Domhnall Gleeson is one of the most versatile character actors working in film today, a performer equally at home in blockbuster spectacle and intimate literary drama without looking like a different actor in each. He broke through with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010) and followed it with a run that includes Anna Karenina (2012), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2014), and The Revenant (2015). Few actors of his generation have moved as fluidly between prestige art house and studio tentpole without losing footing in either.

On screen, Gleeson operates through an angular, pale-featured intensity that can read as warm or deeply unsettling depending on the material, sometimes within the same performance. His blue eyes and sharp bone structure give him a gaunt, watchful quality that directors have used to great effect in roles pitched at menace as often as vulnerability. He is the son of Brendan Gleeson, and while that lineage invited early comparisons, his body of work has long since made the conversation run in the other direction.