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Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and film director. He is the recipient of three IFTA Awards, two BIFA's, and a Primetime Emmy Award and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award, five times for a Golden Globe Award and once for an Academy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson. He is best known for his performance as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films (2005–2010). He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost film. He won an Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).
Brendan Gleeson
Friar Tuck
for Friar Tuck in Robin Hood and the House of Plantagenet (TV-Series)
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In early 1191, with King Richard away on the Third Crusade, England is left in the hands of a fractured regency. Exploiting the absence, Queen Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine secures a return for her exiled son, Prince John. His arrival ignites a powder keg; as the regents William de Longchamp and Hugh de Puiset descend into open conflict, John moves swiftly to seize the crown. But the coup is no accident of opportunity. Behind John’s ambition stands Eleanor, the true "Puppet Master." Having previously manipulated Richard into betraying his father, Henry II, Eleanor found her eldest son too difficult to control once he took the throne. By engineering Richard's departure for the Holy Land, she cleared the board for John—a far more malleable pawn—to take his place. However, a rival player emerges to challenge Eleanor’s control: Alys of France, the former mistress of the late Henry II. Once betrothed to Richard, Alys was discarded when Eleanor orchestrated his marriage to Berengaria of Navarre to sideline her. Now, seeking the crown she was twice denied, Alys maneuvers to take her place beside John. As the Prince is torn between his mother’s calculated dominance and Alys’s vengeful ambition, the common people—led by the outlaw Robin Hood—become the collateral damage of a dynasty at war with itself.
