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Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Weaving landed his first major role as English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series Bodyline (1984). Continuing to act in Australia, he rose to prominence with his appearances in the films Proof (1991) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), winning his first AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role with the former. By the turn of the millennium, Weaving achieved international recognition through appearances in mainstream American productions. His most notable film roles include Agent Smith in the first three The Matrix films (1999–2003), Elrond in The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) trilogies, the title character in V for Vendetta (2005), and Johann Schmidt / Red Skull in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). In addition to his live action appearances, Weaving has had several voice over roles, including in the films Babe (1995), Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011), and the Transformers series as Megatron (2007–2011). He also reprised his roles of Agent Smith and Elrond in Matrix and Lord of the Rings video game adaptations.
Hugo Weaving
Francis Aberline
for Francis Aberline in Dark Universe - The Wolf Man (2016)
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Based off of the scrapped idea of the Dark Universe, this series explores the notion that the Universal Classic Monsters were rebooted for the modern day in a cinematic universe like the MCU or the Monsterverse. The series would largely have been comprised of Gothic horror movies, the first few introducing the main monsters and the next phases allowing them to meet, and new monsters to be introduced. Unlike other films in the franchise, this film linked back to a previous remake, acting as a sequel to the 2010 film of the same name and thereby making the 2010 Wolf Man the technical beginning of the series. The film follows members of the London elite after new attacks by a "Wolf-Man" break out. Meanwhile, the culprit, Francis Aberline, is trying to live with his condition as best he can, and wishes to isolate himself as best he can. The story thereby sets up these two threads through the perspective of Francis' niece Mary, who, whilst unaware of her father's affliction, believes there may be more humanity to the wolf man than meets the eye. This film was met with reasonably positive reception, and deemed an improvement over the previous Wolf Man film, but worse than all others in the main Dark Universe that had came before.
