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 The idea of selecting a person as a role is, for example, in a documentary, where the person doesn't actually play a certain role, but appears as the real-life self. The OFDb the role will simplay state "self" next to the actor, instead of a character. The idea of selecting a person as a role is, for example, in a documentary, where the person doesn't actually play a certain role, but appears as the real-life self. The OFDb the role will simplay state "self" next to the actor, instead of a character.
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 +===== Adding an existing person =====
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 +If a character in a movie is a real-life, existing person (alive or passed away), that "character" is not created as a //Character// content type, but as a //Person// content type instead.
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 +===== Adding a fictionalised person =====
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 +Sometimes, a real-life person appears as a fictionalised version of him-/herself in a movie or TV show. If that is the case, we don't reference the the person as a character (as if in [[#adding-an-existing-person|an existing person]]), but we add the person as a character as in credited in the end credits (text input or referenced).
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 +===== Examples =====
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 +  * [[https://ofdb.cc/movie/8f50d5fb-0cd7-4f00-be66-73bd2cbb57eb|Ahsoka Tano]]: As a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, Ahsoka Tano is a //Character// content type and referenced accordingly in the TV show [[https://ofdb.cc/tv-show/ad9744ec-bc45-4d99-8962-28762dfade3f|Ahsoka]].
 +  * Playing a fictionalised version of himself, [[https://ofdb.cc/person/9f012fda-b04b-44cf-82e5-59dd739b0ecb|Woody Harrelson]] is credited as "Woody" (and not himself as an actual person) in the movie [[https://ofdb.cc/movie/f60f36a3-71be-4d41-a825-f843056dd6ff|Lost in London]].
 +  * [[https://ofdb.cc/person/3f8ce810-27cf-4c45-8d2b-36e0ff5a5b47|Nelson Mandela]]: As a historical person, Nelson Mandela is created as a //Person// content type, and the movie [[https://ofdb.cc/movie/c1f0b9df-1c9c-4a10-a8cc-b981e34f2798|Invictus]] references the //person// in the character field, played by [[https://ofdb.cc/movie/c1f0b9df-1c9c-4a10-a8cc-b981e34f2798|Morgan Freeman]]
 +  * [[https://ofdb.cc/movie/63aa0d04-efd8-4860-b655-06e44a583a38|Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry]]: As a documentary about Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei is both referenced as a person and a character. Both fields reference the identical content, created as a //Person//.
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