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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.
After the world is consumed by a volcanic winter, the last flicker of civilization gathers around a massive Generator in the frozen ruins of the north. New London is born—not from hope, but from necessity. Tasked with keeping the city alive, a reluctant leader known only as The Captain navigates a brutal landscape of famine, fear, and rebellion. As coal runs low and temperatures drop to inhuman depths, they must decide who lives, who works, and who is left to die. Haunted by loss and pressured by rising political factions—the zealous Order, the defiant Londoners, the desperate masses—The Captain fights to preserve both the city and their own humanity. But in a world where warmth is power and dissent is treason, survival demands impossible choices. Frostpunk is a bleak, political survival drama about the collapse of morality under the weight of leadership—and what happens when saving the future means destroying everything you once believed in.
