The rest of the cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and Ray Winstone.

NPR: Ensemble Films Fill the Screen with Cameos

Beowulf is voiced by Ray Winstone, whose motion-captured alter ego is a buff blonde who looks more like the young Sean Bean.

CNN: Review: Exciting 'Beowulf' jumps off the screen

With Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen, and Ray Winstone.

NEWYORKER: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Here, outside a remote settlement, live Captain Morris Stanley (Ray Winstone), the chief of police, and his wife, Martha (Emily Watson), who are striving to maintain a British decorum, complete with Christmas dinner, in an untamable land.

NEWYORKER: The Proposition

He has now created a leaner, more aggressive, and emotionally much thinner piece of work, and the presence of Ray Winstone, in the role of a secretive fixer, serves only to confuse, rather than to enrich, the complexity of the setup.

NEWYORKER: Edge of Darkness