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Rupert William Anthony Friend (born October 1981) is an English actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), winning him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lieutenant Kurt Kotler in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), Albert, Prince Consort in The Young Victoria (2009), psychologist Oliver Baumer in Starred Up (2013), CIA operative Peter Quinn in the political thriller series Homeland (2012–2017), Vasily Stalin in The Death of Stalin (2017), Theo van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018), and Ernest Donovan in the series Strange Angel (2018–2019). In the early 2020s, Friend began collaborating with director Wes Anderson, starting with a cameo in The French Dispatch (2021), followed by roles in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse in Anatomy of a Scandal and featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi as the Grand Inquisitor. Friend is the director, screenwriter or producer of two award-winning short films: The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide Brothers (2008) and Steve (2010). He wrote lyrics for the Kairos 4Tet 2013 album Everything We Hold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Friend, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Rupert Friend
Dr. Emory Falk
for Dr. Emory Falk in You Shouldn't Have Answered That Message at Night
Suggested by roma_007
In the isolated town of Black Hollow, whispers of an urban legend known as The Echo Chain haunt the shadows. A message sent to unsuspecting victims' phones at precisely 2:13 AM carries a simple, eerie request: “Will you let me in?” Those who answer are never the same. After the sudden disappearance of her brother Sam five years earlier, Dr. Lila Travers returns to Black Hollow to unravel the mystery behind his vanishing and the sinister force lurking in the town’s digital darkness. When a group of college students encounters The Echo Chain during a reckless night in the woods, the horror is reignited. One by one, they begin receiving cryptic messages, haunted by a faceless, otherworldly entity known only as The Pale One. As Lila races to uncover the truth and confront the growing evil, she must decide how far she’ll go — and what she’s willing to sacrifice — to save those she loves from a malevolent force born in the dead spaces between signal and silence.
