For decades, Doug Jones has been haunting your nightmares and bringing mythological creatures to life, and you might not have even known it. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1985, the angular actor has been the film industry's go-to creature performer, dawning dozens of dazzling makeup jobs to play monsters, beasts, and—on one particular Oscar-winning occasion—an extremely sexy fish-god from the Amazon rainforest. You may have met him as the moonfaced McDonald's spokesman Mac Tonight. Or maybe it was as Bette Midler's zombie ex-lover in Hocus Pocus. Or even more likely …

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Thanks to roles like Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water and Saru in Star Trek: Discovery, Doug Jones is the most popular actor you don't know.

The former Abe Sapien actor almost had a cameo in the new Hellboy movie.

Saru actor Doug Jones talks facing the Ba’ul and more about Star Trek: Discovery Season 2.