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Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor. Butler began his career on television, first in roles on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, most notably on Zoey 101 (2007–2008), and later on teen dramas, including recurring parts on The CW's Life Unexpected (2010–2011) and Switched at Birth (2011–2012). He gained recognition for starring in The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014) and The Shannara Chronicles (2016–2017). Butler made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of The Iceman Cometh and portrayed Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Butler gained wider prominence for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), for which he won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. He has since starred as Gale Cleven in the war drama miniseries Masters of the Air (2024) and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the science fiction film Dune: Part Two (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Austin Butler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Detective Eli Mercer is the kind of cop every city wants—disciplined, intelligent, and relentless. After a decorated career built on solving impossible cases, Eli is assigned a volatile new partner, Jax Rowan, a reckless rule-breaker whose instincts are as dangerous as they are effective. The two clash instantly, but together they begin taking down criminals no one else can touch. When a series of murders connected to stolen police evidence rocks the city, Eli and Jax are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the department. As the case grows darker, Eli begins suffering blackouts, missing hours, and hearing witnesses insist only one detective was ever at the scene. Security footage fails whenever Jax appears, and evidence logs reveal signatures from both men written in the same hand. With Internal Affairs closing in and enemies on every side, Eli turns to police psychologist Dr. Mara Voss to uncover what happened during a failed undercover mission years earlier—the night his mind fractured. Jax is not his partner, but the identity Eli created to survive: fearless, violent, and free from guilt. Now hunted by corrupt officers and a crime syndicate that knows his secret, Eli must confront the two halves of himself before they destroy each other. To expose the truth, he’ll need the control of Eli Mercer… and the chaos of Jax Rowan. In a city built on lies, the only partner he can trust is the one inside him.
