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Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.

Charged with the special task of assembling a team of superheroes to protect the world from danger, Nick Fury decided to summon Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Hawkeye, Thor, Spider-Man, Black Widow, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Daredevil, Elektra, Ant Man and the Wasp. Stark provided his Stark Tower as a headquarters for the newly formed Avengers team. Tony Stark is very interested in Spider-Man's Gadgets. Peter revealed to him that he had made them himself with the help of a brilliant Dr. Otto Octavius. Tony decided to visit Octavius Industries and arranged a meeting with Otto, he wanted to propose cooperation on the development of gadgets for the whole team. He agrees and Tony introduces him to Hank Pym and Bruce Banner. J. Jonah Jameson invited the mayor of NY City (Norman Osborn) on TV and asked him about his opinion on the newly formed Avengers, he is not thrilled. Tony also provided one supersuit to James Rhodes, who started calling himself War Machine and joined the team. While traveling through space, Loki discovers a race of robotic aliens, the Chitauri, who offer Loki that if he allows them to obtain the Tesseract, then in return they will help him bring down the Earth that his hated brother Thor loved so much. The cube is being investigated by SHIELD. Even the entire base full of experienced agents could not protect her from theft. Loki seizes it, kills everyone in his path, and then escapes. The Avenegers unite and war begins.


