“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”
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Mark Strong
Mark Strong is an English actor. Strong is known for his starring roles on stage as well as for his villainous roles in historical dramas and franchise films. He has received accolades including a Laurence Olivier Award and a BAFTA TV Award as well as nominations for two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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entertainment · British actor (born 1963) · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · also Mark Strong, Marco Giuseppe Salussolia, Strong
Born 5 August 1963 · Q312712
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2026· 3 entries
“closely follows the early comics”
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“understand the purpose of the character”
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2024· 1 entry
And Broadway in 2025, earning nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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2019· 1 entry
Portrayed the villain Doctor Thaddeus Sivana in the superhero film Shazam
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2018· 1 entry
Starred in the hostage thriller Stockholm, and had the leading role in Fox network's Deep State, an espionage thriller in which he portrays an ex-spy named Max Easton, who after the death of his son, is brought out of
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (2016).
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Co-starred with Sacha Baron Cohen in the action-comedy film Grimsby, playing a top MI6 secret agent with Cohen as his idiotic football hooligan brother
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2015· 1 entry
Strong won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role in A View from the Bridge, which he starred in as Eddie Carbone at the Young Vic
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2014· 2 entries
And Broadway in 2015 which earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play respectively
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Initially shown during Super Bowl XLVIII and later online and on television, featuring Strong alongside fellow English actors Ben Kingsley and Tom Hiddleston
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2011· 2 entries
Strong played Thaal Sinestro, a Green Lantern and Hal Jordan's mentor, in the superhero film Green Lantern
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Voiced Pod in The Secret World of Arrietty and Captain Titus of the Ultramarines Chapter in the video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
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2009· 1 entry
Strong played a lead part in the Channel 4 film Endgame, and he played Lord Blackwood, the main villain, in Sherlock Holmes, who has somehow returned after his execution with a plot to take over the British Empire using
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2008· 3 entries
That when he was a child he was inspired to become an actor by watching French actor Alain Delon, but clarified in 2019 that he did not consider acting as a career until he was older
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Played Nick Calderelli in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Mannie Miesel in Flashbacks of a Fool, Finn in Babylon A
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Portrayed Hani Salaam, the Jordanian intelligence chief and director of the feared GID in Body of Lies, marking his first collaboration with English director Ridley Scott
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2007· 2 entries
They live in North London, which Strong discussed in 2007: "I've got no desire to live anywhere else.
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Portrayed Prince Septimus, the youngest of the seven Stormhold princes, in Stardust
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-08-05.
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1923· 1 entry
“Bible Teaching and Religious Practice”
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1897· 1 entry
“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?”
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1869· 2 entries
“Man's Place in the Animal World”
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“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Farm”
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1865· 1 entry
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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