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Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman of York in 17th century. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually embarks on a ship bound for London with a friend. When a storm causes the near deaths of Crusoe and his friend, Crusoe still goes on to set himself up as merchant on a ship leaving London. This trip is financially successful, and Crusoe plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly widow. The ship is seized by Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is enslaved to a potentate in Sallee. While on a fishing expedition, he and a slave boy break free and sail down the African coast. A kindly Portuguese captain picks them up, buys the slave boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes himself as a plantation owner and soon becomes successful. Eager for slave labor and its economic advantages, he embarks on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked off of the coast of Trinidad. Crusoe is onlyone survivor. Returns to the wreck for guns, powder, food, finds goats, build a shelter. 1660, he is ill, hallucinates that an angel visits, warning him to repent. Drinking tobacco-steeped rum, Crusoe realizes that God has delivered him from his earlier sins. He saved native and named him Friday. On December 19, 1686, Crusoe boards the ship to return to England. His widow friend has kept Crusoe’s money safe.
