Actor: Paul Bettany

Paul Bettany played Chaucer in A Knight’s Tale, an imaginary friend in A Beautiful Mind and an albino monk in The Da Vinci Code, which is a strange first decade by any measure.

He then spent years as the voice of JARVIS in the Iron Man films before being given a body as Vision, which is an unusual promotion.

Master and Commander is the best of the early work, playing the ship’s surgeon and naturalist opposite Russell Crowe, and the two have a genuine friendship on screen.

WandaVision let him play a sitcom performance inside a grief narrative, and he has directed one film.