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Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress. She is bilingual and has worked extensively in Sweden, Great Britain, and mainly in the United States. Ferguson began her television acting career in 1999 with the Swedish soap opera Nya Tider, and she made her motion picture debut in 2004 with the Swedish slasher film Drowning Ghost. She came to international prominence with her portrayal of Elizabeth Woodville in the British BBC drama The White Queen (2013), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film. Ferguson starred as MI6 agent Ilsa Faust, opposite Tom Cruise, in three of the Mission: Impossible films: Rogue Nation (2015), Fallout (2018), and Dead Reckoning Part One (2023). She played Jenny Lind in the musical film The Greatest Showman (2017), starred in the horror films Life (2017) and Doctor Sleep(2019), and had supporting parts in the comedy-drama Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the science fiction films Dune(2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). In 2023, she began starring in the Apple TV+science fiction series Silo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rebecca Ferguson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Trojan War is a legendary conflict from Greek mythology, sparked by the abduction of Helen by the Trojan prince Paris. Helen, who was married to Menelaus of Sparta, was taken to Troy, prompting a massive Greek expedition led by Agamemnon to reclaim her. The war lasted for ten years, with key figures like Achilles, Hector, and Odysseus playing pivotal roles. Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior, withdrew from the fighting after a dispute with Agamemnon, but returned after the death of his close friend Patroclus. After a series of heroic duels and divine interventions, the Greeks used the cunning tactic of the Trojan Horse to infiltrate and sack the city. The fall of Troy marked the end of the war, but many Greek heroes faced difficult journeys home, with Odysseus enduring a long voyage as told in the Odyssey. The war’s aftermath led to the eventual founding of Rome through the Trojan hero Aeneas.
