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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter. In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jude Law
Mar-Vell / Walter Lawson
for Mar-Vell / Walter Lawson in Captain Marvel (2019)
Suggested by stevenkelly
Captain Carol Danvers is one of the U.S. Air Force's most talented fighter pilots, but her arrogance and relentless need to prove herself lead to a disastrous mission that costs her the career she loves. Offered a second chance as a security officer aboard a S.W.O.R.D. orbital research station, Carol becomes caught in a Skrull attack on an experimental faster-than-light engine created by the mysterious Dr. Walter Lawson, who is secretly the Kree warrior Mar-Vell. When the engine explodes, Carol is infused with Space Stone energy and transformed into a powerful human-Kree hybrid. Traveling to the Kree homeworld of Hala, she joins the elite Starforce and embraces her incredible new abilities, believing that power is finally the proof of her worth she has always sought. But as she uncovers the truth behind the Kree Empire's oppression and the Supreme Intelligence's manipulation of the centuries-long Kree-Skrull War, Carol begins to question everything she thought she knew. Carol's journey becomes deeply personal when she learns that Mar-Vell secretly fathered a son, Dorrek, with the Skrull Anelle—a child whose existence threatens both civilizations by proving that their hatred is built on lies. As the Kree and Skrulls race to seize the boy, Carol is forced to confront the emotional scars left by her abusive father and realize that true strength is not measured by power or victory, but by protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Rejecting her role as a weapon, she ends the Supreme Intelligence's reign, saves Dorrek, and inspires both sides to pursue peace instead of endless war. Embracing the mantle of Captain Marvel, Carol leaves Earth once more to become a guardian of the galaxy, dedicating her life to defending worlds that have no heroes of their own.
