Age: 30
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Paul Colm Michael Mescal (/ˈmɛskəl/ MESS-kəl; born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor. Born in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and then performed in plays in Dublin theatres. He rose to fame with his role in the miniseries Normal People (2020), earning a BAFTA TV Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Mescal progressed to film acting with roles in the psychological dramas The Lost Daughter (2021) and God's Creatures (2022). His starring roles as a troubled father in Aftersun (2022) and a mysterious neighbour in All of Us Strangers (2023) earned him nominations for BAFTA Film Awards in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award for the former. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in a 2022 revival of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Mescal expanded to big-budget films with a leading role in the historical action film Gladiator II (2024).
Paul Mescal
SCOTTY
for SCOTTY in STAR TREK: INFINITE FRONTIER
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STAR TREK: INFINITE FRONTIER Synopsis: When the Enterprise responds to a colony where every inhabitant remembers a different version of history, Captain Tiberius Kirk (Glen Powell) and his crew uncover a horrifying evolution of an old enemy: a Singularity Borg Collective that no longer assimilates bodies - it assimilates possibilities, harvesting the unrealized versions of who each person could have become. As the crew journeys through impossible realities - a Glass Planet, an Empty Galaxy, and mirror Enterprise Crew occupying the same space - they are each offered a perfect alternate life: Kirk a universe without failure, Spock a mind without contradiction, McCoy a world without death. But when freedom means never having to choose, a flawless existence becomes the ultimate trap. Guided by Seven of Nine (Anya Taylor-Joy), a woman who escaped the Borg physically but not philosophically, and Uhura (Zendaya) - who discovers the Borg hiding inside language itself - the crew uncovers the Collective's one weakness: contradiction. Meanwhile, Admiral Marcus (Rebecca Ferguson) demands the destruction of the Borg's dimensional aperture at any cost, forcing Kirk to choose between institutional logic and the messy, uncertain freedom that defines humanity. Facing Borg Prime (Bill Skarsgård) - a calm, compassionate distributed intelligence - and its Shadow Commander (Ed Skrein), a hunter assembled from every fighting style it has consumed, Kirk and Spock must enter the Singularity itself and ask a question no algorithm can optimize: "What would you choose if no one could choose for you?" The Borg don't want to destroy the crew. They want to relieve them of the burden of choice. The crew's answer will shatter the Collective - and redefine what it means to be free.
