10 Amazing Actors Yet To Realise Their True Potential

7. Sean Harris

Sean Harris isn't the only great British actor who seems to get typecast as the villain - like Gary Oldman in the 1990s he's appeared in a string of movies and TV series in which he plays the bad guy - no doubt because he does it so effortlessly. Ever since his breakthrough performance as the titular killer in British horror movie Creep, Harris has demonstrated a knack for the unnerving, later appearing as the psychopathic drug dealer Stretch in Harry Brown and more recently in the blockbuster Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, taking on the might of Tom Cruise. As Micheletto Corella in the TV series The Borgias he consolidated his on-screen presence as a character not to be trifled with. Sean Harris is an actor deserving of a much broader reputation than simply as a great villain, as his performance in movies like '71 and more recently Macbeth clearly demonstrate. Playing bad guys certainly pays the bills, but here's hoping he gets the chance to sink his teeth into something with a little more meat in the future.