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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter. In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Robert Russell / Cypher
for Robert Russell / Cypher in Midnight Shroud
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Midnight Shroud is a 2026 American science fiction action martial arts film and the first installment in the Midnight Shroud franchise. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the first film in the Global Ninja Warrior Universe. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Chad Stahelski and Zack Snyder, the film stars Rina Sawayama, Michael Jai White, Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, and Jimmy Wong as the Midnight Shroud, alongside Anna Akana, Kelsey Grammer, Jeremy Renner, Mads Mikkelsen, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Yeoh, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. In the film, a team of five heroic ninjas—Phantom Ronin, Silver Viper, Cypher, Nightshade, and their leader Vanguard travel across the world to dismantle the operations of their biggest enemy, the Eclipse Clan, to prevent them from endangering innocent lives. Midnight Shroud had its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 6th, 2026, and was released on October 8th;it was a box-office success, grossing $813 million worldwide, and received generally positive reviews from critics, audiences, and fans of the martial arts genre, citing its story, themes, visuals, action sequences, performances, and the emotional weight compared to previous martial arts films. A sequel is in development as well as a prequel intended to focus on Phantom Ronin's origin story.
