12 Actors You Probably Forgot Were On Heroes
3. Christopher Eccleston
Who He Played: Claude Rains, Season 1's invisible man.
Where You Know Him From: As the Ninth Doctor on BBC's Doctor Who.
Why You Forgot He Was On Heroes: Like several other actors on this list, Eccleston had been around for quite some time before appearing on the show. Besides his time on Doctor Who, he'd been in a enviable array of television series and films, including acclaimed horror film 28 Days Later, and his career only continued steaming ahead after Heroes.
After only five appearances in the first season, the bearded Claude vanished and was never seen again on the series. Though he was a memorable character in the first season, the passage of time, the abundance of characters introduced over the rest of the series' run and his absence from the show made it easy to forget that it was Eccleston who briefly brought the character to life.