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Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama. Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she became famous for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992). In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Late Night (2019), and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). Other notable film credits include the Harry Potter series (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Cruella (2021), and Matilda the Musical (2022). Her television credits include Wit (2001), Angels in America (2003), The Song of Lunch (2010), King Lear (2018) and Years and Years (2019). She portrayed Mrs. Lovett in a Lincoln Center production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2014. Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children's books.
After Sinestro's death, Hal Jordan leaves Earth to join the rest of the Corps to find out what happened to his old friend and mentor. Burdened with grief, Hal makes rash decisions, putting the Guardians and other Lanterns on their toes. Tired of following orders and seeing the Guardians do nothing after their best member is gone, demonstrating how dispensable they all are, Hal decides to act on his own. However, he is not alone, with other members of the Corps following him. This leads to a discovery the Guardians knew and withheld from the Corps members: Sinestro did not die; he actually deserted. With the discovery that his mentor and friend had betrayed them, Hal learns the truth about Sinestro, revealing that he was not the man he thought he was, the iron-fisted tyrant who ruled his sector, especially his home planet Korugar, and was feared as a dictator. With a new ring, Sinestro goes to Oa to overthrow the Guardians, whom he considers ineffective in maintaining order in the galaxy. He destroys the power battery on Oa, leaving the Green Lanterns at their mercy in the universe. He believes that true strength and order, which the universe so desperately needs, come from fear. Now Hal must confront his mentor and friend, a task that will be anything but easy.
