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Rory Kinnear returns this week in Men, an intriguing-looking indie horror movie in which he plays multiple roles. To get ready for his next project, we've taken a deep dive into this versatile actor's background, who's appeared in everything from the Bond movies to Russell T Davies' acclaimed miniseries Years and Years.
Here are 10 things you may not know about him:
1. He comes from an acting family.
His father Roy Kinnear was a prolific comedy actor who appeared in famous movies including Help!, The Three Musketeers and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. His mother Carmel Cryan amassed numerous U.K. TV credits including 18 episodes of EastEnders in 2008-2009; she played the character Brenda Boyle.

2. He was profoundly affected by the untimely death of his father.
Roy Kinnear died in 1988 after falling from his horse while shooting the movie The Return of the Musketeers. He was just 54 years of age. Rory told The Guardian last year: "In terms of trauma, Dad dying had the greatest impact on my life. The foundation he gave me was of purest love, entertainment, and support. I remember him well: driving to Roehampton [in Southwest London] to fill the car up, going to the bank, and I remember how, each Saturday, the two of us would set up a little cafe and pretend to be Italian chefs and cook what was basically bacon and eggs."
3. While shooting the Bond movies, he became Dame Judi Dench's Scrabble buddy.
Dench's late husband Michael Williams was Kinnear's godfather, so he has known her all of his life. "On the first film we went to Panama for eight days," he told The Independent. "And she worked for about three hours and I worked for about eight minutes. The rest of the time was spent playing Scrabble. But I couldn’t possibly tell you how many times I beat her. I’m too much of a gentleman."
4. He also loves doing jigsaw puzzles.
Kinnear appreciates the process because it satisfies his logical side. "I'm not a hard taskmaster when it comes to puzzles. But you’ve got to be so stubborn," he told the Financial Times. "It's peculiarly satisfying as well as annoying and frustrating. It’s so chaotic and trying to restructure it and trying to give some sense of order to it. I guess that’s why I like it."
4. He studied English at Oxford University.
One of his classmates at the prestigious English university's Balliol College was none other than Rosamund Pike.
5. He wasn't always convinced he wanted to become an actor.
For a time, Kinnear actually considered a career as a butcher. "Dad used to always take me to the butchers with him," Kinnear told The Times. "I wanted to make the decision to act on experience and knowledge rather than aspiration and hope. Otherwise I might have become a very well-read butcher."
6. He survived something close to a near-death experience while shooting the 2011 miniseries Women in Love. 
Interestingly, Kinnear says that he remained calm under immense pressure. "I was filming in Namibia in the desert. I managed to wipe some toxic cactus residue into my eye," he told The Guardian. "I went into anaphylactic shock and my body began to shut down. I realized I was in danger but my tone, as I was driven away at top speed, became incredibly measured, monotone, and clear-sighted – my way of trying not to be swamped by panic."
7. As well as being an actor, he is a playwright. 
Kinnear's play The Herd, a family-based drama, was performed in London in 2013 and Chicago in 2015. The New York Times hailed it as "a buoyantly entertaining play."

8. He wrote incredibly movingly about losing his sister Karina to coronavirus.
His sister Karina Kinnear was deprived of oxygen at birth, which caused severe brain damage and physical disabilities. She passed away in May 2020 at the age of 48. "It was coronavirus that killed her. It wasn’t her “underlying conditions,'" Kinnear wrote in The Guardian shortly afterward. "Prior to her diagnosis, she hadn’t been in hospital for 18 months – an unusually care-free period for Karina. No, it was a virulent, aggressive, and still only partially understood virus that was responsible, a virus that is causing thousands of people, despite the unstinting bravery of the medical staff of this country, to say a distanced goodbye to relatives who would still be alive had they not contracted it."
10. And finally, he doesn't mind being described as an "everyman."
In fact, he thinks it's why he's able to take on such a wide range of roles. "I've said it enough about myself, my plainness is potent," he told The Independent. "Professional potent plainness!" 
Do you feel like you know Rory Kinnear a bit better now?