Age: 45
male
Alexander Stephen Hassell (born 7 September 1980) is an English actor. He is co-founder of The Factory Theatre Company. Hassell was born in Southend, England, the youngest of four, to a vicar. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama after completing GCSE and A-Level courses at Moulsham High School, in Chelmsford, Essex. He has appeared in a number of stage roles, most recently as Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry in Henry V, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first Hollywood role was in George Clooney's Suburbicon (2017), and later that year he appeared in his first major television role in the BBC adaptation of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist, which first aired on Boxing Day. He also appeared as Translucent in the first season of The Boys (2019) on Amazon Prime Video, and played Vicious in Netflix's Cowboy Bebop in 2021.
Thursday Next lives in a fractured England shaped by war, politics, and stories. Books affect reality. Criminals target novels to change the world outside them. Acheron Hades steals a device that opens doors into fiction. He enters Jane Eyre and removes Jane. Every copy of the book breaks. Chaos hits the country. Thursday follows him into the novel. Pages shift around her. Rochester senses she comes from another world. She pushes through traps, rescues Jane, and hunts Hades inside the story’s timeline. She kills him, sets the story back on track, and gives Jane and Rochester a true ending. Back home, she exposes Goliath’s failed weapon program and forces peace talks. She stops a wedding, reunites with her former fiancé, and steps into an uncertain future as the only person who moves between reality and fiction.
