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Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Rupert Friend
Anton Arcane
for Anton Arcane in Green & Red: Vol 2
Suggested by justincasts
An anthology series following characters tied to the Green and the Red as they navigate their identities and deal with threats to the realms they are called to protect. Vol 2 follows Buddy Baker, Animal Man, who uncovers the truth about his role as protector of the Red. In truth, hai daughter Maxine was meant to be the avatar all along. Animal Man and Bronze Tiger investigates a series of animal killings that lead him to the deranged Anton Arcane, who is obsessed not just with corrupting wildlife with rot but with kidnapping and using Maxine to unleash rot into the Red. In the end, Buddy will defeat and kill Anton, sending his soul to hell. His choice will haunt him and drive him to consider retiring, which places him in conflict with the forces of the Red itself.
