Actor: Brian Cox

Brian Cox played Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter, five years before Anthony Hopkins, and constructed the character on the basis of clinical detachment instead of theatrical menace.

He worked constantly for decades in supporting parts, in Rob Roy, Braveheart, The Bourne Identity and X2, while maintaining a substantial Royal Shakespeare Company career.

Succession gave him Logan Roy at seventy-two and made him globally famous, and his memoir is notably candid about colleagues.