17 Costar Duos Who’ve Worked Together Multiple Times

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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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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.

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In addition to co-starring in Empire, Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson have appeared in four films together:

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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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