article_snippet: Yet although Aidan Turner may look familiar to some, others might find Aidan Turner hard to place - unless you're a fan of fantasy films and supernatural drama that is.
article_snippet: For before donning the tricorn hat and brooding scowl of the landowner who returns to Cornwall to find his true love is engaged to another man, Aidan Turner was busy fighting evil in Middle Earth.
article_snippet: Aidan became famous as vampire John Mitchell in the BBC3 supernatural housemates dramedy Being Human .
article_snippet: Turner even popped up in The Tudors in one episode as a richly-dressed character called Bedoli .
article_snippet: As John Schofield, Hattie Jacques' lodger and lover, Turner had to don Sixties clothing .
article_snippet: Turner career in television began in 2007 when Turner embraced 16th century-style costume to appear in one episode of the television series The Tudors.
article_snippet: More period work was to follow when Turner was chosen to play pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the six-part BBC series the Desperate Romantics, followed swiftly by appearances as Ruairí McGowan on The Clinic.
article_snippet: But Turner finally had a change of pace in 2008 when Turner was cast as the undead John Mitchell in the supernatural drama
article_snippet: With Turner hair slicked back, Turner face deathly pale, an all-black wardrobe and a set of menacing fangs, the actor earned a new army of fans.
article_snippet: Turner: Russell Tovey (left) as George, Aidan Turner (centre) as Mitchell and Lenora Crichlow as Annie won a legion of fans after starring in the hit
article_snippet: Aidan Turner (second from right) dons period costume as Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the six-part BBC series the Desperate Romantics alongside (from left) Samuel Barnett as John Millais, Sam Crane as Fred Walters and Rafe Spall as William Holman Hunt .
article_snippet: But for Hattie, the 2011 TV film about   Hattie Jacques' life, Aidan returned to period costume again - this time from the Sixties - as the Carry