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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations. He started his career in minor roles on and off-Broadway before making his Broadway debut in The Penny Wars (1969), followed by Borstal Boy (1970), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) and Moonchildren (1972). Woods' early film roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and The Gambler (1974). He starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep. He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for his role as journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Notable film roles include Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Immediate Family (1989), The Hard Way (1991), Chaplin (1992), The Specialist (1994), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Another Day in Paradise (1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Jobs (2013). He served as an executive producer on Christopher Nolan's biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023). For his television roles, he is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying as D.J. in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. in the ABC film My Name Is Bill W. (1989). He has also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). He starred in the CBS legal series Shark (2006–2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has voiced roles for Hercules (1997), Recess: School's Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and Surf's Up (2007), as well as voicing himself once in The Simpsons (1993), and several times in Family Guy (2005–2016).

vengeance on mankind after they murdered his friend, Maria, and was created by Eggman's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Eggman also teams up with his recent companion, Agent Stone, and jewel-loving Rouge The Bat, who unbeknownst to them is a government spy sent to gather information on Eggman's whereabouts. When Sonic is framed and sent into captivity on Prison Island, new allies Amy Rose and Cream The Rabbit team up with the heroes to help free Sonic and stop Eggman from destroying Earth with a deadly weapon, the Eclipse Cannon, which is held on the Space Colony: ARK. To do so, they will have to collect the Chaos Emeralds and Master Emerald, which are scattered throughout Sonic's home world of Mobius and a mysterious floating island known as Angel Island. Also, to get to Eggman, they will have to sneak past the government and G.U.N. (Guardian Units of Nations) and infiltrate his top-secret pyramid base in Egypt and take a space shuttle to the ARK. But, Eggman won't the heroes get to him easily, and he sends Shadow and Rouge to interrupt their plans, as they are also on a search for the Chaos Emeralds so they can power the Eclipse Cannon. Can Sonic and his friends stop Eggman before his evil plans prevail, or will an even darker evil arise to stop them?
