Adam Scott has been a familiar face since the 90s, popping up in everything from Hellraiser IV: Bloodline to Star Trek: First Contact, and comedies including Knocked Up and Step Brothers. You might remember him – and his beard – as the smarmy boss sparring with Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (“I was saying you know who looks good in a beard? Dumbledore. Not you”), or meddling with timelines in Hot Tub Time Machine 2.

It was his role as state auditor Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation, that made him indispensable: the anxious policy wonk turned devoted husband to Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler). Fans will have their own favourite Ben moments – from the two-second stop-motion film that took weeks to make, to the invention of the Cones of Dunshire board game and his earnest devotion to Game of Thrones and 90s alt-rockers Letters to Cleo.

Since Parks and Rec, he has moved between comedy and drama on the small screen – from a demon in The Good Place to a political operative in Veep – before taking the lead in Severance, the unnerving workplace drama that has become one of Apple TV’s most talked-about hits. His film work has continued, including Madame Web alongside Dakota Johnson, and as an absent father in Stephen King’s The Monkey.

His long-running U Talkin’… podcast series is also worth a listen, in which he obsessively deep-dives into bands including U2, REM and Talking Heads. He’s also prone to the occasional burst of fandom himself – like when he met his hero Mark Hamill on Jimmy Kimmel.

Now he returns in supernatural horror Hokum, and is here to take your questions; please get them in by 3pm BST this Thursday 16 April and we’ll publish his responses in our reader interview series.

• Hokum is in cinemas 1 May