Age: 52
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Ioan Gruffudd (Welsh: [ˈjɔan ˈɡrɪfɪð]; /ˈjoʊɑːn ˈɡrɪfɪθ/; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh-American actor. He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. He was first noted for his portrayal of Harold Lowe in Titanic (1997) and for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the Hornblower series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in King Arthur (2004), Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in Fantastic Four (2005) and its sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), William Wilberforce in Amazing Grace (2006), Tony Blair in W. (2008), and Adam Lockwood in Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ioan Gruffudd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ioan Gruffudd
Mern IX Gardener
for Mern IX Gardener in Fire & Blood: The Dragon's Landing
Suggested by mr95
"A new realm is not built in a day — it is burned into being." The story opens on the isle of Dragonstone, where Aegon Targaryen — Lord of the island fortress and last scion of old Valyrian blood in the west — gazes upon the crudely drawn map he has painted of the Seven Kingdoms. For years he has dreamed of uniting what no man has ever unified. With his two sister-wives, Visenya and Rhaenys, and their three dragons, he lands on the mainland with a modest host and proclaims himself King of All Westeros. One by one the petty kingdoms react: some kneel, some defy. The Gardener kings of the Reach and the Lannister lords of the Rock forge an alliance and march a great army of half a million men to crush the upstart. At the Field of Fire, Aegon and both his sisters ride their dragons simultaneously for the first and last time in the war, unleashing a cataclysm of dragonfire. The Gardener dynasty is extinguished, the Lannisters submit. In the east, Visenya flies alone on Vhagar to the Eyrie, where a child-king and his regent mother yield without a drop of blood. The film closes with the raising of the Targaryen banner over newly-named King's Landing and Aegon's coronation beneath the open sky.
