12 Actors Who Have Basically Just Become Cartoon Characters

5. Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons is another Oscar winner like Ben Kingsley who crops up unexpectedly in a number of films for the money; he's unashamedly admitted as much. Whatever his part, he will play it with melodramatic excess which is in direct proportion to the film's quality, i.e. if it's bad, Irons will be matching every awful line he's forced to say with some of the most overzealous acting ever committed to the screen. He's earned himself a reputation for sinister villains in the process, so he's essentially a cartoon character for hire. Of course, Irons is the most famous animated villain of them all, Scar, but he's also matched Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber for villainous moustache-twirling in Die Hard with a Vengeance and played the infamous Pope Alexander VI in TV's The Borgias. However, the video below is from his performance in the awful 2000 Dungeons & Dragons film, in which even his facial expressions are ridiculously evil. Someone's compiled over 15 minutes of his best moments, but watch the first 60 seconds and you'll be convinced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4w__Vqdjg