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Have you ever had such an amazing colleague that you wished you could take them to every new job in the future?
It’s a lot easier to reunite with your old colleagues when you’re both in entertainment—and maybe even work with them on and off.
Here are 17 co-star couples who have collaborated multiple times:
1.
Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder have appeared in four films together:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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A scanner in the dark
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The personal life of Pippa Lee
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and destination weddings.
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2.
Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson have starred in a whopping 12 films together:
Zoolander and Zoolander 2
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Starsky & Hutch
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Nights at the Museum, Nights at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Nights at the Museum: Mystery of the Tomb
The cable guy
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Meet the parents, meet the fockers and the little fockers
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and The Royal Tenenbaums.
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3.
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell starred in the series All That and Kenan & Kel. They also appeared in three films together:
good burger
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
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and two heads are better than none.
4.
Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who are married, have shared the screen in eight films:
ham ham
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Vicky Christina Barcelona
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Everyone knows
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living flesh
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and three films in which Bardem made only a cameo appearance – Not Love Just Frenzy, Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health, and Don’t Tempt Me.
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5.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo played love interests in View From the Top and Thanks for Sharing.
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As part of the MCU, they have appeared in five other films together – The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.
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6.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have acted in four films together:
You have mail
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Sleepless in Seattle
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Joe vs the volcano
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and Ithaca.
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Ryan also starred in My Mom’s New Boyfriend with Hanks’ son Colin.
7.
Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne shared the screen three times:
guys in the area
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What does love have to do with it
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and Akeelah and the Bee.
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8th.
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have fallen in love on screen three times:
The Wedding Singer
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50 first dates
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and mixed.
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9.
Aside from their starring roles in the Peaky Blinders series, Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy have appeared together in three films, all directed by Christopher Nolan:
beginning
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and Dunkirk.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, who are married, have appeared in four films together:
when you are in rome
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Crisps
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hit and run
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and the film adaptation of Veronica Mars (Shepard had a brief cameo appearance).
He also had a guest appearance on an episode of Bell’s show The Good Place.
11.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have collaborated on eight projects:
Shaun of the Dead
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The end of the world
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hot fuzz
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Paul
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Cuban Rage
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and they have spoken for two films, The Adventures of Tintin and The Boxtrolls.
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12.
Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell have been on three TV shows together – Prison Break, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.
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They also shared the screen in two films – Prison Break: The Final Break and Blood Creek (Miller had an uncredited cameo).
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13.
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman starred in five films:
The Separation
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The desk
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Christmas party in the office
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and Terrible Bosses and Terrible Bosses 2.
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14
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly shared the screen four times:
stepbrothers
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad by Ricky Bobby
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and Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie.
fifteen.
In addition to co-starring in Empire, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson have appeared in four films together:
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EMPIRE (from left): Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard, “One Before Another” (Season 3, Episode 305, aired November 9, 2016). Photo: Jean Whiteside / © Fox / Courtesy of the Everett Collection
Four brothers
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duration
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and Animal (2005).
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Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans have appeared in two non-MCU films together – The Nanny Diaries and The Perfect Score.
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Within the MCU, they have split the screen seven times – The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Captain Marvel (mid-credits scene), Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: endgame.
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And finally, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, who are married, have appeared in six films together:
I know what you did last summer and I still know what you did last summer
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Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
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Happy never after
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and She’s All That (Gellar made a brief cameo appearance).
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