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Rory Kinnear (born February 17, 1978) is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. He is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre, and in various video games of the franchise. He is the youngest actor to play the role of Bill Tanner. He also won a Laurence Olivier Award for portraying Fopling Flutter in a 2008 version of The Man of Mode, and a British Independent Film Award for his performance in the 2012 film Broken. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
Antigone, a tragedy by Sophocles, centers on the defiant daughter of Oedipus, the former king of Thebes. After a brutal civil war in which her brothers Eteocles and Polyneices kill each other, King Creon ascends the throne and declares that Eteocles, who defended the city, will be honored with a proper burial, while Polyneices, who attacked it, is to be left unburied as a traitor. Antigone, driven by loyalty to divine law and familial duty, defies Creon's decree and buries her brother. Her act of rebellion sets off a tragic chain of events. Creon, stubborn and unyielding, sentences her to death, despite pleas from his son Haemon, who is also Antigone’s fiancé. The gods and the prophet Tiresias warn of the consequences, but Creon realizes his error too late. Antigone dies, followed by Haemon and then Creon's wife, Eurydice, leaving Creon alone, broken by the loss brought on by his own pride. The play is a powerful exploration of justice, loyalty, and the consequences of absolute power.
