Gerard Butler

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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).

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General Zod

for General Zod in Man of Steel

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Man of Steel

After the destruction of his home planet Kal El is sent to Earth as a baby where he is raised by an Earth couple named Martha and Johnathan Kent. After years of not knowing who he truly is Kal now named Clark is given the pod that brought him to Earth by Martha after the death of Johnathan. With the pod he manages to find a fortress of solitude left to him by his birth parents. Meanwhile another Kryptonian by the name of Zod who survived the destruction of his and Clark's planet Krypton plans to terraform Earth and create a new Krypton. Throughout the movie Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet a local news station in the city of Metropolis, falls in love with his coworker Lois Lane, and tries to convince the world that he isn't a threat. The movie ends with a huge fight between Clark and Zod which ends in Clark snapping Zod's neck.

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