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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.

Rupert Friend

Edgar Ross
for Edgar Ross in Red Dead Redemption II
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Red Dead Redemption II follows Arthur Morgan, a hardened outlaw and enforcer for the Van der Linde gang, as he navigates the collapse of the Old West in 1899. Alongside gang leader Dutch van der Linde and a cast of complex criminals, Arthur struggles to survive in an increasingly hostile world where law and order are tightening their grip. The narrative explores themes of loyalty, redemption, and mortality as the gang's carefully laid plans unravel and internal tensions threaten to tear them apart. Arthur finds himself caught between his brutal nature and an emerging conscience, particularly through his relationships with fellow gang members and his encounters with those he's wronged. Set across a vast, meticulously detailed American frontier, the game weaves Arthur's personal journey with the gang's desperate attempts to pull off one final score before everything crumbles. As federal agents close in and the gang fractures under pressure, Arthur must confront the consequences of his choices and decide what kind of man he wants to be in his final days. The story is a tragic meditation on the death of an era and the possibility of redemption in a world that offers none.

