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Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director and producer. After taking minor roles in television, he established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. He has received several accolades, including seven Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Cranston first gained prominence playing Hal in the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). He was Emmy-nominated for All the Way (2016) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018). Cranston co-developed and appeared in the crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019), and has also starred in the drama series Your Honor (2020–2023). On stage, he earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Broadway play All the Way (2014), a role he reprised in the 2016 HBO film of the same name. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network on the West End and Broadway, respectively. Cranston earned nominations for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for portraying Dalton Trumbo in the Hollywood blacklist drama Trumbo (2015). Other notable films include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Drive (2011), Contagion (2011), Argo (2012), Godzilla (2014), The Infiltrator (2016), The Upside (2017), Last Flag Flying (2017), Isle of Dogs (2018), Asteroid City (2023), and The Phoenician Scheme (2025). He has also voiced roles in Madagascar 3 (2012), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Cranston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
(This is obviously a VERY loose adaption in my head). Dr. Harleen Quinzel is a leader at Arkham Asylum, having had a long and successful career there. Some of her notable work includes the rehabilitation of the formerly criminally insane Harvey Dent, Pam Ivy, and Jervis Tetch, the establishment of a more ethical and kind philosophy of treatment at the facility, and achieving the position of head doctor at the facility, passing over even the heir to the Arkham name, Amadeus Arkham, and the reclusive, prickly genius, Jonathan Crane. She holds a dark secret, however; an intense, sexual relationship with a former patient, the mass-murderer Arthur Fleck, better known as Joker. However, Joker died many years ago in a confrontation between himself, the Batman, and the GCPD, ending with the GCPD opening fire on the criminal. But now, a new patient has been admitted into Arkham Asylum; a patient claiming to be Arthur Fleck, the Joker, also referring to himself as Lou Morningstar. His prints match a former mob enforcer named Jack Napier, but he has no memory of this. Dr. Quinzel initially dismisses his claims to be her former lover as nothing but the ravings of a mad man or someone trying to gain a form of “asylum clout,” but soon, as she begins to have therapy sessions with the man, he begins revealing things about their relationship that only the real Joker could possibly know.
