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Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (Urdu pronunciation: [ɾɪzˌwɑːnˈɛɦˌməd̪]; born 1 December 1982) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named in the Time Listing of the most influential people in the world. After studying acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ahmed began his acting career with independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). He had his break-out role in Nightcrawler (2014), which led to roles in the 2016 big-budget films Jason Bourne and Rogue One. For starring as a young man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), Ahmed won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. He received another Emmy nomination in the same year for his guest role in Girls. He went on to play Carlton Drake in the superhero film Venom (2018) and a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama film Sound of Metal (2019). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He produced, co-wrote, and starred in Mogul Mowgli (2020), which earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. As a rapper, Ahmed is a member of the Swet Shop Boys and has earned critical acclaim with the hip hop albums Microscope and Cashmere and commercial success featuring in the Billboard 200 chart-topping Hamilton Mixtape, with his song "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" winning an MTV Video Music Award. His second studio album, The Long Goodbye, was accompanied by a short film of the same name, which won him the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. As an activist, Ahmed is known for his political rap music, has been involved in raising awareness and funds for Rohingya and Syrian refugee children, and has advocated 'BAME' representation at the House of Commons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riz Ahmed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Riz Ahmed
Maxwell Dillon / Electro
for Maxwell Dillon / Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 3
Suggested by miguelrodriguez
The film opens with a storm-soaked prologue at Oscorp. Maxwell Dillon, an overworked Oscorp electrician, repairs the electrical tower atop the building during a violent thunderstorm. A lightning strike engulfs him in blinding energy, and Dillon vanishes into thin air just as Norman Osborn steps outside to check on him. After the opening credits, the story shifts to the final day of Peter Parker and his friends’ senior year. Harry and Mary Jane are now an official couple. Graduation follows, with Gwen Stacy, Peter’s girlfriend, delivering the valedictorian speech. With Norman having won the mayoral election, he hands control of Oscorp to Harry. The group discusses their futures—Flash leaves for college, while Peter plans to attend Empire State University and search for new work. Celebration turns to chaos when massive destruction erupts in Queens. Peter slips away and becomes Spider-Man, arriving to face a glowing, electrified figure: Electro—Maxwell Dillon reborn. Their clash is brief but devastating. Electro overwhelms Spider-Man, marking one of Peter’s first true defeats, before disappearing into the city. Trying to reclaim normalcy, Peter interviews at the Daily Bugle, where J. Jonah Jameson hires him. There he meets Eddie Brock and Felicia Hardy, the latter secretly operating as Black Cat. Spider-Man encounters Felicia multiple times during a string of robberies, forming a tense, flirtatious rivalry. The film’s midpoint centers on a major event at the F.E.A.S.T. Center, where Norman delivers a public speech. Aunt May attends, but Martin Li is noticeably absent. Peter, Gwen, Harry, MJ, Ned, and Betty are present, along with Jefferson Davis, head of security, and his brother Aaron Davis, watching from the shadows with Jefferson’s young son, Miles Morales. The event is violently interrupted. Electro returns, joining forces with Mister Negative (Martin Li) and his Demons. Electro seeks unlimited power, while Li wants revenge on Norman for the Devil’s Breath experiment that killed his parents and transformed him. Norman survives the assassination attempt, but Jefferson Davis is killed when debris collapses during the attack. Li and the Demons vanish, leaving the city scarred. In the aftermath, Spider-Man encounters The Prowler—Aaron Davis—during another attempted Black Cat robbery. The fight turns emotional when Aaron blames Spider-Man for failing to stop the F.E.A.S.T. attack and save Jefferson. Peter apologizes, visibly shaken, and allows Prowler to escape. Preparing for what he knows is coming, Peter develops cure serums intended to restore Electro and the increasingly unstable Green Goblin to their former selves. Before he can finish, Gwen calls him in distress, asking him to meet at the Merchandise Building on Fifth Avenue. Peter senses danger and rushes there with the serums. Inside, Peter finds Electro—and a maskless Green Goblin. The truth shatters him: the Goblin is Norman Osborn. Norman takes Gwen to the top of the clock tower while Spider-Man battles Electro below. In a perfectly timed moment, Peter injects Dillon with the serum, curing him. Above, Norman taunts Peter and drops Gwen. Spider-Man saves her with a web line, but his fight with Norman damages the clock’s mechanism. As the gears fail, the web snaps. The clock freezes at 1:21. Peter dives and webs Gwen again—but the sudden stop breaks her neck. Gwen dies in his arms. Overcome with grief and rage, Peter beats Norman to death atop the tower, abandoning the cure he created. Horrified by what he’s done, Peter delivers Norman’s body to the Osborn estate, where Harry witnesses Spider-Man leaving his dead father behind—igniting a future love-hate bond. The film ends at Norman’s funeral. Harry thanks Peter, calling him his only true friend, unaware of the truth. Peter walks away alone. Post-credit scene: Harry secretly works on a new Goblin serum. In the shadows behind him, something stirs in containment—the Symbiote.
