Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!

As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outings A doppelganger role can be a trap for an actor: either the two roles are not sufficiently distinct, or they are too hammily different, and either way the result can look like a film school graduation project.

But Jesse Eisenberg gives a stylish split-personality turn in Richard Ayoade’s adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella. He plays Simon, a nerdily shy and self-effacing computer programmer in a grim futureworld, ignored by his employers and by co-worker Hannah (Mia…