Doug Jones

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Summary

Doug Jones is an American actor known for physical performances under extensive prosthetic makeup, including Abe Sapien in Hellboy, the Faun and Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth, the Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water, and Saru in Star Trek: Discovery. His work often gives fantastical creatures and outsiders expressive, sympathetic inner lives. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.