Why Hazel From The Umbrella Academy Looks So Familiar

In case you hadn't noticed, we're living through what many believe to be the "golden age" of original streaming content — and as such, there's seemingly no end to the shows and movies streaming platforms are set to release into the world. With so many projects in the works, those platforms are also keeping a seemingly endless string of actors gainfully employed. In fact, most actors these days have at least a handful of streaming credits to their name already, so should come as no surprise that The Umbrella Academy was not the first streaming project to feature Britton.

In fact, the performer actually got his first big break on a different Netflix series. That break came when he landed a key role in Mindhunter, a project spearheaded by one of cinema's most revered filmmakers, the great David Fincher. The series follows the birth of the FBI's criminal profiling division in the 1970s, and Britton portrayed one of the criminals under the division's microscope. Some might even say that, in the context of Mindhunter, his Edmund Kemper (aka "The Coed Killer") is actually the criminal that started it all — and Britton's scene-stealing turn as the mammoth, wildly intelligent, no-nonsense killer is the very definition of towering.

Even though Britton has only appeared in 4 episodes of Mindhunter, one could easily argue no single character on the series to date has stood quite as tall (literally and figuratively). Likewise, none have cast quite as long (or as unsettling) a shadow over the proceedings.