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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 Franklin Richards
for Dr Franklin Richards in Fantastic Four
Suggested by mrworldwide
Set in the 1960's, The Fantastic Four are a well established superhero team on earth, having had their powers for a good while now. The leader of the team, Reed Richards is constantly making advancements in the field of science and technology, by coming up with new ways to revolutionize the world as it is. He is accompanied on his journeys by his Wife, Sue and her younger brother Johnny as well as Reed's old college best friend, Ben Grimm, who also possess super human abilities. Reed is a curious man, constantly trying to discover new things in the world he lives in, in his search to learn more about his universe and others, he discovered the negative zone. Reed creates a portal that connects his world to the negative zone and with a little persuading manages to get Sue, Johnny and Ben to accompany him as he goes in to discover what lies beyond the portal. When they get to the negative zone they soon discover it was far more dangerous than they were expecting and end being stuck there while being hunted by the evil Annihilus. Reed must figure out a way to reconnect the portal from the negative zone to his own world in order to save him and his family. Once they finally defeat Annihilus, they are able to return to earth, however since time works differently in the negative zone they find themselves in 2024, having to now fit in to a brand new world and galaxy than the one they had once lived in.
