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Timothy Leonard Spall (born February 27, 1957) is an English actor and presenter. He became a household name in the UK after appearing as Barry Spencer Taylor in the 1983 ITV comedy-drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Spall performed in Secrets & Lies (1996), and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Subsequently, he starred in many films, including Hamlet (1996), Still Crazy (1998), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Enchanted (2007), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), The Damned United (2009), The King's Speech (2010), Ginger and Rosa (2012), Denial (2016), and The Party (2017). He voiced Nick, a cynical, portly rat in Chicken Run (2000). He played Peter Pettigrew in five Harry Potter films, from Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Spall has collaborated with director Mike Leigh, making six films together: Home Sweet Home (1982), Life is Sweet (1990), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), and Mr. Turner (2014). Spall won great acclaim for his performance in the last of these for his portrayal as J. M. W. Turner winning him the Best Actor Award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He starred in the television documentary Timothy Spall: ...at Sea (2010–2012) and in 2019 he appeared as Lord Arthur Wallington in the 6-part BBC Cold War drama Summer of Rockets.
In the colorful and chaotic world of the Glade of Dreams, balance is everything and that balance is about to be shattered. When the ancient villain Mr. Dark escapes from his prison in the Shadow Realm and begins draining the very imagination that holds the world together, entire lands collapse into nightmares. Forests lose their color, music fades into silence, and the dreams of every creature slowly turn into fear. With the Council of the Polokus powerless and divided, an unlikely hero rises: Rayman, a fearless but reckless wanderer with no arms, no legs, and more heart than sense. Alongside the eternally anxious but loyal Globox, the wise and radiant fairy Betilla, and the endlessly sarcastic guide Murfy, Rayman is thrust into a journey across broken kingdoms, living paintings, underwater ruins, and impossible floating cities. As Mr. Dark’s shadow spreads, Rayman discovers that the true source of his power isn’t strength or magic, but the ability to inspire hope in a world that has forgotten how to dream. The fate of imagination itself now rests in the hands of a hero who wasn’t supposed to exist.
