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Alun Armstrong is a prolific English character actor. Armstrong grew up in County Durham in North East England. He first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... I always play very colourful characters, often a bit crazy, despotic, psychotic." His numerous credits include six different Dickens adaptations and seven series as eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and he won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's toy line of the same name. The film is the first installment in the Transformers film series. The film is directed and written by Stephen Sommers. It stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager who gets caught up in a war between the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, two factions of alien robots who can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery, primarily vehicles. The Autobots intend to retrieve and use the AllSpark, the powerful artifact that created their robotic race that is on Earth, to rebuild their home planet Cybertron and end the war, while the Decepticons have the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth. Tyrese Gibson, Oded Fehr, Kevin Dunn, John Hannah and Jon Voight also star, while voice actors Peter Cullen and Arnold Vosloo voice Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively, along with Jay Baruchel, Alun Armstrong, Jess Harnell, Kirby Morrow, Joeseph Gordon-Levitt, Keith David, David Kaye, Daniel Riordan and Frank Welker provide the Voices of Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Hot Shot, Starscream, Barricade, Blackout, Bonecrusher and Scorponok.
