# Plex confusing actor with the same name **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270 "2020-07-28T23:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Antosz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@Antosz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Antosz)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/1 "2020-07-28T23:04:48Z")
Hi, I’ve some movies in my library with two actors with the same name “Akshay Kumar”. 1. Akshay Kumar ( [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474774/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474774/) ) 2. Akshay Kumar ( [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4289673/](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4289673/) ) For Plex they are considered the same actor. Every time I update the metadata of a movie with one of the two, all the movies of both are assigned to the last one that was uploaded. Plex can’t detect that they are different actors, although the angles take the data from sources (imdb and tmdb) in which these actors are quite distinct Any Suggestions to how fix this? ---
**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/2 "2020-07-28T23:29:16Z")
Which agent are you using for your Movie library ---
**Author:** ![Antosz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@Antosz](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Antosz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/3 "2020-07-29T06:44:52Z")
Tmdb Agent… I checked on the website and in their Sistems the actors are different. ---
**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/4 "2020-07-29T06:54:45Z")
Everything…: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/9/6/96a951fc96236d70ff618617a0e84c45150b5d43.jpeg) Earl Brown Search returns W. Earl Brown and Earl Brown in Deadwood is in the ethereal plane between life/death and Plex… and he lost the top part of his head in a horrible farming accident… like thousands of other Actors who met Plex’s Head Chopper 9000. ---
**Author:** ![nydave69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/fbc32d/32.png) [@nydave69](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nydave69)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/5 "2020-07-29T13:24:36Z")
There are quite a few like that we found over the years… Plex only stores the URL for an actor by name once, If that name is used in different movies/shows it pulls the same picture. So if you change that picture somewhere it then shows up everywhere. Plex needs to better identify actors as other database managers do. ---
**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/6 "2020-07-29T19:19:04Z")
yeah this seems to be an issue from how PMS is storing actor data, not any particular agent issue. I’ve made a report for it to be looked into ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-actor-with-the-same-name/618270/7 "2020-10-27T19:19:10Z")
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