How can an actor repeatedly choose to play a certain type of character without getting typecast? Ask Jason Lee. He's made a career of portraying men with rapscallion tendencies like Earl Hickey, the recovering ne'er-do-well he plays opposite Jamie Pressley (left) on NBC's breakout comedy My Name Is Earl. And yet somehow, Lee has made each of his scoundrels unique, generally serving up his seediness with a side order of charm. Here, we review his gallery of wrongdoers, and rate 'em on the official EW.com Sleaze-o-Meter.
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Before ''My Name Is Earl,'' Jason Lee played some memorably sleazy roles -- see him as an evil demon, a girlfriend-stealer, and others



