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Michael Charles Chiklis (/ˈtʃɪklɪs/; born August 30, 1963) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Detective Vic Mackey on the FX police drama The Shield (2002–2008), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2002 and was nominated in 2003. Other starring television roles of his include Commissioner Tony Scali on the ABC police drama The Commish (1991–1996), Chris Woods in Daddio (2000), Jim Powell on the ABC science-fiction comedy-drama No Ordinary Family (2010–2011), Vincent Savino in the CBS crime drama Vegas (2012), Dell Toledo in American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014), and Nathaniel Barnes in Gotham (2015–2017). In film, he is best known for his roles as The Thing in two Fantastic Four films (2005–2007), George Callister in Eagle Eye (2008), Terry Eidson in When the Game Stands Tall (2014), and Father Dave in Hubie Halloween (2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Chiklis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Reed Richards leads an experimental space mission to study a mysterious surge of cosmic radiation, joined by his fiancée Sue Storm, her impulsive younger brother Johnny, and Reed’s close friend and pilot Ben Grimm. When the mission is struck by cosmic rays, the crew barely survives and crash-lands back on Earth. Soon after, they discover they have been permanently transformed: Reed can stretch his body, Sue can turn invisible and create force fields, Johnny can ignite into living flame and fly, and Ben is mutated into a super-strong, rock-like being. As Reed searches desperately for a cure—particularly for Ben—the group struggles with guilt, anger, and their fractured relationships. Their fragile unity is threatened by the emergence of the Red Ghost, a brilliant Soviet physicist who deliberately exposed himself to cosmic radiation in an attempt to surpass Richards. Gaining the ability to phase through solid matter, Red Ghost launches a series of attacks with the help of his super-powered ape allies, aiming to assert scientific and ideological dominance. Forced into the public eye, the four must learn to trust one another and combine their abilities to stop him. In a final confrontation, they defeat Red Ghost by embracing teamwork over ego, accepting that their powers are not a curse but a responsibility. United at last, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben step forward as the Fantastic Four.
