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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (/ˌdʒiːəˈmɑːti/JEE-ə-MAH-tee; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. After studying acting at the Yale School of Drama, he performed in numerous theatrical productions. Giamatti debuted on Broadway, portraying Ezra Chater in the Tom Stoppard play Arcadia (1995). Later that year, he played the Rev. Donald "Streaky" Bacon in the David Hare play Racing Demon (1995). He returned to theatre in the revivals of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1999). Giamatti's breakout film role was in Private Parts (1997), followed by roles in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Man on the Moon (1999). He won acclaim for his leading roles in American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), Win Win (2011), and Private Life (2018). He has also acted in Planet of the Apes (2001), The Illusionist (2006), Fred Claus (2007), The Ides of March (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Love & Mercy (2014), and Straight Outta Compton (2015). He has earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Joe Gould in Cinderella Man (2005) and Best Actor for playing a disgruntled teacher in The Holdovers (2023). On television, Giamatti played the role in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), earning him acclaim and several awards, including a Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe. He starred as U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades Jr. in the Showtime television series Billions (2016–2023). He earned Emmy nominations for his roles as Ben Bernanke in the HBO film Too Big to Fail (2011) and Harold Levinson in the ITV series Downton Abbey (2013). In the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror episode Eulogy (2025), he played a grieving lover. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Giamatti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Paul Giamatti
Dr Saul Erdel
for Dr Saul Erdel in DC Martian Manhunter : The Series
Suggested by manwithoutfear
A human on planet Earth named Dr Saul Erdel, he is a scientist who is underestimated by the American Government, while he was in Hawaii, he found an ancient technology transmitter Mars, he also tried to make contact with outside Earth, he pointed his device around Mars and activate it. The emitting ray shot across time and space centuries before Erdel was born, The ray brought J'onn back to Erdel's natural time era, where he collapsed on the ground outside Coloardo's laboratory, Erdel brought a confused Martian inside and tried to take care of him, Sadness J's mental state onn creates a psychic bond between the two, and Erdel becomes aware of events happening on Mars, In an attempt to heal J'onn J'onz's mind, Erdel uses mental connections to make a new history for the Martians. Finally J'onn J'onz's sanity was restored, Erdel had wanted to use J'onn J'onz for his own interests, but when J'onn changed his form like a Human, Erdel was shocked and suffered a heart attack he suffered, while he was dying, Erdel asks J'onn to forgive him for making him a prisoner of the earth, then Erdel reveals to J'onn that Mars has become extinct because of the plague given by Ma'alefa'ak, J'onn also uses his human form and protects and gives justice on Earth as a policeman like his profession on Mars, he became a Martian Manhunter.
