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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, rulers of Thebes. After the suicide of Jocasta and the exile of Oedipus, the two brothers of Antigone, Eteocle and Polynice killed each other for the throne of Thebes. Creon, brother of Jocasta is - as such - the new king and decided to offer burial only to Etéocle and not to Polynice, described as thug and traitor. He warned by an edict that anyone who dares to bury the renegade's body will be punished with death. Nobody dares to brave the forbidden and the corpse of Polynice is abandoned to the sun and scavengers. Only Antigone refuses this situation. Despite the prohibition of her uncle, she goes several times to the body of his brother and tries to cover it with soil. Ismene, his sister, does not want to accompany him because she is afraid of Creon and death. Antigone is caught by the king's guards. Creon is obliged to apply the sentence of death to Antigone. After a long debate with her uncle on the purpose of existence, she is condemned to be buried alive. But just as the tomb is going to be sealed, Creon learns that his son, Hémon, fiancé of Antigone, has let himself be shut up with the one he loves. When the tomb is reopened, Antigone hangs with her belt and Hemon, spitting in her father's face, opens her belly with her sword. Despaired by the disappearance of the son she adored, Eurydice, Creon's wife, cuts her throat.
