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Sir Michael Caine CBE (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive South London accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film icon. As of February 2017, the films in which Caine has appeared have grossed over $7.8 billion worldwide. Often playing a Cockney, Caine made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in British films such as Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Alfie. His roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), Sleuth (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), The Eagle Has Landed (1976) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He earned his second Academy Award nomination for Sleuth and achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) earning him his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Caine is also known for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), and for his comedic roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Miss Congeniality (2000), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Secondhand Lions (2003). He received his second Golden Globe Award for Little Voice (1998). In 1999, he received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a sympathetic doctor in The Cider House Rules. He portrayed a British journalist in Vietnam in The Quiet American (2002), earning his sixth Oscar nomination, and appeared in Alfonso Cuaron's dystopian drama film Children of Men (2006). Caine portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012). He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014) and Tenet (2020). He also appeared in the heist thriller film Now You See Me (2013), the action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), the Italian drama Youth (2015) and the crime film King of Thieves (2018). Caine officially confirmed his retirement from acting on 13 October 2023 after The Great Escaper (2023).
In a distant future, the desert planet Arrakis is the sole source of the Spice Melange, the most valuable substance in the universe. When the Emperor decrees that House Atreides will take control of Arrakis from their mortal enemies, House Harkonnen, young Paul Atreides is torn from his lush homeworld and thrust into a web of political treachery. The handover is a trap: the Harkonnens, with secret Imperial aid, slaughter the Atreides forces and kill Paul's father, Duke Leto. Fleeing into the deep desert with his mother Jessica, Paul finds refuge among the Fremen, the planet's fierce native inhabitants. As he masters their ways and consumes the Spice, dormant powers awaken within him—visions of possible futures, terrible and vast. Embraced as a prophesied leader, Paul transforms from a reluctant heir into a messianic warlord. He leads the Fremen in a savage uprising against the Harkonnens, avenges his father, and seizes control of Arrakis. But victory demands a terrible price: to secure the imperial throne, Paul must marry Princess Irulan, a political union that betrays his love for the Fremen warrior Chani. The boy who never wanted power becomes Emperor, trapped in the same cycle of duty and compromise that destroyed his father, while Chani—pregnant with his child—watches with hollow eyes.
