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LIVE POLL: Intriguing Multiple Personality Characters
Multiple personality driven stories and characters often result in fantastic movies and interesting TV series. Sometimes, the creative story lines of how a character acquired their particular set of multiple personalities is even more intriguing than the multiple personalities themselves. In addition, characters with multiple personalities are a juicy opportunity to demonstrate an actors' or actresses' range of acting talent.
Which movie or television character with literal or figurative multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing?
Spoiler Alert: Character identities as MPD could reveal movie or TV series plot twists.
Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/TlBfUEFYuNs/
See the partial list of movie and television split personality characters here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls033246020/
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Intriguing Movie and TV Split Personality Characters
Movies and TV series with multiple personality driven stories often have interesting plot twists. Equally intriguing is how each character acquired their particular set of personalities. More often than not, it is a clinical condition known as dissociative identity disorder. Regardless of the cause, it is a juicy opportunity for an actor or actress to demonstrate their range of acting talent.
Which movie or television character portrayal with literal or figurative multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing?
See the partial list of movie and television split personality characters here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls047738602/
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Aaron should not be on this list, as his "other" personality was all an act and not due to mental illness.
Patrick Bateman did not have more than one personality. Just one crazy one who killed because he liked it, not a whole separate personality. A double life is not the same as a dual personality. Same with Regina Mills and Francis Dolarhyde.
I have both seen the film and read of the book of Shutter Island and it was DiCaprio's character who had DID.
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Robert Elliott - Dressed to Kill
Bae Soo-Mi - A Tale of Two Sisters/Anna - The Uninvited (Uninvited is the American remake of Sisters)
I don't know who (haven't seen it) - Frailty
Alma - Persona
Stanley Ipkiss - The Mask
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I thought this would be covered withing the scope of the question: Which movie or television character with literal or figurative multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing?
Thanks, I have seen all these movies plus the ones you suggested. I was fuzzy on the details from Shutter Island and American Psycho, plus the plot summaries were no help. I can understand the weaknesses of the characters you have pointed out. I have removed Patrick Bateman, as a result. Regina Millls and Francis Dolorhyde are both listed on their wikias and wikipedia as multiple personality characters. I added in Bae-S00-Mi, Stanley Ipkiss and Fenton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_characters_with_multiple_personalities
http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Francis_Dolarhyde
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Regina_Mills
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PS: Intriguing Multiple Personality Characters
Multiple personality driven stories and characters often result in fantastic movies and interesting TV series. Sometimes, the creative story lines of how a character acquired their particular set of multiple personalities is even more intriguing than the multiple personalities themselves. In addition, characters with multiple personalities are a juicy opportunity to demonstrate an actors' or actresses' range of acting talent.
Which movie or television character with literal or figurative multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing?
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Sadly, IMDb will not support character based polls after December 5, 2017. Please recreate this poll as an image based poll if you wish for your polls suggestion to still be considered.
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Multiple personality driven stories and characters often result in fantastic movies and interesting TV series
Posted 9 months ago (March 4 2017)
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"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Alternate (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015431/
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Original Air Date: 25 September 2007 (Season 9, Episode 1)
Cynthia Nixon ... Janis Donovan (No Character page)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015431/plotsummary
Cynthia Nixon turns in a powerful performance
as a woman with multiple personalities
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015431/reviews
Nixon's The One As SVU's Prize Pest
Author: Michael Daly
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0381820/
This episode brings out the inadvertent humor that adds charm to the series
as Nixon dons several guises,
first as a lawyer reporting a child is being abused,
then as a waif holed up in Central Park,
then as a bitchy broad who tells off her own lawyer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1015431/quotes
Dr. George Huang: Tell me about her alters.
Detective Olivia Benson: So far we've seen Dr. Young, a little girl, and a mean Russian.
Det. Elliot Stabler: And I bet she does a great Christopher Walken too.
Hashi Horowitz: She has five documented personalities.
Judge Walter Bradley: Should we swear them all in separately?
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Most Popular Titles With Plot Matching "Multiple Personality" - 125 titles
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Most Popular Titles With Plot Matching "dissociative identity disorder" - 35 titles.
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Intriguing Movie and TV Split Personality Characters
Movies and TV series with multiple personality driven stories often have interesting plot twists. Equally intriguing is how each character acquired their particular set of personalities. More often than not, it is a clinical condition known as dissociative identity disorder. Regardless of the cause, it is a juicy opportunity for an actor or actress to demonstrate their range of acting talent.
Which movie or television character portrayal with literal or figurative multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing?
See the partial list of movie and television split personality characters here: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls047738602/
HONORABLE MENTIONS (mostly non-DID splits, remakes and character duplications)
Boris Karloff Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
John Malkovich Mary Reilly Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Paul Massie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
John Barrymore Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
Fredric March Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
The Incredible Hulk Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk
Eric Bana Hulk Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk
Eddie Murphy The Nutty Professor Sherman Klump / Buddy Love
Vince Vaughn Psycho Norman Bates / Mother
Rebecca De Mornay Never Talk to Strangers Dr. Sarah Taylor
Soo-jung Lim, Geun-young Moon A Tale of Two Sisters Soo-mi Bae / Soo-yeon Bae / Eun-joo Bae
Edward Norton Primal Fear Aaron / Roy
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis Black Swan
Nina Sayers (The Swan Queen) / Lily's doppelgänger (The Black Swan) * may be paranoid schizophrenia, rather than dissociative identity disorder
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More Honorable Mentions
Linda Hamilton Separate Lives Lauren Porter / Lena
Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis Tully Marlo Moreau / Tully* character may have Postpartum Psychosis rather than Dissociative Identity Disorder
15 Split Personality Movies That Went to the Big Screen (Together)
Top 10 Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Movies
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Which movie* character portrayal with split multiple personalities is the most multi-facetedly intriguing? *theatrical, television or streaming
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Tom Stall / Joey Cusack (#10) doesn't have any pathology that in any way is close to dissociative identity disorder. He just changed his name when he moved far away to escape a violent past and the dangerous mob figures with whom he had been involved.
Mr. Brooks (#7) also doesn't have dissociative identity disorder, although he's much more pathological than Tom Stall in many ways. Marshall is not another personality coexisting with Mr.Brooks as much as the personification of Mr. Brooks' violent side (perhaps like Dexter's "dark passenger" or Walter White's "Heisenberg") or perhaps even the personification of voices if he suffers from some kind of psychosis. The film doesn't make it clear except that few of the typical symptoms and characteristics of what used to be known as multiple personality disorder is there with Mr. Brooks -- or perhaps the filmmaker confuses D.I.D. with some psychotic illness such as schizophrenia and presents features of both. Although he fits way more than Tom Stall, Mr. Brooks is not a clear-cut case like 'Split' and some of the other characters and movies on the list.
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FYC: Tara Gregson/T/Alice/Buck/Gimme/Shoshana/Chicken/Bryce from United States of Tara
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