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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On.
The story follows Hank Pym, a scientist who, years ago, discovered Pym particles, capable of shrinking people. Inspired by his studies of ants, he created a suit that allowed him to change size and communicate with them, becoming the hero Ant-Man. This happy period comes to an end when his fiancée, Maria Trovaya, is murdered. Consumed by guilt for not protecting her, Hank abandons the suit and his heroic identity. In the present, Hank works with Vernon van Dyne, but must deal with Janet, Vernon's seductive and provocative daughter. When a news report reveals that a party at the van Dyne house was invaded by armed criminals, Hank doesn't hesitate to become Ant-Man again to save them. After the rescue, he believes he has definitively ended his career as a hero. However, SHIELD discovers his past as Ant-Man and blackmails him into facing a new threat: Harvey Rupert Elder, the Mole Man, a former colleague who plans to attack the surface seeking revenge. Even though he's forced to, Hank realizes he enjoys being Ant-Man again and decides to continue.
