Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27819070-20170310212639/@comment-28398720-20170315005516

Dragonfly82 wrote: Because according to many actors and actresses if you stay too long on one franchise you will now and forever more or else known for that. Like Brent Spiner has done massive amount of other things. But many only knows him as Data from Star Trek.

Same thing with Ed O'neill ('Married... with Children' and now 'Modern Family'), I saw him once playing as detective but I couldn't take him seriously.