Actor: James Cromwell
James Cromwell was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Babe, playing a farmer with almost no dialogue whose emotional turn is conveyed entirely through a dance.
L.A. Confidential gives him Dudley Smith, a corrupt captain whose avuncular warmth conceals the film’s actual villain, and the reveal works because Cromwell plays the warmth completely straight.
He is a committed animal rights activist, became vegan after Babe, and has been arrested multiple times at protests, including one in his seventies.
