assassin
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A cranky, offensive yet somehow lovable John Malkovich plays an old Company assassin named Chris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Award-winning actress Gabrielle Creevy has told how she loved being able to play "a very Welsh assassin" in the upcoming new season of spy thriller Black Doves.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Ali’s mournful assassin is trying to stay one step ahead of his enemies and, likewise, the movie fights like hell to elude conventionality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the main character of the first entries in the series, inspired the outfits and high-flying style of his "aerial assassin" persona.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
He hadn’t the faintest clue what her life was like, how she became an assassin, how she learned to play the pianoforte...It was all a mystery.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
He was on the march "to demonstrate against the assassins of humanity", he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Antony uses the opportunity to skillfully turn the Romans against the assassins, mocking Brutus as “an honorable man,” who had committed “bloody treason.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Tailed by French intelligence officers, he thought he was being followed by Israeli assassins and gave himself in at a police station.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star as married assassins in Prime Video’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” an “Atlanta”-esque reworking of the theatrical feature that famously starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
Though John Surratt was being sought by Stanton as one of Lincoln’s assassins, he had not even been in Washington on April 14.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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