7. Hugh Bonneville
He's one of TV's most recognisable icons as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham in
Downton Abbey but don't be surprised if he pops up on the big screen during your next venture to the cinema. He's one of "them" in that he's seemingly everywhere
and nowhere all at the same time, which is actually a compliment, in case you were wondering. Hugh Bonneville proved that a pirate's life is definitely for him when he guest starred as Captain Avery in the 2011 swashbuckling Doctor Who escapade The Curse of the Black Spot and he's no stranger to roles which require him to take on dangerous new worlds. Last year he shared the silver screen with some of Hollywood's finest as second lieutenant Donald Jeffries in
The Monuments Men alongside George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman and Jean Dujardin and this was followed by another big screen jaunt when he joined forces with a different type of Hollywood's finest -
*ahem* - in
Muppets Most Wanted. Bringing it back home, he's most recently been seen on the big screen as Mr Brown in
Paddington, which also starred Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi and another former Doctor Who guest star, Sir Michael Gambon, which brings us nicely onto...