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Robert Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his "hellraiser" lifestyle. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in the 1968 Best Picture Oscar winner Oliver! (a film directed by his uncle Carol Reed), Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), portraying Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974); the lover and stepfather in Tommy (1975), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000). For playing Antonius Proximo, the old, gruff gladiator trainer in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, in what was his final film, Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2000. At the peak of his career, in 1971, British exhibitors voted Reed fifth most popular star at the box office. The British Film Institute (BFI) stated that "partnerships with Michael Winner and Ken Russell in the mid-60s saw Reed become an emblematic Brit-flick icon", but from the mid-1970s his alcoholism began affecting his career, with the BFI adding "Reed had assumed Robert Newton's mantle as Britain's thirstiest thespian".
Diana, an Amazonian princess of the island of Themyscira, an island made up entirely of only women, has lived almost her entire life there without ever meeting a single man. Soon, an American Airforce fighter pilot and spy named Steve Trevor crash-lands on the island, and upon meeting Diana, informs her of an ongoing conflict between nations, leading Diana to choose to leave her home and join Steve in stopping it. It soon becomes clear that this is all being orchestrated by Ares, the god of war, who is disgusted with humanity's flaws, along with Doctor Poison, an infamous female war criminal known for her genius intellect in chemistry and toxicology. Knowing these two must be stopped at all costs, Diana sets out to stop them and end the inevitable suffering in a journey that will turn her into well-known superheroine Wonder Woman.
