Actors Who Played More Than One Character On Friends And You Didn't Even Notice!

FRIENDS is one of the most famous American sitcoms that started in 1994 and completed its 10 seasons in 2004 and yeah, people still love to watch it. With a series running over for such a long period of time sometimes the minor characters appear more than just once and also for different roles in the same show. Here are some characters that played different minor roles in FRIENDS but you may not have noticed them.

The one with the Birth

One of the frequently appearing characters on FRIENDS was Joey Tribbiani’s agent Estelle who gave him acting gigs and all throughout the show.

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But Estelle seems to have already made her appearance in the first season of the show in the episode ‘The one with the birth’ playing the role of the nurse. 

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Now who knows how she turned out to become an agent from a nurse later in the show.

The one with the Baby on the bus

Another character of the show who made a mark with his unique character was Frank Buffay Jr. who plays the role of Phoebe Buffay’s stepbrother.

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He already made his appearance in the episode ‘The one with the Baby on the Bus’ as a random guy who accidentally drops a condom in Phoebe’s guitar case when she was singing outside Central Perk.

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But we do not see Phoebe remembering him later in the show when she meets him and finds out that he is her brother.

The one with the Cheap wedding dress

When Monica is out to choose her wedding, we see a woman who is the owner of the store whom Rachel informs about Kleinman’s in season 7.

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But we later see her as a random girl at the coffeehouse, Central Perk in season 9 in ‘The one with the Pediatrician’

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She is also seen as a waitress in Central Perk in season 3 in ‘The one where Rachel Quits’.

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Wow! She sure made a good progress from a waitress to the owner of a bridal dress showroom.

The one where Monica gets a roommate

The first episode of the series FRIENDS, shows Rachel rushing into the Coffeehouse in a bridal dress and a few moments later Monica orders Rachel a coffee from a waitress.

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Later in the series in an episode, ‘The one with Frank Jr.’, the same waitress is shown as a masseuse who gives massage to Frank Jr. but there’s no mention in the show about how that happened.

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The one with the stoned guy

In the first season of the show episode ‘The one with the stoned guy’, Phoebe introduces her massage client, Steve to Monica who was hiring a head chef for his new restaurant and Rachel does waitressing for Monica for the meeting. Well, the meeting turned out to be a disaster as Steve was stoned.

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Later we see that Phoebe sets up Rachel for a blind date with the same guy in ‘The one with the blind dates’ to make her date terrible but Rachel does not recognize him.

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The meeting does not seem unforgettable but Rachel, kind of, does not recall him from the incident.

The one with all the candy

In season 7 episode ‘The one with all the candy’ we see people assembling outside Monica’s apartment when she decides to make candies for the neighbors. There is a random character who calls Monica as ‘Candy Lady’ when Chandler asks the neighbors to tell her name.

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Later in season 8 in ‘The one with Ross’ step forward/ The one with the creepy holiday card’ we see Phoebe introducing him to Rachel as her friend Roger.

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The one with the Thanksgiving flashback

In season 5 episode ‘The one with all the Thanksgiving flashback’, Monica tells the story about how because of her Chandler gets a severed toe. When brought to the hospital, we see a guy who carries him to the ward and tells the doctor about his injury.

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The same person is seen in Season 8, ‘The one where Rachel Has a baby’ with his wife in the ward where Ross and Rachel are.

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Well, it seems like the casting directors of FRIENDS did use the extra characters a number of times throughout the show.