His Dark Materials: Where You Recognise The Cast From

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.