Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Age: 39

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːhiə/; born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019). He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He portrays the Marvel Comics character Simon Williams / Wonder Man in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Aaron Arnold

for Aaron Arnold in Creature from the Black Lagoon

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Creature from the Black Lagoon

Horror Slasher/Monster with a love story. A remake of the 1954 classic with elements of Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us. Even elements from The Shape of Water. A tourist couple with a failing marriage gets roped into an expedition to search for an explored area in the oceans of Central America where they come across potentially, the last surviving species of unknown origin but at the same, the creature and wife had fallen in love where the two have sympathy for each other as a love triangle persists all while the trio become targets of an abusive scientist among the expedition and those who wish to exploit the Gill Man.

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