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Shaun Parkes (born 9 February 1973) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Koop in Human Traffic and Izzy Buttons in The Mummy Returns. At 16, Parkes enrolled at Seltec College to study drama. Two years later, he was accepted into RADA. Having acted in both theatre and television support roles, Parkes made his breakthrough in the 1999 film Human Traffic. His work since then includes films such as Clubbed, The Mummy Returns, Things to Do Before You're 30 and the acclaimed Notes on a Scandal. Television work includes Lock, Stock..., Servants and Russell T Davies' Casanova and Doctor Who. Parkes continued to forge a career as a theatre actor. He has starred alongside David Threlfall and Neil Stuke in Joe Penhall's award-winning play Blue/Orange in the West End and in Kwame Kwei-Armah's Elmina's Kitchen and at Shakespeare's Globe as Aaron in Titus Andronicus. Parkes also starred as the lead in BBC Two's detective series Moses Jones, with a supporting cast that included Matt Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shaun Parkes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Season 1 — "No Rain" New Canaan City hasn't had a real rainstorm in nearly three years. Meteorologists call it a climate anomaly. Mayor Victor Bahl calls it an opportunity — water scarcity has made his family's infrastructure holdings worth billions. Only Eli Stone, 40s, a weathered, hawk-faced former civil rights lawyer turned street minister, insists it is something else: a reckoning. When he publicly declares before news cameras that "not a drop falls on this city until this house of corruption is torn down," he becomes overnight mockery — and overnight threat. The Bahls, led by the iron-willed Queen Isabeau Bahl, begin a systematic campaign to erase him. Season 2 — "The Prophets of Aharon" A forced showdown at the city's great civic arena — the Mount Karmel Stadium — between Eli and 450 of Isabeau's most powerful spiritual and political allies. A public contest of legitimacy. The fire that follows changes everything. But victory unmoors Eli in ways defeat never could. He flees into the desert outside the city, alone, suicidal, and utterly spent. Season 3 — "Still Small Voice" Eli's restoration in the wilderness. A mysterious figure — only ever called The Quiet One — feeds him, tends to him, and speaks to him in a voice that is barely above a whisper and yet fills the space entirely. Eli is given a commission he doesn't want and sent back to the city with new names on his lips: enemies to face and a successor to find. Season 4 — "The Vineyard" The Bahls' most brutal act yet — the judicial murder of an innocent man, Nathan Benet, for a plot of land Isabeau covets. Eli confronts Victor directly. The city begins to crack from within. Season 5 — "Ascending" Eli's final days. He moves through the city for the last time, anointing his successor Elias-Two (called simply Two), and walking toward something no camera can capture and no witness can fully explain. The rain finally comes.
