Age: 56
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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
Roshar is a storm-ravaged world where fierce tempests shape life and civilization. Centuries after the fall of the Knights Radiant, their mystical Shardblades and Shardplate remain central to warfare, with kingdoms and wars fought for their power. One such war unfolds on the Shattered Plains, where Kaladin, a former medical apprentice turned slave, struggles to protect his fellow soldiers in a senseless conflict where ten armies fight a single foe. Meanwhile, Brightlord Dalinar Kholin, a commander haunted by visions of ancient times, questions his sanity and the meaning of his life, drawn to an ancient text, The Way of Kings. Across the ocean, a young woman named Shallan, seeking mentorship under Dalinar’s niece Jasnah, a renowned scholar and heretic, pursues hidden motives as her studies hint at lost secrets of the Knights Radiant and the war's true cause. Together, their stories unfold in The Way of Kings, the opening book of the Stormlight Archive, as the ancient oaths call for the Knights Radiant to rise once more: “Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination.”
