In the 12 years since his breakout on British telly, his career has been defined by a curious mix of genres, tempos, and formats, seeing him move with ease from playing a smooth-talking soldier with a violent streak to a transatlantic lothario in the Adam Sandler film about a magical cobbler - and rack up a delightfully vast audiobook empire in the process.
Like the great character actors of yesteryear, his charm lies in not just the way he disappears into a role but how he possesses a tremendous lack of vanity along with that ability. There's a breathless wacky energy at play, an ineffable weirdness he sprinkles on each character like the perfect dusting of powdered sugar on a Victoria sponge.
And now, as he racks up three more delightful cinematic turns as a Weird British Man in a single six-month period via Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Abigail, and Cuckoo, it's a good time to take stock.
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