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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter. In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The movie opens in the Victorian Era as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, work on a very perculiar case where a moonstone vanishes from the British Museum without a trace. Sherlock eventually deduces that Jack Dawkins is responsible for the robbery. As it turns out the Artful Dodger robbed the gem under the order of his boss Bill Sykes. Bill Sykes is revealed to have made a deal with Sherlock's arch nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. But Sherlock finds out from the Lord of Hell, Satan that Moriarty wants the moonstone because it has unspeakabling evil magic. Then Sherlock wakes up and decides to stop Moriarty from getting the moonstone. Moriarty uses the moonstone to cause chaos. Sherlock thinks it is over until the Artful Dodger reveals that he found a sunstone during one of the robberies and gave it to Oliver Twist. Oliver then proceeds to hand Sherlock the sunstone telling him it will help defeat Moriarty. Sherlock is amazed at the power of the sunstone. Sherlock then defeats Moriarty who is sent to the underworld. The movie ends with Sherlock and Irene deciding to adopt Oliver Twist. We then cut to the credits.
