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Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is known for playing the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who (2010–2013), Prince Philip in Netflix's historical series The Crown (2016–2017)—for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination—and Daemon Targaryen in HBO's fantasy drama series House of the Dragon(2022–present). Smith initially aspired to be a professional footballer, but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport. After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia, he began his acting career in 2003, performing in plays such as Murder in the Cathedral, Fresh Kills, The History Boys, and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres. Extending his repertoire into West End theatre, he has since performed in the stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with Christian Slater, followed a year later by a critically acclaimed performance in That Face. Smith's first television role was in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North. His first significant television role came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals. In film, he has played a dual role in the science fiction film Womb (2010), the physical forms of Skynet in the cyberpunk action film Terminator Genisys (2015), a 1960s pimp in the psychological horror film Last Night in Soho (2021) and Milo Morbius in the superhero film Morbius (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, rulers of Thebes. After the suicide of Jocasta and the exile of Oedipus, the two brothers of Antigone, Eteocle and Polynice killed each other for the throne of Thebes. Creon, brother of Jocasta is - as such - the new king and decided to offer burial only to Etéocle and not to Polynice, described as thug and traitor. He warned by an edict that anyone who dares to bury the renegade's body will be punished with death. Nobody dares to brave the forbidden and the corpse of Polynice is abandoned to the sun and scavengers. Only Antigone refuses this situation. Despite the prohibition of her uncle, she goes several times to the body of his brother and tries to cover it with soil. Ismene, his sister, does not want to accompany him because she is afraid of Creon and death. Antigone is caught by the king's guards. Creon is obliged to apply the sentence of death to Antigone. After a long debate with her uncle on the purpose of existence, she is condemned to be buried alive. But just as the tomb is going to be sealed, Creon learns that his son, Hémon, fiancé of Antigone, has let himself be shut up with the one he loves. When the tomb is reopened, Antigone hangs with her belt and Hemon, spitting in her father's face, opens her belly with her sword. Despaired by the disappearance of the son she adored, Eurydice, Creon's wife, cuts her throat.
