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Walter Charles Dance OBE (born 10 October 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director. He typically plays strict, authoritarian characters or villains. He is best known for his roles as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Kitchener in The King's Man, Martin Benson in Amazon Prime's The Widow, Lord Mountbatten in Netflix's The Crown (for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series), Thomas in Underworld: Awakening and Underworld: Blood Wars, Harold Fillmore in Ghostbusters (2016), Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Frankenstein in Victor Frankenstein, Master Vampire in Dracula Untold, Conrad Knox in the Cinemax series Strike Back, Raymond Stockbridge in Gosford Park, one-eyed hitman Benedict in Last Action Hero, Clemens in Alien³, Sardo Numpsa in The Golden Child, and Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown. He started his career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before appearing in film and television. For his services to drama, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006. He made his directorial film debut with the drama film Ladies in Lavender (2004), which he also wrote and executive produced.
The Batman has been protecting the streets of Gotham for a decade with the help of his allies Batgirl and Robin. Gotham has become one of the safest cities in the country, but that safety comes into question when the mayor-elect, Sebastian Hady, is found dead in his penthouse apartment. Commissioner James Gordon and Officer Harvey Bullock conclude that Hady must have been killed with a large blunt object, but Batman has another theory. The imprints on the body are similar to those left by a fist. Before Batman, Batgirl, and Robin can begin investigating, a string of crimes spring out at once. Batgirl goes to stop Firefly from burning down Gotham’s boardwalk. Robin is evacuating a ballroom of Gotham’s elites as Deadshot fires at them all. Batman attempts to take on Solomon Grundy, who is running around the streets breaking anything in his path, but is ultimately outmatched. Thankfully, Batman’s former partner and first Robin, Dick Grayson, appears in a modified version of the Robin costume. The pair take down Grundy like old times and Dick joins the team to investigate the sudden uptick in crime. While the four of them were stopping Firefly, Deadshot, and Grundy, another murder occurs in the same manner as Hady’s. This time to Gotham’s district attorney Janice Porter. The team concludes that the attacks were coordinated to distract them all from finding out who the mysterious killer is. We eventually find out that the killer is a newcomer to Gotham named Bane, a masked man who was raised on a prison ship serving out his father’s sentence for him. Bane, powered by the super-enhancing venom, fights a weakened Batman and beats him. Now it is up to Batman’s sidekicks to fight Bane while Batman is down.
