
Age: 66
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Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor, contortionist, and mime artist. He is best known for performing in character roles, often portraying non-human creatures, usually via heavy make-up and visual effects. He has most notably collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, appearing in the films Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), and The Shape of Water (2017). Jones has also had roles in other films, including Hocus Pocus (1993) and its sequel (2022), Tank Girl (1995), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Absentia (2011), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and The Bye Bye Man (2017). He has appeared in the science fiction series Falling Skies (2013-15) and del Toro's horror series The Strain (2014-16). From 2017 to 2024, he portrayed Saru in the science fiction series Star Trek: Discovery. From 2019 to 2023, he portrayed Baron Afanas in the vampire comedy show What We Do in the Shadows, appearing both with and without creature makeup. Description above from the Wikipedia article Doug Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

In the quiet, fog-covered ruins of a forgotten New England town, a group of strangers is drawn together by a series of cryptic, disturbing messages received on their damaged phones. As hallucinations bleed into reality, they begin to see visions of a monstrous figure—Pyramid Head—dragging his jagged blade through time and space, leaving a trail of static, blood, and guilt. Each of them is haunted by a hidden past, a secret sin, and a growing dread that something has marked them... and is watching. Led by Jessica Munroe, a trauma therapist reeling from personal tragedy, the group must confront a decaying psychiatric hospital at the heart of it all: Halcyon Asylum, "Transmission Site 44." There, reality bends and memories corrupt. As their connections to the outside world vanish and phones become tools of torment, they realize that Pyramid Head is not just a ghost — he is the embodiment of their collective guilt, feeding off signal and sin. The only way out is confession... but some secrets were buried for a reason.
