Actors on “The Office” with Same First Names as Their Characters
by Miles-10 | created - 01 Dec 2017 | updated - 01 Dec 2017 | Public
1. Creed Bratton
Actor | The Office
Creed Bratton's talent for acting and music began at a young age. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up in the small town of Coarsegold near Yosemite, California. He attended the College of the Sequoias and Sacramento State College as a drama major. He began playing the guitar professionally as a ...
The only actor on "The Office" who has exactly the same name as his character, and why not? Creed Bratton is a scary character, and Creed Bratton is a scary name.
2. Angela Kinsey
Actress | The Office
Angela is an American actress. She was born in Louisiana, but raised from the age of 2 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her father was working as a drilling engineer. During her time there, she attended the Jakarta International English School and learned to speak Indonesian. When she was age 14, her family ...
The actress named Angela in real life is the uptight Angela Martin on "The Office". Such an imaginative show somehow created two characters with similar surnames: Angela Martin and Oscar Martinez (see below).
3. Oscar Nuñez
Actor | The Proposal
Oscar Nuñez was born on November 18, 1958 in Cuba. He is an actor and writer, known for The Proposal (2009), The Office (2005) and Baywatch (2017). He has been married to Ursula Whittaker since May 21, 2011. They have one child. He was previously married to Carla.
Oscar Martinez was originally not supposed to be gay, but the writers wanted to do a story about the inappropriate boss, Michael Scott, trying to find out if anyone in the office was gay. Oscar was chosen to be the scapegoat.
4. Phyllis Smith
Actress | Inside Out
Phyllis Smith is an American actress from Missouri who is known for playing Phyllis Vance from The Office and Sadness from Inside Out. She also acted in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The OA. She also works for the casting department of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spin ...
Originally part of the team that cast "The Office", Phyllis read lines with prospective actors and her renderings were thought so good that the character Phyllis Lapin was created for her. Whether it has any significance or not, "lapin" is the French word for "rabbit". Phyllis, the character, changed her name to Phyllis Vance when she married Bob Vance (see below).
5. Robert R. Shafer
Actor | Dick Dickster
Robert Ray Shafer Jr. was born in Charleston, West Virginia, in April, 1958. His father was a heavy equipment operator and his mother a housewife. As a child he also lived in Bowie, Maryland, and graduated from high school in Romeo, Michigan, in 1976. After attending Broward College in Ft. ...
A businessman who had an office in the same building as Dunder Mifflin's Scranton Branch, Bob Vance married Phyllis. "Bob" is a common name, and Shafer officially goes by "Robert", but it is worth noting that the actor was originally credited as Bobby Ray Shafer.
6. Calvin Tenner
Actor | The Office
Calvin Tenner is known for The Office (2005), Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018) and Bodied (2017).
He didn't seem to have a last name, but for a while, Calvin Tenner played a character named Calvin. Then, in season eight, he suddenly turned up as the character Glenn (still no last name) and remained Glenn for the final two seasons.
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