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Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series Lovejoy (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in Deadwood (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in American Gods (2017–2021). For the original series of Deadwood, McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. His film roles include Harry Brown in The Wild and the Willing (1962), Charlie Cartwright in If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Wolfe Lissner in Villain (1971), Teddy Bass in Sexy Beast (2000), Frank Powell in Hot Rod (2007), Blackbeard in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), and Winston Scott in the John Wick franchise (2014–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian McShane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Blizzard is a 2025 American neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Verbinski from a story by Joe Carnahan. A co-production between Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry, it is the first installment in the Blizzard film series. The film stars Sasha Calle, with Dafne Keen, Michael Shannon, Laurence Fishburne, Norman Reedus, Nicholas Hoult, Maribel Verdú, and Ian McShane in supporting roles. It follows a survivalist (Calle), who suffers from survivor's guilt, as she willingly agrees to take in a young Spanish girl (Keen) twice her own youth to protect her from her cruel and abusive father (Shannon) at the behest of the child's terminally ill mother (Verdú). Blizzard opened in theaters on December 8th, 2025; the film received generally positive reviews, with Calle's performance receiving the highest praise, and many complimented the visual style, direction, themes, action sequences, and the score, though the film's graphic violence and implications of rape drew controversy. It was widely considered a comeback in Verbinski's career, which had declined in 2019. It was also a box-office success, grossing $571 million worldwide against a $1.4 million budget. A sequel is currently in development with Calle and Keen set to return.
