Ian Holm was a British actor.

An established star of the Royal Shakespeare Company before making an impact on the screen, Holm earned a Tony award for his work in Homecoming (1967) more than a decade before landing one of his most well known roles as Ash in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979).

He was nominated for an Oscar for his work in Chariots of Fire (1981), and went on to lend his talents to Brazil (1985), Another Woman (1988), Henry V (1989), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), Big Night (1996), Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), The Fifth Element (1997), Garden State (2004), and he voiced Chef Skinner in Ratatouille (2007).

Holm also portrayed Bilbo Baggins for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003), and in The Hobbit installments An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014).

In television, he had recurring roles in The Power Game, The Man From Haven, Napoleon and Love, The Lost Boys, The Bell, Game, Set, and Match, The Borrowers, and The Return of the Borrowers.

Holm earned two Primetime Emmy nominations, first in 1999 as a lead actor in Performance and again in 2001 as a supporting actor in The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.

Holm died June 19, 2020, in London, England. He was 88.