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Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received multiple accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards. He is among a few actors who have received nominations for the EGOT. Cheadle's career started with supporting roles in Hamburger Hill (1987), Colors (1988), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Rosewood (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), and Bulworth (1998). He collaborated with director Steven Soderberghacting in Out of Sight (1998), Traffic (2000), The Ocean's Trilogy (2001–2007), and No Sudden Move (2021). Cheadle was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying Paul Rusesabagina in the historical drama film Hotel Rwanda (2004). He was the co-producer of Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005. Cheadle joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe portraying James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine, beginning with Iron Man 2 (2010). On television, Cheadle earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his roles as Marty Kaan in House of Lies (2012–2016) and Maurice Monroe in Black Monday (2019–2021). He was further Emmy-nominated for The Rat Pack (1998), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), Things Behind the Sun (2001), ER (2002), and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). In 2016, he received his first Grammy Award, winning Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for Miles Ahead's soundtrack. In 2022, he received a second Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for his narration of the audiobook Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation from John Lewis; he also received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
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After the Master Emerald is stolen by none other than Rogue the Bat, Knuckles chases her through a warp ring on his own and ends up on an inter-zone treasure hunt for it with the help of the Chaotix, a team of detectives hoping to score a big payout for finding a big gemstone. Things quickly go awry as such a powerful artifact quickly attracts attention to Rogue and she is hunted down by all manner of thieves and bounty hunters. In one of these scuffles, something happens to the master emerald and it is once again shattered. Chaos, a primordial entity made of living water, is released from the shattered gemstone. Meanwhile, Agent Stone looks for a way to revive Doctor Robotnik, who is in stasis after being defeated by Sonic in the end of the last movie. On his quest to find a means of doing so, he discovers a secret CIA database from the 70s filled with the research of Robotnik's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Gerald's research suggests that chaos power could be used as a means to preserve life, so he intends to use it to revive the doctor. He goes after a source of chaos energy he discovers in another zone, which happens to be the stolen master emerald. He activates a line of highly advanced robot soldiers Eggman had designed for the government, the E-Series, to claim the master emerald for himself.
