Actresses Whose Roles Are Nothing Like Who They Really Are

#1. Carrie Fisher

In real life: When she first started out, under the influence and under contract, fans believed Carrie Fisher to be a lot Princess Leia. We've come to learn she's an outspoken and fierce woman who is funny as hell, not exactly far afield from Princess Leia but with added grit and realness. Fisher's books, including memoir Wishful Drinking, and body of work are proof.

In film and TV roles: As Princess Leia, Fisher is a sci-fi icon. The actor has a complex relationship with her Star Wars character and was rightfully prickly about being asked to drop 40 pounds to play General Leia in The Force Awakens. After all of this time, diehard fans appreciate that Leia and Fisher have melded to some extent.

Notable quote: "There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'"

#2. Jennifer Lawrence

In real life: Jennifer Lawrence's non-fake persona has gotten just as much attention as her roles. She's not interested in pretending to be packaged and polished and she's open about who she is and how she sees the world.

In film and TV roles: Lawrence has played a wide range of characters, though some of her most well-known roles, such as those in Winter's Bone and The Hunger Games, have the actress playing relatively reserved, quiet characters. Writer/director David O Russell has given her the opportunity to play characters closer to her fiery self in Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and Joy.

Notable quote: "As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."

#3. Tina Fey

In real life: Tina Fey is deadly serious about her responsibilities. She wrote a piece in The New Yorker about agonizing over the possibility of having a second child, once again revealed she's not just funny tuba parts and zingers. Fey wrote:

When my daughter says, "I wish I had a baby sister," I am stricken with guilt and panic... I thought raising an only child would be the norm in New York, but I'm pretty sure my daughter is the only child in her class without a sibling. All over Manhattan, large families have become a status symbol. Four beautiful children named after kings and pieces of fruit are a way of saying, "I can afford a four-bedroom apartment and a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in elementary-school tuition fees each year.

In film and TV roles: Fey makes comedy look easy. Seamless even. It may look like a breeze, but Fey is like a duck, placid on the surface, paddling furiously beneath the water.

Notable quote: "Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great."

#4. Lisa Kudrow

In real life: Lisa Kudrow is very intelligent, and is a master of the mechanics of comedy. She has a degree in biology from Vassar, but she's so good at what she does, she can fully convince audiences she's an air head, space cadet, hippie, or moron.

In film and TV roles: Kudrow played her own brand of weird on Friends. She was clueless on Web Therapy and an addicted, emotional wreck on Unbreakably Kimmy Schmidt. She went full absurd for The Comeback, a show business satire she co-created, which earned strong reviews and a cult following for its brutal take on celebrity culture. She's also had ample opportunity to be a great, serious actor, in small roles such as those in Bandslam, PS I Love You, and Easy A.

Notable quote: "I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person."

#5. Chloë Grace Moretz

In real life: Chloe Grace Moretz once told MTV she's not interested in playing normal characters.

"I have quite a normal family [laughs] and I'm kind of bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit and I choose the kind of messed-up characters 'cause I find that that's acting it's doing things and exploring emotions you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore."

In film and TV roles: She can say that again. Moretz's first role, as Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass, is about as far from boring as an actor can get. Sure, she's had her If I Stay kind of roles, but she's definitely tried to stay on the other side of normal.

Notable quote: "I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference."

#6. Eliza Taylor

In real life: Australian actress Eliza Taylor admits she's not outdoorsy or much of a survivalist, but she appreciates the locations of her show The 100. "It's amazing. I love it. What other job do you get to come out into beautiful snow capped mountains? It's made acting really easy." Taylor entertained her 100 castmates every weekend for Sunday Classic, a big sit-down meal she prepares.

In film and TV roles: Taylor's character on The 100, Clarke Griffin, is caught between the Ark, a spacecraft carrying the descendants of survivors of Earth, and the juvenile delinquents who are sent to see whether the planet is inhabitable again. Clarke is capable in the wild and has medical skills to boot. Taylor, not so much.

Notable quote: "I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study Lord of the Flies."

#7. Maisie Williams

In real life: Maisie Williams is both lighthearted and serious. She loves a good laugh but takes her career seriously. Like her Game of Thrones character Arya Stark, Williams doesn't take BS, but she uses Twitter to take people down, not Needle.

In film and TV roles: William showed audiences she's more than Arya Stark with her work on Doctor Who and the film The Falling. Still, she holds Arya near and dear. As for her acting career, she's all about letting it happen a certain way. "It needs to happen organically," she explained to Deadline. "Everything that's happened in my career so far has happened really organically... when the time is right, I know I'll be able, as an actor, to create a new character and have the confidence to do that."

Notable quote: "I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped."