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Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Rupert Friend
The Grand Inquisitor
for The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars: Kestis
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FIRST SEASON: 5 years after the formation of the Galactic Empire and the Great Jedi Purge, former Padawan Cal Kestis is discovered by the Inquisitorius after saving a friend. Now on the run, Cal joins former Jedi Knight Cere Junda and Latero pilot Greez Dritus on their quest to find a Holocron containing a list of Force-sensitives before the Empire does. SECOND SEASON: Cal Kestis has built a new life for himself with the crew of the Stinger Mantis. Together, they've taken down Inquisitors and bounty hunters. But when their mission goes awry and they are forced to escape, they encounter Fret, a former stormtrooper that has defected from the Empire, who seeks to help the crew in their fight against the Empire. THIRD SEASON: Jedi Knight Cal Kestis and his friends have parted ways, the young Jedi continuing the fight against the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. However, after a job on Coruscant gone wrong, Cal discovers Dagan Gera, a former Jedi from the High Republic era preserved for over 200 years, and must reunite the crew of the Stinger Mantis alongside freelance mercenary Bode Akuna to race against Gera's army of Bedlam Raiders to find a lost planet hidden behind a nebula.
