Jake Gyllenhaal is my favorite actor to watch lose ... Gyllenhaal's crazy eyes are perhaps at their most understated, but no less important. His character, the comic artist Robert Graysmith ...

In the era of Peak TV and the subsequent streaming boom, character actors are working more than ... a propensity that suits his large wild eyes and that raspy voice, which can sound broish ...

The actor Vincent Schiavelli has died ... looks made him especially effective playing demented characters. He had a big nose, droopy eyes, and a bald forehead, ringed by curly black hair.

So-called character actors, long relegated to playing secretaries and goofy sidekicks, are often cast in meatier roles because of it. So what’s the difference nowadays between these actors and ...