
Age: 56
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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).

Gerard Butler

Sebastian Hopkins
for Sebastian Hopkins in DCU Green Arrow: Dark Reign
Suggested by matthewfenner

In 2025 Star City, corruption festers beneath polished campaign speeches and neon skylines. After three years of fighting from the shadows, Oliver Queen has become a symbol of vengeance and justice as the Green Arrow, leading a tight-knit team of vigilantes—John Diggle, his trusted second-in-command and ex-Marine; Roy Harper, the hotheaded new recruit and Protege known as Speedy; Felicity Smoak, the brilliant tech expert guiding them from behind the screens; and Dinah Drake, the fierce and morally grounded Black Canary. When a violent assassination attempt rattles the city, Team Arrow discovers a deadly threat stalking the streets—Malcolm Merlyn, the infamous Dark Archer, long thought dead, has returned to exact vengeance on Harley Stevens, a rising mayoral candidate who once destroyed his life in a corrupt election. As Merlyn’s warpath escalates into public chaos, Oliver faces a crisis of morality unlike any before. Every arrow loosed brings him closer to a man he once admired—and now must destroy. The hunt pushes Star City into open warfare, drawing out political rot, buried secrets, and the dark side of vigilantism itself. As alliances strain and blood is spilled, Green Arrow must decide whether justice can exist without mercy, or if vengeance has already claimed his soul. Brutal, grounded, and emotionally charged, Green Arrow: Dark Reign is a gritty, R-rated descent into the cost of heroism in a city that eats its own.