Luis Tosar

Cell 211 (2009) puts Tosar's forceful presence at the centre of a prison uprising as Malamadre. His earlier work in Mondays in the Sun (2002) offers a different social setting and an ensemble shaped by unemployment. The Galician actor's Spanish screen career is worth following for the distance between outward toughness and the pressure underneath. Choose these films for characters embedded in particular working lives, rather than for a transferable action-hero image.