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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 story begins when Lara embarks on her first expedition aboard the Endurance with the intention of finding the lost kingdom of Yamatai. In a storm, the ship is cut in half and threatens to be wrecked. Lara Croft gets on board, but fails to hold on to a group of her friends and falls into the sea. When she reaches the beach of the island, an unknown person knocks her out. Lara subsequently wakes up in an underground shrine where the locals worship a goddess Himiko. When Lara manages to break free from prison, she tries to find her friends. Later, Lara does meet her friend Sam, but she is taken by the islander Mathias to an unknown location. When Lara manages to track down the rest of the group, a manhunt is launched for Sam, during which the group of friends is split up. Lara and Dr. Whitman are kidnapped by unknown Russians and Lara must once again manage to escape. Gradually, she unravels the complex life on the island and discovers who the mythical goddess Himiko is and why there is no way off the island. However, after destroying Himiko and saving Sam, the story ends on an open ended note with Lara's decision not to return home.
