Age: 49
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Carice Anouk van Houten, born on September 5, 1976, is a Dutch stage and film actress. One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and Temple, a TV show for Sky opposite Mark Strong, which has been picked up for a second season. Her Dutch-language feature Love Life, gained her further critical acclaim and broke box office records in her native Holland. Her next film Happy Housewive won her a record breaking 5th Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival and was voted 'Best Dutch Actress of All Time' by the Dutch audience. Other awards include Best Actress for Black Butterflies at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Best Performance award for Instinct at the Les Arcs Film Festival 2019. Her credits include Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders and Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the Jesse Owens biopic, Race, with Jason Sudekis and Jeremy Irons and voiced a character in The Simpsons. She can also be seen in Brian de Palma's Domino and in Brimstone, opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Kit Harrington, and The Glass Room, with Claes Bang. She played a leading role in Halina Reijn's directorial feature debut Instinct, opposite Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), which won the Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno Film Festival 2019. Instinct is the first outing for the Carice and Halina's production banner, Man Up.
Carice van Houten
Vera Konstantin
for Vera Konstantin in Marvel Television's The Punisher: Circle of Blood
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Set in the chaotic aftermath of Secret Wars, The Punisher: Circle of Blood drags Frank Castle back into the blood-soaked streets of New York. His return is sparked by the wrath of Ma Gnucci, who places a massive bounty on his head and ignites a city-wide gang war. As lethal copycats tarnish his name, a fierce jurisdictional battle erupts between local law enforcement, led by Officer Powell of the Anti-Vigilante Task Force (AVTF), and the federal Department of Damage Control (DODC) overseen by Agent Cleary. Frank must navigate this bureaucratic crossfire while dealing with a tense confrontation with Harlem's protector, Luke Cage. The stakes grow significantly darker when Frank uncovers a brutal, internationally protected human trafficking syndicate. With red tape paralyzing both Cleary and Powell, CIA agent Dinah Madani secretly feeds Frank intel to dismantle the untouchable elites. In response, the syndicate hires sociopathic assassin Benjamin Poindexter (Bullseye), leading to an uncompromising, hyper-violent game of cat-and-mouse in the city's underbelly. Ultimately, Frank transitions from hunter to hunted. A rogue CIA cell attempts to weaponize him as a state-sanctioned assassin. When Frank violently rejects them, the agency forms a dark alliance with the remnants of the Italian mob, branding him a domestic terrorist. Recognizing the systemic corruption at play, Powell and Cleary form a covert alliance, turning a blind eye to let Frank eradicate the rogue cell. The ideological climax arrives when Matt Murdock (Daredevil) steps in, desperately trying to stop Frank's relentless slaughter of government operatives. This forces a final, epic clash between the law's boundaries and Frank's uncompromising brand of lethal justice, brutally testing the limits of morality and vengeance in the street-level MCU.
