of Wade Wilson/Deadpool five years after X-Men Origins: Wolverine despite being another continuity and the fact that his first portrayal of the character was very different from his comic book conterpart.
- Show Boat: The 1936 movie version reunited numerous principal and even secondary actors from the two Ziegfeld productions, including Helen Morgan as Julie in what turned out to be her last movie appearance.
- Jimmy Durante starred in the Hippodrome musical Billy Rose's Jumbo, and reprised his role in the movie version released 27 later.
- Liz Smith, who played Mrs. Dilber in A Christmas Carol (1984), reprised the role in the A Christmas Carol (1999).
- Alex Vincent, who played Andy Barclay in the first two Child's Play films, reprises the role in The Stinger of Curse of Chucky, twenty-three years later, and returned in Cult of Chucky, this time playing a main role.
- In the European French dub of the DC Extended Universe movies, Superman is voiced by Adrien Antoine, reprising his role from Superman Returns.
- Twenty years after Mrs Brown, Judi Dench reprises the role of Queen Victoria in Victoria & Abdul.
- James Earl Jones returns as the voice of Mufasa in the 2019 Live-Action Adaptation of The Lion King. Jones is notably the only surviving actor from the original film to be reprising his role, and is also the first actor to reprise their role in one of Disney's live-action remakes. Jones' return is due to being regarded by director Jon Favreau as iconic and irreplaceable in his role, and general sentiment is that Mufasa is Jones' other signature character besides Darth Vader himself.
- Annette Badland and Ian MacNeice played Mrs. and Mr. Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol (1999) and reprised it for The Man Who Invented Christmas.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit has Mae Questel reprise her role as Betty Boop and this was about 50 years after her original theatrical cartoons had ended.
- Christopher Robin has Jim Cummings reprising his iconic roles of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger (though initial reports said that Chris O'Dowd would play the latter). Although not the official voice, Brad Garrett has provided Eeyore's voice in some side material. Much like James Earl Jones as Mufasa above, Jim Cummings was likely kept because his performances as Pooh and Tigger are that iconic (although Cumming voices are imitations of the original voice actors Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell).
- Joanna Barnes, who played the dad's girlfriend Vicki in The Parent Trap, played the girlfriend's mother in the 37-years-later remake, also named Vicki. This implies the remake could actually be a sequel.
- An early draft of Deadpool 2 had Chris Evans reprise his role as Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch. One Upon a Deadpool (a PG-13 cut of the movie) also has an in-universe, enforced example: Fred Savage is forced by Deadpool to reprise his role as the grandson from The Princess Bride, which involves tying him up with tape to the bed.Deadpool: You were nicer as a kid!
- Kim Possible has Patton Oswalt reprise the role of Professor Dementor from the cartoon . Likewise, Nancy Cartwright reprises the role of Rufus.
- In The Producers remake, everyone but Ulla and Liebkind is the same actor from the stage adaptation.
- Danny DeVito had played Martini in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest before playing him in the movie.
- In the Argentinian Spanish dub of Hellboy (2019), Mario De Candia, who voiced the titular character in the second dubbed version of the 2004 film, reprises the role once again.
- The 2019 film Robert The Bruce has Angus Macfayden in the title role, 24 years after playing the part in Braveheart.
- After Michael Keaton appeared in Jackie Brown as DEA agent Ray Nicolette, Keaton reprised the role in an uncredited cameo in Out of Sight. Both films were adaptations of Elmore Leonard novels.
- Mark Hamill had voiced Chucky in an episode of Robot Chicken and then voiced him again in Child's Play (2019). Interestingly enough, he actually denies that he was chosen to voice Chucky because of Robot Chicken as he claimed to not even remember voicing Chucky.
- Colleen O'Shaughnessey, the current voice of Tails in Sonic the Hedgehog, reprises the role in the live-action films. In the first film, she was initially uncredited in the theatrical version to prevent spoilers, but is credited in the home video release.
- Albert Dieudonné's most famous role was Napoleon Bonaparte in Abel Gance's 1927 movie, where he played Napoleon as a young man under the Revolution. In 1941, he reprised his role for Madame Sans-Gêne, set during the First Empire (save for a brief flashback under the Terror).
- Biloxi Blues has Matthew Broderick as Eugene, Penelope Ann Miller as Daisy and Matt Mulhern as Joseph in their same roles from the original stage play.
- Nigel Hawthorne reprised his role from the play The Madness of George III in its film adaptation The Madness of King George. In fact, his desire to do so actually led to him taking the role of Raymond Cocteau in Demolition Man just so he could prove he had screen presence — which he didn't need to, anyway, as the crew for The Madness of King George already wanted him to come back (and could've avoided a headache given Hawthorne admitted to hating working with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, going as far as to call Stallone "arrogant" and "rude").
- A film and TV example: Yu In-chon played Yeonsan-gun of Joseon in the 1988 film The Diary of King Yeonsan. Eight years later he played Yeonsan-gun again in the series Im Kkeokjeong.
- For Kaamelott: Premier Volet, Alexandre Astier and most of the main cast of the series and then some came back ten years after the end of the latter.
- Haruka Fukuhara portrays Tsubame Koyasu in the second movie adaptation of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, having also been the voice of the character in the anime.
- Philippe Noiret played early 18th century French Regent Philippe d'Orléans in two unrelated films, Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) and On Guard (1997).
- After starring in 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gérard Depardieu reprised the role of Christopher Columbus in the comedy movie Alad'2 for a quick gag when Aladin and the genie are lost in the Americas thanks to the latter's Teleportation Misfires.
- In the 1972 adaptation of Ruslan and Ludmila, Prince Vladimir was played by Andrei Abrikosov, same actor who played him in Ilya Muromets 16 years earlier.
- The Railway Children Return stars Jenny Agutter as Bobbie Waterbury, reprising the role from The Railway Children after 52 years.
- Flora Robson played Queen Elizabeth I in Fire Over England (1937) and then reprised the role in an unconnected film from a different studio: The Sea Hawk (1940).
- The 1978 film The Black Bird is a sequel to The Maltese Falcon (1941) starring George Segal as Sam Spade's son. Lee Patrick and Elisha Cook Jr. reprise the roles of Effie and Wilmer.
- Scream is a rare horror film series with a consistent main cast and plotline, as it never indulges in continuity reboots or remakes. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Roger L. Jackson are seen (or heard, in the case of Jackson) in the five films released between 1996 and 2022, which includes a 11-year gap between Scream 3 and Scream 4 and another 11-year gap between the latter and Scream (2022).
- Terminator:
- After originating the role of the T-800 in the original film (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger reprised the role in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Genisys (2015) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). The only reason Arnie didn't return for Terminator Salvation (2009) was because he was serving as the Governor of California, but he did approve for his likeness to be used for the CGI T-800.
- Linda Hamilton also reprised the role of Sarah Connor in the second film. She initially refused to do any more sequels after Judgment Day, but the producers eventually managed to convince her to return in Dark Fate, marking her first appearance in the series after 28 years.
- Earl Boen played Dr. Silberman in each of the first three films.
- Doctor... Series:
- After missing Doctor in Love, Dirk Bogarde returns to the role of Dr. Sparrow in Doctor in Distress (1963), six years after Doctor at Large.
- After missing In Distress and playing a different character in Doctor in Clover, Leslie Phillips returns to his original role of Dr. Burke in Doctor in Trouble.
- The Exorcist:
- The Exorcist III has Jason Miller return as Father Karras 17 years after the first film.
- The Exorcist: Believer has Ellen Burstyn return as Chris MacNeil 50 years after the original and Linda Blair return as Regan 46 years after Exorcist II: The Heretic.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Orlando Bloom (Will Turner), Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann), Martin Klebba (Marty), Giles New (Murtogg), and Angus Barnett (Mullroy) all return ten years after Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
- Ghostbusters:
- In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, all members of the original Ghostbusters (minus the late Harold Ramis, of course) from the first two films reprise their roles, as do Sigourney Weaver (Dana Barrett) and Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz). The only major actor to not reprise his role from the original film was Rick Moranis (Louis Tully), who has been mostly retired.
- In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, William Atherton reprises his role of Walter Peck from the first film.
- In Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson return as, respectively, Rictus Erectus and the Organic Mechanic from Mad Max: Fury Road.
- In My Führer, Katja Riemann reprised the role of Adolf Hitler's girlfriend Eva Braun after Goebbels and Geduldig, and Ulrich Noethen played Heinrich Himmler once again after Downfall.
- In the Latin American Spanish dub of Knights of the Zodiac, Carlo Vázquez, María Fernanda Morales and Marcos Patiño reprise their roles as Seiya, Sienna and Ikki/Nero from both the Saint Seiya anime adaptations and, in Vazquez' case, from Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac's second season.
