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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Wanda and Pietro were born in Wundagore inside the dungeon of the mountain of Chton to Magneto and Magda. Magda and her children fled, but Chton formed a bond with Wanda, making her a Earth's dimensional energy, adding the ability to cast spells to her mutant abilities. Then they grew up with gypsies Django and Marya Maximoff. Later, the camp was attacked, the two were forced to flee and joined Magneto. Magneto sent them at Wolverine and Sabretooth. They convinced them that Magneto was evil and he invaded the camp to get them back. When Magneto disappeared, they both left Magneto's team and joined Fury, Hawkeye became their partner. Wanda took lessons from Agatha Harkness to learn magic. Thanks to her abilities, she improved the morale of the team, learned to treat and heal any injuries and diseases, and how inflict diseases on enemies. Quicksilver convinced her to create a utopian alternate reality where all the heroes' wishes would come true. Humanity became minority and mutants led by Magneto are the rulers of the world, everyone was happy. Sensible Layla Miller, saw through the illusion, restored memories of most of the heroes, when they all realized what Quicksilver had done, Magneto charged and killed him, Wanda revived him and in a rage said three fateful words: No more mutants, thereby depriving 90% of mutants of their abilities. Wanda disappeared soon after and was presumed dead for a long time. This day went down in history as M-Day - the mutant genocide.
