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  • Tilda Swinton on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#14) Tilda Swinton

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    She was the Ancient One in Marvel's Doctor Strange, where she got to slap Benedict Cumberbatch and Mads Mikkelsen around. She was, like, half the cast in Luca Guadagnino's ambitious remake of Suspiria. She played villains for Bong Joon-ho in Snowpiercer and Okja before he won the Academy Award for Parasite. She was the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia.

    Before any of those things, though, Swinton had a breakout performance as the psychotic, androgynous half-angel Gabriel in Constantine, where she played opposite Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, and Shia LaBeouf.

  • Brie Larson on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#10) Brie Larson

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    In 2010, Brie Larson played Scott's ex Envy Adams in Edgar Wright's adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a film that also featured a pre-Captain America Chris Evans in a villain role. Envy Adams isn't the film's main villain; that's Jason Schwartzman as Gideon Graves, the leader of the band of "evil exes" Scott must fight in order to date Ramona Flowers. But as the girl who broke Scott's heart - and the current significant other of one of the aforementioned evil exes - Envy isn't exactly a hero. 

    Her career subsequently rose with the likes of 21 Jump Street and Short Term 12, but Larson's big hit came five years after Scott Pilgrim, when she won an Academy Award for her lead role in Room. Within a few more years, she got the title role in Captain Marvel and headlined Marvel's first female-led superhero movie.

  • Norman Reedus on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#11) Norman Reedus

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    Spoiler alert! Before he was Daryl Dixon in AMC's hit series The Walking Dead, Norman Reedus played the traitorous sidekick of the eponymous Blade (Wesley Snipes) in Guillermo del Toro's Blade II. Just a few years earlier, Reedus had starred in the cult flick Boondock Saints, but his working relationship with del Toro actually predated even that. Reedus can be seen in Mimic, del Toro's first English-language film, which was also Reedus's major feature debut, playing a brief part as someone who finds one of the film's giant insects.

    As Scud in Blade II, Reedus is front and maybe just slightly left of center for almost the entire film, providing some of its comic relief before the third-act reveal that he's a traitor who's been secretly informing the vampires all along. He also gets to rock a B.P.R.D. T-shirt just a few years before del Toro would bring the B.P.R.D. to the big screen in Hellboy.

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#6) Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt has what seems like a throwaway role in Stephen Sommers's G.I. Joe flick. Levitt plays Rex, the brother of the Baroness, whose apparent demise during a mission led by Channing Tatum's Duke is the cause of the schism between Duke and the Baroness, who were formerly a romantic item. Of course, this isn't the kind of movie in which Chekhov's Gun stays up on the mantle, so it turns out Rex is actually Cobra Commander in the guise of the Doctor, the film's disfigured villain.

    It's all a little convoluted, to be honest, but the point is that after breaking out in TV shows like 3rd Rock from the Sun but before hitting it big in movies like InceptionThe Dark Knight Rises, and Looper, you can see Joseph Gordon-Levitt chewing some scenery under a bunch of prosthetics and a monocle, no less, in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

  • Timothy Olyphant on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#9) Timothy Olyphant

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    Timothy Olyphant has made a name for himself on the small screen even more than he has on the big screen, playing lead roles in hit series like JustifiedDeadwood, and Santa Clarita Diet. That doesn't mean he's a stranger to the movies, though. He was the lead in the 2010 remake of The Crazies and a villain in Live Free or Die Hard, and recently he showed up in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

    Way before any of that, he made his feature film debut as the psychotic copycat Mickey in Scream 2. While Mickey is more pawn than villain, his is the hand that holds the knife the majority of the time, even if the plot is driven by Laurie Metcalf, who plays the mother of Billy Loomis, one of the slashers from the first movie.

  • Christopher Eccleston on Random Movie Stars You Forgot Played Villains In Blockbuster Movies

    (#13) Christopher Eccleston

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    Christopher Eccleston was already a familiar face on British TV by the time he played the villainous foil to Nicolas Cage's professional car thief in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, but he was still five years out from landing the role most of us know him for - playing the eponymous ninth Doctor in the long-running Doctor Who series.

    In 60 Seconds, Eccleston plays Raymond Calitri, an entitled British smuggler and crime boss working in Long Beach, CA. Calitri compels Cage and his crew to swipe 50 high-end cars in 72 hours. "Compels," in this case, by sticking Cage's brother in a car crusher and threatening to off him if the car thieves don't deliver. As you might imagine, Calitri doesn't make it out of the picture in very good health, but Eccleston certainly did, going on to much greater fame in the following years, including that aforementioned turn on Doctor Who, not to mention other villainous turns like Destro in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Malekith in Thor: The Dark World.

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