Age: 30
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Paul Colm Michael Mescal (/ˈmɛskəl/ MESS-kəl; born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor. Born in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and then performed in plays in Dublin theatres. He rose to fame with his role in the miniseries Normal People (2020), earning a BAFTA TV Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Mescal progressed to film acting with roles in the psychological dramas The Lost Daughter (2021) and God's Creatures (2022). His starring roles as a troubled father in Aftersun (2022) and a mysterious neighbour in All of Us Strangers (2023) earned him nominations for BAFTA Film Awards in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award for the former. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in a 2022 revival of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Mescal expanded to big-budget films with a leading role in the historical action film Gladiator II (2024).
The Nova Corps is gone — wiped out in the fallout of The Silence, and erased from memory by the House of Worlds. But something — someone — survived. Richard Rider, a young Earth-born recruit who had only just begun his training, wakes up stranded in the void. The Xandarian Worldmind — the vast AI consciousness of the Nova Corps — lives only in his head, glitching and overwhelmed. The film follows Richard as he journeys across ruined remnants of star systems, hunted by Void Remnants (echoes of destroyed timelines), while trying to find a way back to Earth... or what's left of it. But Earth is not what it was. And neither is Richard. He is no longer a trainee. He is the last Nova.
