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Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
After reaching the age of 21, Tony's parents were killed in a car accident. Tony inherited Stark Industries, a unique Mega-Conglomerate that was a major supplier of militaristic equipment and weapons to the US. His 1st project as CEO was to buy out the network of companies and branches of the manufacturer that made his parents' car and was responsible for their death because it produced cars with an obviously defective brake system. He participated in rebuilding the system, thus preventing similar tragedies and saving thousands of lives. He hired Pepper Potts. During the war in North-West Pakistan, Tony Stark was present at a test of a newly developed weapon. On the way back, his convoy was attacked and he himself was wounded by his own mine, which caused several shrapnel near his heart. He is later captured by a local warrior. The terrorists force him to assemble a similar weapon to conquer the entire Far East region. Tony agrees, he doesn't want something like that to fall into their hands, he sabotages the whole project. With the help of Dr. Yinsen, he assembled a mini reactor suit and escapes. At a press conference, he announces that he is giving up weapons. learns that terrorists are attacking Jinsen's village with Jericho missiles, from Stane, flies to Pakistan in a suit and stops them. The success of the operation ended the long-running search for bin Laden, who is responsible for 9/11. Potts gets evidence on Stene. Iron Man and Iron Monger fight and Stane dies.
