Jeremy Sisto

Jeremy Sisto arrived in Clueless (1995) as Elton, the rich boy who interprets a lift home as an invitation, a small part played with exactly the right amount of self-regard. Born in Grass Valley, California in 1974, he followed it with White Squall, Suicide Kings, Without Limits and the title role in the 1999 television film Jesus.

Six Feet Under is the performance that matters. As Billy Chenowith he plays a talented, mentally ill artist whose arrival in a scene makes everyone in it unsafe, including him. It is a difficult piece of writing to sustain across the show's run without turning into either a villain or a lesson, and Sisto keeps him a person throughout. Nothing since has asked for that much.

The 2000s were horror and independents, which suited him: Adam in May, Brady in Thirteen, Scott in Wrong Turn, Ben Miller in A Lot Like Love. He has an unusual quality for that period of American film, an amiability with something unreliable underneath it, and directors kept finding uses for it.

Then the procedurals took over. Detective Cyrus Lupo on Law & Order from 2008, George Altman on Suburgatory with a Critics' Choice nomination for the comedy work, and since 2018 Jubal Valentine on CBS's FBI. Alongside that, a steady voice career: King Runeard in Frozen II, Talon in Batman vs. Robin, Ferdinand's father, Larry on Rugrats.