His Dark Materials: Where You Recognise The Cast From
Do you remember him? It’s him from that thing! You know the one, Thomas Jefferson is a rapper!
We all know the feeling. You’re watching a TV show or film, only for some famous face to pop up. It’s him! Him from that thing!
It’s impossible to concentrate on the rest of the show or movie, and it’s worse when you can’t figure how exactly where you know them from. Maybe they’re wearing a strange costume, heavy VFX, or are just look older. Maybe all the pictures of them online don’t look how you thought they would, and it all leaves you even more confused than ever.
Well, fear no more. His Dark Materials enjoyed a successful debut this week, and the show is packed with famous stars, as well as a lot of career character actors that have been in just about everything. Here, both stars and supporting cast get checked off to help you remember where you know them from.
Rather than the last thing they were in a la ‘Where Are They Now?’, this list tackles the biggest projects the cast have starred in previously, to help you remember exactly what that thing you saw them in was.
While we’re on it, episode one was pretty good too, right?
17. Omid Djalili - Dr Lenselius
Look, you’re bound to have seen Omid Djalili somewhere. From the late ‘90s to mid ‘00s, you couldn’t turn on your TV without seeing him in an (often angry) cameo appearance, or else taking up a guest spot on a panel show.
Though his appearances have slowed down recently, he’s racked up more than enough credits to be a hugely recognisable part of the His Dark Materials cast. This includes early work in The Bill, The Mummy, Notting Hill, Gladiator and Bond flick The World Is Not Enough.
While these are all pretty respectable, Djalili has his share of more cult (read: embarrassing) roles too. Mean Machine, Alien Autopsy, The Calcium Kid and Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow might be where you recognise Djalili from instead, though you might want to keep that to yourself.
Quite where Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End falls on that divide is up to you.
More recently, he’s been spotted in Snatch, Lucky Man and Mamma Mia, as well as the ‘talent’ show, Splash.