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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

Grand Inquisitor
for Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars: Mace Windu
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Mace Windu is a TV Show with 6 Episodes and it’s about How Mace Windu Survived The Attacks of Anakin Skywalker and the Sith and how he’s surviving now with many threats like an uprising Darth Vader and he finds Master Yoda for help, he asks for guidance and undergoes training in Dagobah as he is in a coma for almost 15 years (After events of Revenge of the Sith). His eye is gone, and he’s badly scarred but he is a free man when he wakes up. He looks for his lightsaber on the table and beside him. Darth Vader has kept Windu’s lightsaber as a trophy in his castle along with many more. He takes the help from allies such as Jedi Master Gwilym Filch who survived order 66 and townsfolk to get to Mustafar for his lightsaber and to confront Vader. Darth Vader senses this and calls many inquisitors to destroy Windu but he’s still strong in the force and knows what Obi-Wan Kenobi (who is back in hiding) taught Anakin. Windu gets through storm troopers and inquisitors then finally meets Vader and duels with him. Windu manages to almost defeat him but Vader is getting the upper hand, Windu escapes with his lightsaber and now is being hunted, Grand Admiral Thrawn is involved now as well, What will happen next?! … All episodes directed by James Cameron