10 actors who played opposite gender roles flawlessly (With Pictures)

9. Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness was one of the greatest English theatre actors, who was transitioned from Shakespearean theatre to Hollywood blockbusters, after the Second World War. He brought to life some of great characters on stage and screen, and had a traditional debonair look of a gentleman. In the 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, he played eight different characters, one of which was that of a woman named Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne. His work was in sharp contrast to his previous or following roles, and was an inspiration to the trend of men playing women, in films like Cloud Atlas.