Tom Ellis

Tom Ellis made the devil charming, and it takes a particular kind of magnetism to pull that off. Born in Cardiff in 1978 to a family thick with Baptist ministers (his father, an uncle and one of his sisters all preach), he grew up in Sheffield playing French horn in the youth orchestra before training in dramatic studies at Glasgow's Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He first won hearts as the endearing Gary Preston in the BBC sitcom Miranda, then found global fame as Lucifer Morningstar, the fallen angel turned Los Angeles nightclub owner, across six seasons of Lucifer. His Scorpio Sun is the perfect casting: the Eagle at the core, the god of death and rebirth, the Phoenix rising from the ashes, power channelled through the mind and a magnetism that reads a room without blinking. It is no accident he shone as the great transformer, forever dying and being reborn on screen. Balancing that Scorpionic depth is his Gemini Moon, a quicksilver, talkative, endlessly adaptable emotional nature that thrives on wit and lightness and connects with everyone at speed. The blend gives him range: bottomless intensity beneath a nimble, comic sparkle, the very tension that made his Lucifer both dangerous and irresistibly likeable.