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Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (/ˌdʒiːəˈmɑːti/JEE-ə-MAH-tee; born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. After studying acting at the Yale School of Drama, he performed in numerous theatrical productions. Giamatti debuted on Broadway, portraying Ezra Chater in the Tom Stoppard play Arcadia (1995). Later that year, he played the Rev. Donald "Streaky" Bacon in the David Hare play Racing Demon (1995). He returned to theatre in the revivals of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997) and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1999). Giamatti's breakout film role was in Private Parts (1997), followed by roles in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Man on the Moon (1999). He won acclaim for his leading roles in American Splendor (2003), Sideways (2004), Win Win (2011), and Private Life (2018). He has also acted in Planet of the Apes (2001), The Illusionist (2006), Fred Claus (2007), The Ides of March (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Love & Mercy (2014), and Straight Outta Compton (2015). He has earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Joe Gould in Cinderella Man (2005) and Best Actor for playing a disgruntled teacher in The Holdovers (2023). On television, Giamatti played the role in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), earning him acclaim and several awards, including a Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe. He starred as U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades Jr. in the Showtime television series Billions (2016–2023). He earned Emmy nominations for his roles as Ben Bernanke in the HBO film Too Big to Fail (2011) and Harold Levinson in the ITV series Downton Abbey (2013). In the Netflix anthology series Black Mirror episode Eulogy (2025), he played a grieving lover. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Giamatti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Paul Giamatti
Otto Octavius
for Otto Octavius in Marvel's Spider-Man - Episode 9: Up the Water Spout...
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Peter informs Yuri that the Devil's Breath is a potential bioweapon created by Oscorp. Peter calls MJ, and arranges a dinner at her house. On the way, Otto calls and tells Peter to postpone dinner and go to the lab. In the lab, Peter sees Otto testing the prosthetics, but failing, which makes him furious, cursing at Norman. Peter asks, and Otto tells the story that they were friends and partners in college, and that together they founded Oscorp. They broke up after Osborn started a genetics project that Otto found unethical. Peter fixes the prosthesis, and Otto says the next step is to build a neural interface. Peter offers to help, even without getting paid. Otto thanks him, and Peter goes to dinner with MJ. Peter starts cooking dinner, and MJ tells him that he went to one of Li's properties, where she found Tombstone. She discovered equipment builds for Li. They talk about the files, and MJ suggests they become partners. An alert about Charles Standish, CFO of Oscorp arrives, and Peter heads there. Arriving at the building, Peter defeats the Demons who face the police. Climbing up to the penthouse, Spider defeats all the demons and talks with Standish, who says that the Demons were after financial records related to Devil's Breath, and that it is a secret project that Norman invests a lot of money in. Spider discovers that the files are copied to a secure server, and that they are looking for Dr. Delaney. A helicopter attacks them, but Peter saves Standish.
