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Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.
During a party, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is kidnapped by an unknown group of German terrorists. 3 weeks goes by and no one has heard from her since the night of the party, Authorities give up their search and presume that she was killed but when a video of Lucy being held hostage and warning everyone that the terrorists plan on dropping an atomic bomb on America unless their needs are met is nationally televised around America. Within 40 minutes of the hostage video being aired the McClane residence gets a mysterious phone call from who seems to be the leader of the terrorist group, he exclaims that he will kill John and his family and finally get his revenge and right before he hangs up the phone he says "Gruber Out". The NYPD discover that the leader of the terrorist group is Frederick Gruber (Tom Hiddleston), Simon Gruber's son and the last known relative of both Hans and Simon. John McClane (Bruce Willis) comes out of retirement and returns to the NYPD for one last mission, to save his daughter. John must now team up with the NYPD's Prodigy, Tyreese Bane (Lakeith Stanfield) along with a few old friends in order to save and Lucy and prevent America from becoming a nuclear wasteland.
