
Age: 56
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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).

Inspired by characters from fairytales, myth, and legend. Told from the perspective of different people, Sherwood takes place in the realm of Encantarome. A world where the mythical is reality. The stakes are high in this tale. A lost princess navigates the realm in search of safety with a stranger. An orphaned girl trapped in a marriage with the son of her family's killer. The princess of a southern kingdom journeys north in search of the home she never had. And a band of outlaws finds that their troubles have grown direr as a great threat to the realm approaches. This is a tale that will test the limits of all those involved. This is a tale that will strike those who are soft-hearted.
