Age: 82
male
John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and vocal artist. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which he also voiced the ent, Treebeard. He also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. Additionally, he provided the voices of Cassim in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Tobias in the computer game Freelancer. He is also the narrator for the TV show Wildboyz. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Rhys-Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Thursday Next tries to build a quiet life after her last case, but the world around her starts to fracture. A political storm rises. A lost Shakespeare play reappears at the perfect moment. The powerful Goliath Corporation moves in the shadows. A new threat targets Thursday’s family. Reality feels unstable and someone is rewriting lives. To fight back, Thursday pushes deeper into fiction than ever. She learns to “bookjump,” entering stories without machines. Inside the vast universe of literature she meets Jurisfiction, a secret police force that protects the order of books. Miss Havisham becomes her volatile mentor as Thursday trains, solves crises inside classic novels, and uncovers traces of a hidden enemy manipulating memories. As pressure mounts in the real world and inside fiction, Thursday races to expose the conspiracy behind the political rise of a dangerous figure, the stolen manuscript at the center of the chaos, and the force trying to erase parts of her life. She crosses between worlds, evades time-agents and corporate hunters, and chases the truth buried in her own memories. The story builds toward a showdown that tests Thursday’s loyalty to her family, her world, and the fragile boundary between fiction and reality.
