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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
Major Davidson
for Major Davidson in James Bond: Marine Commando
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Streaming series, a prequel to the James Bond 007 films. S1 follows Bond in the Royal Marine Commandos, after his time in the Navy. Whilst there he connects with Alec Trevelyan, himself recently recruited, who helps James settle in to his new environment. Whilst Bond’s Roguish charm and unpredictability is there, creating tensions with superiors, he’s too valuable when it comes to the mission to be stood down. This conflict leads to his individuality being recognised elsewhere……. S2: James and Alec, recruited to the SBS, are involved in more increasingly covert and dangerous missions. Spectre and it’s many tributary organisations, such as Quantum are revealed as significant players in funding and initiating the military and terrorist threats to which our protagonist’s unit is assigned to nullify. In almost single-handedly thwarting a spectre agents attempt to destroy a British submarine with nuclear warheads aboard, James’ gets himself noticed…. S3: James Bond is assigned to shadow agent 006, Bill Fairbanks, at MI6. Fairbanks is not long from retirement, has seen and done it all, his attention to detail and impeccable intuition make him the perfect tutor and sounding board for James. Bill soon becomes a father figure to the new agent, orphaned as a boy. By the end of our story Bill is gone and Alec, having been under similar training has replaced him as 006. Bond is sent to win a game of poker, having been assigned the Codename that will come to define him…..007.
