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Winston Duke (born 15 November 1986) is a Tobagonian actor. Duke was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn, New York, United States, at age nine. Duke began his career with minor roles in theatre productions and recurring roles on the CBS science fiction series Person of Interest (2014–2015) and the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2016). He rose to prominence after playing M'Baku in several films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018–2022), which is one of the highest-grossing media franchises. He has since appeared in the horror film Us (2019), the fantasy drama Nine Days (2020), and the action-comedy films Spenser Confidential (2020) and The Fall Guy (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Duke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Winston Duke
Brutish Guard
for Brutish Guard in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Set in the dark, disease-ridden mud of 1482 Paris, Robert Eggers and Craig Mazin’s Notre-Dame is a psychological gothic tragedy that strips away Disney’s theatricality to embrace the bleak reality of Victor Hugo’s text. Quasimodo (Griffin Santopietro) is a severely deformed 20-year-old youth kept hidden inside the unheated, echoing labyrinth of the cathedral by Archdeacon Claude Frollo (Vincent Cassel). Frollo is an aging, tyrannical judge weaponizing religious fanaticism to mask his own rotting moral core and toxic, repressed lust. Severely isolated, Quasimodo’s fracturing mind copes through vivid, terrifying hallucinations as the stone gargoyles warp into life—manifesting as the manic survival instinct Hugo (Oscar Isaac), the crushing weight of religious shame Victor (Brian Tyree Henry), and the weeping specter of maternal abandonment Laverne (Tilda Swinton).The fragile sanctuary of the church shatters when Esmeralda (Helin Kandemir), a fierce, hyper-vigilant Romani street survivor, flees into the cathedral. She finds unexpected allies in the ancient, compassionate Archdeacon (Bill Nighy) and Quasimodo himself, who experiences a radical awakening of empathy. Frollo launches a brutal, xenophobic purge of the city to claim her, deploying his heavily armored enforcers (Winston Duke and Seth Rogen) alongside the war-weary, PTSD-afflicted Captain Phoebus (Rudy Pankow). When Phoebus chooses his own rank over moral duty, it triggers a catastrophic guerrilla uprising led by Clopin (Danny Lee Wynter) from the Parisian underworld. As the slums storm the gates under a rain of molten lead, Quasimodo must physically and mentally battle his own inner stone demons to save Esmeralda from Frollo's gallows, culminating in a visceral, breathless climax atop the high towers that explores the true cost of isolation and institutional cruelty.
