Actor: Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman built a career on playing the reasonable man surrounded by absurdity, which The Office established and Sherlock refined across four series.

The Hobbit gave him Bilbo, and the casting works because the character is meant to be the audience’s ordinary point of entry into a heroic world.

Fargo won him an Emmy nomination for playing a considerably darker version of the same everyman, and Black Panther gave him a Marvel role across two films.