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  2. List of Extras characters - Wikipedia

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    Ricky Gervais (pictured in 2010) played the lead, a down-on-his-luck actor. Portrayed by Ricky Gervais, Andrew "Andy" Millman is the lead character of Extras.Andy's dream to become an actor – he left his steady day job at NatWest in Wokingham in order to pursue it – is endlessly thwarted by the fact that his agent Darren Lamb is incompetent, circumstances seem to conspire against him, and ...

  3. Extras (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Extras made the Top 10 list of Outstanding Comedy Series but was not nominated in the Top 5. In 2008, the finale earned five nominations at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, and the special was nominated for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. Gervais was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, and Jensen received her ...

  4. List of Extras episodes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of episodes from the BBC television series Extras. In total, there are thirteen episodes and two series of Extras (six in each series and one 90-minute Christmas special). Extras was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant; they also directed and starred in this series.

  5. Extras (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Extras: Aya considers herself earlier in the novel as an Extra, someone with a low face rank, no popularity, etc. Eden Maru later explains to her the concept of film extras from the Rusties' era, which is the true origin of this term. The word eventually gains new meaning as being an abbreviation of "extraterrestrial".

  6. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...

  7. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...

  8. List of Scooby-Doo characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Scooby-Doo characters. Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise based around several animated television series and animated films, as well as live action movies. There are five main characters in the franchise: Scooby-Doo , Norville "Shaggy" Rogers , Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , and Velma Dinkley —known as "Mystery ...

  9. List of The Simpsons characters - Wikipedia

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    Some of the many recurring and regular characters in The Simpsons. Along with the Simpson family, The Simpsons includes a large array of characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, local celebrities. The creators originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokesters or for fulfilling needed ...