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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.
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Spider-Man Begins is a 2024 American dystopian superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man. Produced by Marvel Studios and Legendary Pictures, it is the first installment in the Spider-Man Multiverse, and the first R-rated Spider-Man film overall. The film was directed by Neill Blomkamp from a screenplay by Sam Raimi and Marc Webb; Spider-Man Begins stars Gabriel Luna as Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man alongside Jeffrey Wright, Topher Grace, Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Donald Glover, Anjelica Huston, and Michael Shannon as Peter Parker. In the film, teenager Miguel O'Hara suffers an accident during an experiment and discovers his spider-like abilities. As an adult, he investigates the crimes of scientist Walker Sloan and realizes that he turned an alternate Eddie Brock into a monster called Anti-Venom. Spider-Man Begins opened in theaters on January 19th, 2024; the film was a financial success, grossing $874 million against a $395 million and a break-even point of $200 million. It was also well-received by critics and audiences, who praised its darker themes compared to previous Spider-Man films, as well as the performances, story, action sequences, visual effects, story, Blomkamp's direction, and the score. A sequel entitled Spider-Man into the Dark Multiverse was released on December 6th, 2026.
