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Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Jeremy Irons
Ted Kord
for Ted Kord in Blue Beetle: and the Legend of the Scarab
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Jaime Reyes is a mexican young man working as a valet in San Francisco with his best friend Katy Chen, but his secret catches up to him when assassins from Black Beetle attack him on a city bus in a spectacular fight sequence where Jaime reveals his hidden identity as Blue Beetle, unleashing the alien Blue Beetle Scarab armor for the first time in public as blades, cannons, and wings erupt from the suit while the passengers panic and the fight spills through traffic, ending with the attackers retreating after realizing Jaime’s Scarab has fully bonded to him. Jaime and Katy are taken into the criminal underworld, where they encounter the powerful crime boss La Dama, who secretly controls a network of metahuman fights and black-market alien technology; inside her underground arena, Jaime witnesses a shocking battle between Khalid Nassour and the Atlantean villain Ocean Master, revealing that the strange alien tech surrounding him is tied to a much larger cosmic conflict. La Dama makes a deal with Jaime and Katy, offering to help them reach the Black Beetles while secretly pursuing her own hidden agenda; soon after, they are ambushed by the terrifying armored warrior Carapax, a relentless enforcer serving Black Beetle whose cybernetic enhancements make him nearly unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat, leading to a brutal chase and fight sequence where Jaime struggles to control the Scarab’s weapons while protecting innocent people. Jaime and Katy are eventually captured and taken to a secret high-security prison facility where they discover a surprising prisoner: Ted Kord, the previous Blue Beetle, who reveals the truth that Jaime’s Scarab is alien technology created by the Reach as a planetary infiltration weapon designed to conquer worlds from within, and that Black Beetle intends to activate Jaime’s Scarab as a beacon to summon the Reach invasion fleet to Earth. With Ted’s help the trio escape the prison while Carapax relentlessly hunts them, leading to a massive battle where Jaime finally embraces the Scarab instead of resisting it, unlocking new abilities and defeating Carapax in a destructive duel that showcases the full power of the Blue Beetle armor. Jaime eventually meets the King of the Black Beetles, and after a long and tense conversation about the Scarab’s true purpose as a tool of planetary conquest, Jaime rejects the alien destiny imposed on him, leading to a massive fantasy-scale showdown between Blue Beetle, the Black Beetles, and La Dama’s warriors; after an intense battle filled with aerial combat, alien weapons, and Scarab-powered abilities, Jaime and his allies overcome the Black Beetles and win. In the post-credits scene, members of the Justice League contact Jaime and Katy through a secure channel; there Jaime nervously speaks with Shazam, Aquaman, and Khalid Nassour, who explain that the Scarab is sending a signal far beyond Earth and may be calling something across the cosmos. In the final end-credits twist, the real intentions of La Dama are revealed: she declares herself the new Queen of the Black Beetles and retreats into the shadows with advanced Reach technology at her command, setting up a much larger threat for the future.
