
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).

During the destruction of the planet Krypton, Jor-El and Lara Lor Van send their child off to planet earth for his safety, all the while the planet is getting attacked by a vicious enemy. Kal-El lands in a field in Kansas and is picked up by Jonathan and Martha Kent. At age 16, he finds out he was adopted, and that he is not of this earth. Then, five years later, a young Clark Kent, recently moving to metropolis finds himself looking for a job. He rescues an airplane and stops a bank robbery, leading to reporter Lois Lane to write a paper about him, dubbing him “Superman”. Clark finds a job at The Daily Planet


