Owen Wilson
Once a ubiquitous comedic actor—recently less so, but never really out of the public eye (does Lightning McQueen ever take time off?)—Owen Wilson had what amounted to a comeback this year thanks to his appealing turn as Mobius M. Mobius in Marvel’s Disney+ series Loki. Introduced as the Time Variance Authority agent who took on Loki’s rather complicated case, Mobius soon revealed there was more to him than just his job; he was willing to stick his neck out for a (sometimes) villain and consider a whole different version of reality that what he was used to. (Hopefully he’ll finally get that jet-ski in season two.) In 2021, Wilson also appeared in sci-fi romance Bliss and was recently cast in Disney’s new crack at a Haunted Mansion movie.
