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David Krumholtz (born May 15, 1978) is an American actor. Krumholtz is best known for portraying Bernard in The Santa Clause franchise (1994–present), Michael Eckman in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Goldstein in the Harold & Kumar film trilogy (2004–2011), Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs (2005–2010), and Isidor Isaac Rabi in Oppenheimer (2023). Krumholtz has also had other supporting roles in notable films such as Addams Family Values (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), Ray (2004), Serenity (2005), Superbad (2007), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Sausage Party (2016), Wonder Wheel (2017), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). He also portrayed Harvey Wasserman in the HBO drama series The Deuce (2017–2019) and Monty Levin in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America (2020). Krumholtz made his Broadway debut in the 1992 play Conversations with My Father. He returned to Broadway playing Hermann Merz in Tom Stoppard's semi-biographical Holocaust play Leopoldstadt (2022), for which he received a Drama League Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Krumholtz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cleopatra VII has been exiled from Egypt by her brother-husband Ptolemy XIII, who seized control of the kingdom with the support of corrupt ministers. Alone, desperate, and only twenty-one years old, Cleopatra seeks out Julius Caesar, the Roman general who has arrived in Alexandria to mediate between warring factions. Caesar is immediately entranced by her intellect, her languages (she speaks nine), and her political strategy. Their alliance becomes romantic, but never merely romantic — it is a calculated partnership between two brilliant people who recognize in each other an equal. Together, they wage war against Ptolemy and his forces, and Cleopatra reclaims her throne. The season is a military and political thriller that also functions as a passionate romance, with the critical emotional core being Cleopatra's evolution from exiled woman to ruler. By season end, she is pregnant with Caesar's child, and the Romans are consolidating power in Egypt in ways that promise both protection and threat.
