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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.

In 1942, Captain America and Bucky Barnes were summoned by president Franklin D. Roosevelt to investigate a series of ships sinking in the Sargasso Sea, where they meet the Sub-Mariner, an Atlantean prince who vowed to wreak vengeance on all surface dwellers. Meanwhile, a scientist named Phineas T. Horton showed off to the press his latest invention: an android named the Human Torch. The fiery android escaped and adopted a young orphan named Thomas Raymond, who worked in a circus under the name of Toro. Thru various circumstances, Captain America and Bucky alongside Namor the Sub-Mariner meets the Human Torch and Toro and team dup to fight the Red Skull and Arnim Zola and prevent them from invading Manhattan.

