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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Russell became the studio's top star of the 1970s. Russell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance in Mike Nichols's Silkwood (1983). Also in the 1980s, he starred in several films directed by John Carpenter in which he played anti-hero roles: the futuristic action film Escape from New York (1981), its sequel Escape from L.A.(1996), the horror film The Thing (1982), and the kung-fu comedy action film Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell starred in various other films, including Used Cars (1980), The Best of Times (1986), Overboard (1987), Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), Stargate (1994), Executive Decision (1996), Breakdown (1997), Vanilla Sky (2001), Miracle (2004), Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). He also appeared in the Fast & Furious franchise as Mr. Nobody (starring in Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), and F9 (2021)). He also portrayed Ego in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) instalments Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and What If...?(2021), and played the role of Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles (2018) and The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020).
Kurt Russell
Gerald Robotnik
for Gerald Robotnik in Upcoming Paramount Knuckles series
Suggested by danielanglin
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.
