10 Famous Actors You Won't Recognise In Upcoming Movies

5. Alice Krige - Gretel & Hansel

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Okay, so Alice Krige probably isn't the most recognisable name on this list, but she is a beloved figure from Star Trek screen history and appeared in Thor: The Dark World as Eir, the Asgardian medical woman who examined Jane Foster after she's infected with the Aether.

She's also a long-serving veteran of movie and TV character roles and is a quite wonderfully gifted actress whose work means you'll inevitably recognise her when she pops up in things like Deadwood and NCIS.

You probably WON'T recognise her in the upcoming new take on German folklore fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, though, because she's playing the iconic, gingerbread-house-building monster Holda. We can expect a full transformation for that and when it comes to trying to work out who is under all the make-up, you can come back her...

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