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Clarence John "Clancy" Brown III (born January 5, 1959) is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since the 1980s, Brown is often cast in villainous and authoritative roles. His film roles include Rawhide in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), the Kurgan in Highlander (1986), Sheriff Gus Gilbert in Pet Sematary Two (1992), Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Sgt. Charles Zim in Starship Troopers (1997), Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Stanley Thomas in Promising Young Woman (2020), and the Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). On television, he has played Brother Justin Crowe on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005), Waylon "Jock" Jeffcoat on the Showtime series Billions (2018–2019, 2023), Kurt Caldwell on the Showtime series Dexter: New Blood (2021–2022), and Sal Maroni in The Penguin (2024). In animation, Brown has voiced Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Universe (1996–2006) and Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present). His other animated roles include Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006) and Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2011–2013). He has also voiced video game characters such as Doctor Neo Cortex and Uka Uka in the Crash Bandicoot franchise (1997–2003) and Hank Anderson in Detroit: Become Human (2018). Clarence J. Brown III was born on January 5, 1959, in Urbana, Ohio, and had an older sister, Beth, who died in 1964. Their mother, Joyce Helen (née Eldridge), was a conductor, composer and concert pianist. The siblings' father, Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr., was a newspaper publisher who helped manage the Brown Publishing Company, the family-owned newspaper business started by Clancy's grandfather, Congressman Clarence J. Brown. From 1965 to 1983, Bud Brown also served as a congressman, in the same seat as his own father, and later as Chairman of the Board of Brown Publishing. The family continued to operate the business until 2010. Brown graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University. At St. Albans, Brown performed the role of Deputy Governor Thomas Danforth in The Crucible.
Latveria is a small European nation located in southeastern Europe, outside of the city of Haasenstadt is where the Zefiro clan often camped. The clan were referred to as gypsies by the outside world despite the people living peaceful lives as Latverian and Romani wanderers. The clan however were often the victims of harassment, discrimination and persecution the Baron and his men, and while many Zefiro accepted this behaviour, there was one member of the clan that would. A sorceress named Cynthia von Doom who had witnessed her people persecuted and harassed for decades cast a spell in an attempt to give her magical powers to fight for her people. The spell was unsuccessful however it summoned a power demon known as Mephisto. Cynthia made a deal with the demon, promising her soul in order to gain the power of Mephisto. Once Cynthia gained her new power, she went into the village in an attempt to fight back against the Baron and its men. While successful, it also came at the cost of Cynthia accidentally killing many of the children of the village, sadden by her faults she renounced her power and was killed by the village’s soldiers. Cynthia’s body was left for dead until it was discovered by her husband Werner, in her last dying breathe she begs her husband to keep their son safe.
