X-Men: First Class
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Bacon
- In Kevin Bacon: Breakthrough in Footloose and later film career
…as villain Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class (2011). On television he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Dick in I Love Dick (2016–17) and praise for his portrayal of a respected but corrupt FBI agent in City on a Hill (2019–22). He played himself in The…
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Fassbender
- In Michael Fassbender: Career
…Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, and X-Men: First Class, in which he played mutant antihero Erik Lensherr/Magneto.
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Hoult
- In Nicholas Hoult: Skins, the X-Men franchise, and Mad Max: Fury Road
…to play the Beast in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He underwent another transformation for his role in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). In the futuristic thriller he was cast as Nux, a bald-headed, pasty-faced War Boy and fanatic…
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Kravitz
- In Zoë Kravitz: Popular series: Divergent and Fantastic Beasts
…the teenage mutant Angel in X-Men: First Class, the fifth movie in the popular comic book franchise.
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Lawrence
- In Jennifer Lawrence
…the shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X-Men: First Class (2011), a role she reprised in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and Dark Phoenix (2019). She made the transition to stardom upon being cast as heroine Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012)—the film version of the first…
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Wolverine
- In Wolverine
…also made cameo appearances in X-Men: First Class (2011) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Although Jackman had stated that Logan would be his last film as Wolverine, he returned to the screen alongside Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Deadpool & Wolverine marked the debut of both of the title…
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X-Men
- In X-Men: X-Men in television, films, and other media
…X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Dark Phoenix (2019), and The New Mutants (2020). Hugh Jackman, whose star-making turn as Wolverine in the first X-Men film had made him an international sensation, headlined the solo films
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