Bilbo Baggins
Holm raised his profile in 1997 with two prominent roles, as the stressed but gentle priest Vito Cornelius in "The Fifth Element" and lawyer Mitchell Stephens in "The Sweet Hereafter". In 2001 he starred in "From Hell" as the physician Sir William Withey Gull. The same year, he appeared as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster film ', having previously played Bilbo's nephew Frodo Baggins in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings". He returned for ' (2003), for which he shared a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. He later reprised his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in the movie ' and '. Martin Freeman portrayed the young Bilbo Baggins in those films.