10 Actors Who Played Iconic Roles We Don’t Know By Face

The film industry is a rather complex industry, most people enjoy watching films every day, but few people think about how directors choose actors, how the actors themselves compete for the right to take part in a film.

Often in films, the viewer can see a character with a very unusual appearance that has little to do with human appearance, the viewer does not even think that some actor had to embody this creature on the screen.

In our article, you can find a list of ten actors who managed to play iconic roles, but at the same time remain unrecognized by fans.

10 Billy Crudup (Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen)

Doctor Manhattan is a fictional character from the Watchmen comics. According to the plot of the comics, the hero has the following superpowers: levitation, invulnerability, teleportation, foresight, and some others.

On the screen, this character was embodied by actor Billy Crudup, whom the viewer may also know from his roles in such films as Beauty in English, Big Fish, Mission Impossible -3.

Playing the role of Dr. Manhattan or John Osterman was not an easy task for the actor, as the character bears little resemblance to an ordinary person. When filming the movie, the directors used motion capture technology.

9. Kevin Peter Hall (first Predator)

The American actor has had to play the role of monsters in films more than once. The most famous are the films “Predator”, “Caution”, “Harry and the Hendersons” and “Predator 2”.

Interestingly, film directors were very fond of inviting the actor to play the roles of various interesting characters due to the fact that he was incredibly tall, his height was 220 cm.

During filming, Kevin Hall had to be in a stuffy alien character costume almost constantly, only the helmet was easily removed, this allowed the actor to take a breath of fresh air.

8. Christian Godlewski (Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy)

Few people have not watched the film “Guardians of the Galaxy”, based on the comics of the Marvel universe. Many viewers remembered Groot – an unusual humanoid, outwardly similar to a tree, but with high intelligence.

The character has superpowers, such as eating wood to grow, can control trees, and is not afraid of fire.

Able to pronounce only one phrase in human language: “I am Groot!” – it means anything.

On the television screen, the role of an alien was embodied by actor Christian Godolevsky using motion capture technology.

7. Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars)

Jar Jar Binks is a fictional character in the second part of the Star Wars film.

This alien has a kind, slightly naive disposition. It has an unusual appearance, slightly similar to a platypus, very clumsy. On the screen, the image of a funny hero was embodied by an actor named Ahmed Best. The film was also filmed using motion capture technology, the character received the voice acting of the actor.

Unfortunately, this role did not bring fame to Ahmed Best, the fans of the film hated the actor who played the role of a comical and not fitting into the plot of the film, in their opinion, Jar Jar and pursued him and his family for a long time.

6. Nick Castle (Michael Myers from Halloween)

Michael Myers is known to the audience as a negative character in the film “Halloween”, filmed in 1978. The idea of ​​​​creating this movie character belonged to Debra Hill and John Carpenter.

In addition to films, the maniac-killer was also mentioned in literature, video games and comics. On the screen, his image was able to embody the American actor Nick Castle.

5. Maiwenn Le Besco (Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element)

Diva Plavalaguna, invented by the director of the film “The Fifth Element”, an opera singer. She is an undercover agent and is responsible for delivering the items.

The name for the fictional character was invented by the director of the film, Luc Besson. As a child, he often rested in a place with the same name, it is translated from Croatian as “blue lagoon”.

The opera diva’s dress was designed by a French fashion designer. And the singer herself on the TV screen was embodied by the actress Mayvenn Le Besco. The aria was performed behind-the-scenes by Inva Mula (famous opera singer).

Outwardly, the alien diva slightly resembles an earthly woman, but is tall, blue-skinned and has sprouts on her head.

4. Douglas Bradley (Pinhead from Hellraiser)

Pinhead is the villain of the Hellraiser movie. The character was created by Clive Barker in 1987.

Pinhead, according to the plot of the film, belongs to the cenobites, that is, people reborn into demons and always wanting to do evil. The real name of the fictional character is Elliot Spencer. He went to hell with the help of Lemarchand’s box and reincarnated into a terrible creature.

His head is studded with needles, his skin is pale with cuts, and there is a hook in his stomach. Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, he is the only one of them left with glimpses of human consciousness and a sense of justice.

On the screen, the image of the monster was embodied by the English actor Douglas Bradley, he did this at the request of his friend and classmate, Clive Barker, when he decided to make a film based on his work.

3. Richard Break (King of the Night from Game of Thrones)

Fans of “Game of Thrones” know that the King of the Night is the main negative character of the series, he is the embodiment of evil in the film, the leader of the terrible army of white walkers.

Unlike his warriors, the king even looks imposing, as he is dressed in armor, there are processes on his head that look like an imitation of a crown.

Also, the king of the white walkers has a superpower, he can resurrect dead people and animals to make his army even bigger.

The role of the King of the Night went to a British-American actor named Richard Break, whom the viewer can also remember from such films as Water for Elephants!, Thor 2: The Kingdom of Darkness.

2. Anthony Daniels (C-3PO from Star Wars)

C-3PO is a fictional character from the Star Wars film, and is a droid who provides etiquette and translation advice.

This character appears in eight parts of the film. On the TV screen, his image was embodied by the British actor Anthony Daniels.

1. Doug Jones (Amphibian Man from The Shape of Water)

Amphibian Man is the hero of the film “The Shape of Water”. According to the plot of the film, he was fished out of the waters of the Amazon, people began to try to establish contact with him, but after failure, one of the colonels of the military laboratory beats him up, to which the amphibian responds with aggression.

Further, the hero of the film is decided to be subjected to vivisection, but Eliza, the mute cleaner of this laboratory, decides to help the unfortunate creature, save him by releasing him into the ocean. During further ups and downs between the amphibian and man, feelings arise, Eliza gains the ability to breathe underwater.

An actor named Doug Jones managed to brilliantly play the role of an amphibian. Due to his appearance, he was often involved in science fiction, fantasy and horror films, he skillfully transforms into various non-human beings.