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Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (/ˈɡlʌvər/; born September 25, 1983), also known by his musical name Childish Gambino (/ɡæmˈbiːnoʊ/), is an American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. While he studied at New York University and after working in Derrick Comedy, a comedy group, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock at age 23. He gained fame for portraying college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community from 2009 to 2014. From 2016 to 2022, he starred in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directed. For his work on Atlanta, he won various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as two Golden Globe Awards. Glover has appeared in several films, including the supernatural horror The Lazarus Effect (2015), the comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL (2015), and the science fiction film The Martian (2015). He played Aaron Davis in the superhero film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), as well as Lando Calrissian in the space western Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). He provided the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King (2019) and produced the short film Guava Island (2019), in which he starred. He co-created the comedy thriller television series Swarm (2023). Glover is also credited as a principal inspiration for the creation of the Marvel Comics superhero Miles Morales/Spider-Man, whom Glover himself briefly voiced in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man. In 2024, he created and starred in the Prime Video series Mr. & Mrs. Smith. After a number of independently released projects, Glover signed with Glassnote Records in 2011 and released his debut studio album, Camp, in November of that year to critical and commercial success. His second album, Because the Internet (2013), was supported by the single "3005," which became his first Billboard Hot 100 entry. His psychedelic funk-inspired 2016 single, "Redbone," peaked at number 12 on the chart, won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance, and preceded the release of his third album, "Awaken, My Love!" (2016), which saw continued success. Glover's 2018 single, "This Is America," debuted atop the Billboard Hot 100 and won in all of the categories for which it was nominated at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance, and Best Music Video; it won a Guinness World Record as the first hip hop song to win in the former two categories. His fourth album, 3.15.20, was released in 2020.[17]In 2024, he released Atavista, a reworking of 3.15.20, and later his fifth album, Bando Stone & the New World. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Glover, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Troy fell. Rome waited. Between them: one man, the gods' attention, and a woman in Carthage who deserved better. A faithful, psychologically rich adaptation of the Aeneid — Virgil's foundational Roman epic — that treats Aeneas neither as simply heroic nor as Dido's callous abandoner, but as an extraordinarily complicated man caught between personal love and divine obligation in a way that destroys everyone involved. Three seasons cover the fall of Troy and the Mediterranean wandering (Season 1), the Carthage episode and its devastating aftermath (Season 2), and the Italian wars and Rome's founding (Season 3). The Underworld episode — in which Aeneas descends to meet his dead father Anchises and glimpse Rome's future — is the universe's most sacred sequence: Pluto and Proserpina receive Aeneas with the grave dignity their domain commands. Pluto neither performs menace nor displays resentment. He is the sovereign of a realm Aeneas has entered legitimately, through divine dispensation, and he treats the visit with the seriousness it deserves. S1E1 — The Fall of Troy Troy burning. Aeneas carrying his father on his back, his son's hand in his, his gods under his arm. The founding loss from which everything else follows. S2E6 — Carthage The full Dido and Aeneas arc. The love, the domesticity, the divine intervention, the departure. The series' most emotionally devastating episode. S3E12 — Roma Series finale: The wars concluded. The city's lineage secured. Aeneas dying having completed his task. The camera holds on the Tiber, the seven hills, the city that does not yet exist but will.
