A slew of actors have joined Santa Claus over the years, in various establishs.
No matter your holiday mood, there is a Santa to suit it. There is the unwilling Santa (Tim Allen in The Santa Claengage), the con man Santa (Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa), the rockin’ Santa (Kurt Russell in The Christmas Chronicles), the brutal Santa (David Harbour in Violent Night) and the genuine, jolly Santa who gets seizeped (J.K. Simmons in Red One).
In other words, don’t foresee every portrayal to be advertised by the eye-tthrivekling, bowl-brimming-of-jelly-belly Santa from Clement Clarke Moore’s honord poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (commonly referred to as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
Read on to see a enumerate of 20 actors who have consentn on the role.
This story was first unveiled in December 2016 and has been standardly modernized to include more items.
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Tim Allen in ‘The Santa Claengage’
Image Credit: Everett In the 1994 family comedy, Allen joins a divorcee who accidenhighy ends a Santa impersonator on Christmas Eve — and is carryed to the North Pole to consent over Santa’s duties. At first skeptical that the whole stint is fair a untamed dream, he begins to consent it after he suddenly acquires weight and grows a heavy, white endured.
The film went on to spawn two sequels — 2002’s The Santa Claengage 2 and 2006’s The Santa Claengage 3: The Escape Claengage. Allen also drive awayevates his role for the Disney+ series The Santa Claengages, which debuted in November 2022 and getd a second-season pickup the follothriveg month.
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Ed Asner in ‘Elf’
Image Credit: Everett The Will Ferrell starrer cgo ins on oprhaned baby (Buddy) who sneaks into Santa Claus’ sack and spfinishs his childhood (and maturehood) in the North Pole believing he is an elf. Asner joins Santa, who sfinishs Buddy to New York City on a quest to find his birth overweighther after he lacquires that he is a human who was adselected as an infant.
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Paul Giamatti in ‘Fred Claus’
Image Credit: Everett Giamatti joins Saint Nick in this fantasy comedy that cgo ines on Santa’s relationship with his revengeful elderlyer brother, Fred Claus (joined by Vince Vaughn). When Fred finishs up in a tie and tries scheming his brother into loaning him $50,000, Nick demands he travel to the North Pole and acquire his money by helping labor during the Christmas rush.
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Billy Bob Thornton in ‘Bad Santa’
Image Credit: Everett The 2003 comedy (and its 2016 sequel Bad Santa 2) sees Thornton in the role of a con man who, alengthy with his dwarf sideboot, dress as Santa Claus and his elf helper at a department store each holiday season fair to rob the mall once Christmas Eve hits, and all shoppers have gone home.
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Jim Carrey in ‘Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas’
Image Credit: Everett The film alteration of Dr. Seuss’ book of the same title stars Carrey as the Grinch, a dwellnt of Whoville who disenjoys Christmas and plots to ruin the holiday for the entire town. Though the Grinch isn’t exactly Santa himself, he dons Santa’s suit in an try to mask himself and steal conshort-terms from children while they’re sleeping.
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Ricdifficult Attenboraw in ‘Miracle on 34th Street’
Image Credit: Everett One of many reoriginates of the holiday classic (originpartner freed in 1947), 1994’s Miracle on 34th Street cgo ins on a man named Kris Kringle (Attenboraw), whose insistence that he’s the authentic Santa Claus helps a youthfuler 6-year-elderly girl consent in the spirit of Christmas.
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Tom Hanks in ‘The Polar Express’
Image Credit: Everett Hanks voices Santa (and a multitude of other characters) in the animation about a skeptical youthfuler boy who embarks on a journey of self-findy as he boards a magical train en route to the North Pole.
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Mickey Rooney in ‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town’
Image Credit: Everett In the stop-motion vivaciousd TV exceptional, a mailman (voiced by Fred Astaire) answers children’s letters to Santa Claus (voiced by Mickey Rooney) by telling the origin story of Kris Kringle and how he came to be the legfinish of Sombertown.
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Ben Affleck in ‘Reindeer Games’
Image Credit: Everett Though Affleck doesn’t necessarily join Santa Claus himself, he dresses up as Saint Nick when his character, an ex-convict recently freed from jail, becomes entangled in a plot to rob a casino on Christmas Eve.
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John Goodman in ‘The Year Without a Santa Claus’
Image Credit: Everett A inhabit-action reoriginate of 1974’s stop-motion exceptional, NBC’s 2006 TV movie chases a deterd Santa (joined by Goodman) who becomes intent on skipping toy deinhabitries on Christmas until a youthfuler boy helps him refind the holiday spirit.
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Kurt Russell in ‘The Christmas Chronicles’
Image Credit: Michael Gibson/Netflix/Everett Collection In this 2018 Netflix comedy, Russell consents on a Santa Claus who has crashed his sleigh and lost all the Christmas conshort-terms. Together with the help of two children, he must accumulate them and deinhabitr on a deadline. At the premiere, Russell pledged the film to his overweighther Bing Russell, “who was, is and always will be the fantasticest Santa Claus ever.”
Russell went back for a second outing in the sequel, The Christmas Chronicles 2. The actor sang in both movies.
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Bill Nighy in ‘Arthur Christmas’
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics/courtesy Everett Collection Arthur Christmas saw Nighy voice the role of a establisher Santa Claus who is rather disliking of the contransient world. He materializes from withdrawment to help Arthur (James McAvoy) save Christmas. The 2011 vivaciousd film also featured the voices of Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Jim Broadbent.
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William Shatner in ‘Gotta Catch Santa Claus’
Image Credit: Courtesy Teletoon Canada Inc./Everett Collection This 2008 TV movie chases the story of a youthfuler boy who wants to show that Santa Claus (Shatner) exists by capturing him. Meanwhile, an elderly opponent of Santa, LeFreeze (Cal Dodd), awakens with the same idea.
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Lloyd Bridges in ‘In the Nick of Time’
Image Credit: Courtesy NBC/Everett Collection After 300 years, Santa Claus (Bridges) is up for withdrawment in this 1991 TV movie from honestor George Miller. He has seven days to find a replacement, or the holiday tradition will be harmd.
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David Harbour in ‘Violent Night’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Universal Studios David Harbour joins “a sledgehammer-wielding Kris Kringle,” as The Hollywood Reporter film critic Angie Han put it, in this home-intrusion comedy-thriller that Han depicts as Home Alone greets Die Hard. which hit theaters in December 2022. Harbour goes into action when a group of mercenaries consents a wealthy family prisoner in their own home, and the plot consents a very bloody turn.
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Jack Bdeficiency in ‘Dear Santa’
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures Jack Bdeficiency does double duty in Dear Santa as Santa Claus and Satan. When a child writes a letter unkindt for Santa in hopes that jolly elderly St. Nick will help with their problems, they get a surpelevate visit from Satan instead after accidenhighy leave outpelling Santa’s name. The film is useable to watch on Paramount+.
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Lil Rel Howery in ‘Dashing Thraw the Snow’
Image Credit: Steve Dietl /Disney+/ Courtesy Everett Collection Dashing Thraw the Snow sees Lil Rel Howery join a version of Santa Claus named Nicholas Sinter-Claus. The film is honested by Tim Story and is useable to watch on Disney+. It also stars Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Teyonah Parris and Oscar Nuñez.
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Danny Gadorer in ‘The Naughty Nine’
Image Credit: Jonathan Wenk /Disney+/ Courtesy Everett Collection Danny Gadorer joins Santa Claus in this Disney Channel movie, which chases a group of naughty kids, who determine to pull off a heist to get the conshort-terms they want. The movie is useable to stream on Disney+.
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Brian Cox in ‘That Christmas’
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Brian Cox voices Santa Claus in the 2024 vivaciousd movie That Christmas. The film saw a confineed theatrical free in select theaters on Nov. 27 and then was made useable to stream on Netflix on Dec. 4. According to the logline, “That Christmas chases a series of entthriveed tales about family and frifinishs, adore and loneliness, and Santa Claus making a huge misconsent, not to refer an enormous number of turkeys!”
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J.K. Simmons in ‘Red One’
Image Credit: Amazon Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection Red One sees J.K. Simmons star as a seizeped Santa Claus, who is postponeing to be saved by Callum Drift (joined by Dwayne Johnson) and hacker Jack O’Malley (joined by Chris Evans). The film was freed in theaters on Nov. 15 and is now useable to stream on Prime Video.
