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Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
One year after the attacks of New York City, the members of the Avengers have been off on their missions and fighting their own battles. The team came to an agreement that they would assemble once more if the world were in need of their mightiest heroes, with even Nick Fury hesitate to contact the team as he trusted them to fight their own battles. Within the year, the initiative have locked away some of their greatest enemies in the Raft, a prison facility built to keep the most dangerous criminals in the world, wardened by General Thaddeus Ross. As the latest addition of the prison facility Baron Zemo is escorted to his cell, the flashing light glows in front of him as the Enchantress appears to share her plans on taking down the Avengers. She frees Baron from his cell before freeing the Abomination, Spymaster, Viper, Grim Reaper and Crossbones. The villains create havoc by attacking the prison guards of the facility as they break free from the Raft. Thaddeus Ross arrives on the Raft to observe the destruction left by the prisoners, he then proceeds to contact Nick Fury as he believes this is an Avengers level-threat.
