
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.

Doug Jones

Martian Man
for Martian Man in Invincible Live Action Series Amazon Prime
Suggested by thewantedraccoon

I'm going to start this off by saying exactly what I had said when I previously did a fancast for a hypothetical live action Arcane series, in that I do not believe that there needs to be any kind of remake of Invincible, live action or otherwise, to be made in any way shape or form. Invincible is a perfect, brilliant series entirely on its own and, just like the aforementioned Arcane, the most crucial, definitive reason it works as well as it does is because of the fact that it's animated. However, it's still a lot of fun to think about all these different hypothetical scenarios and come up with your own stories to go along with them, plus Invincible has so many unique and interesting characters in its lineup, way too interesting to pass up on a chance to present my own casting choices for them. Right, with all of that out of the way, let's just get into it. Here are my casting choices for the characters of a hypothetical live action version of one of the absolute best animated series going today, Invincible