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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Kurt Russell
Jonathan Kent
for Jonathan Kent in Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2013)
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Five years into his public career, Superman has become the world’s greatest symbol of hope, inspiring people across the globe while struggling to balance his responsibilities with life at the Daily Planet. While Lois Lane investigates encrypted files tied to Krypton and Jimmy Olsen chronicles Superman’s heroics, a mysterious object enters the solar system. It is Brainiac, an ancient artificial intelligence that preserves civilizations by shrinking and collecting them before their destruction. Following Brainiac into space, Superman discovers a massive archive containing stolen worlds from across the galaxy. Among them is Kandor, the lost Kryptonian capital. Brainiac reveals he studied Krypton for centuries and preserved parts of its culture before the planet’s demise. Exploring the archive, Clark discovers messages from Jor-El that force him to confront the pain of losing a world he never truly knew. As Brainiac prepares to add Earth to his collection, Superman realizes that heritage alone does not define who he is. Brainiac launches a global assimilation of Earth, forcing Superman into a desperate battle across Metropolis and aboard the alien vessel. While Lois and Jimmy expose Brainiac’s hidden systems on Earth, Superman frees Kandor and destroys the collector’s ship. During the crisis, a Kryptonian escape pod recovered from the vessel opens, revealing Kara Zor-El, a survivor from Krypton who expected to find her infant cousin and is shocked to discover him fully grown. Together they help secure Brainiac’s defeat, though fragments of his consciousness escape into digital networks across the cosmos. In the aftermath, Superman embraces Earth as his true home while welcoming Kara as the first living connection to his lost world and beginning her journey on Earth. Post-Credits: In Paris, Diana Prince watches coverage of Superman’s victory and the appearance of a second Kryptonian. She quietly smiles and says, “The age of heroes has begun again.”
