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Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.
Aboard the Dolomite, Julian Lish is trying to evade a synthetic Xenomorph during a routine training exercise. XL-1, the synthetic Xenomorph she has fondly nicknamed Norbert, is ultimately called off to play fetch with the ships dog, Mac, by Dr. Stan Mayakovsky. It is revealed that Stan, an expert in the field of cybernetics, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and relies on Xeno-Zip, an increasingly hard to find illegal substance, to dull the pain as he nears the end of his life, when Julie, a master thief, exploited his drug addiction to enlist him and his ship in an attempt to travel to the Alien infested planet A6 454, infiltrate a Xenomorph super-hive, and harvest a batch of Royal Jelly, the base ingredient of Xeno-Zip, worth millions on the black market.
