who plays ray barone?
Ray Romano, Michael Buble
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 In 2011 , he starred in The Adjustment Bureau , Contagion , and We Bought a Zoo . In April 2012 , Damon filmed Promised Land , directed by Gus Van Sant , which he co @-@ wrote with John Krasinski . Damon 's next film with frequent collaborator Steven Soderbergh was Behind the Candelabra , a drama about the life of pianist / entertainer Liberace ( played by Michael Douglas ) with Damon playing Liberace 's longtime partner Scott Thorson . The film premiered on HBO on May 26 , 2013 . 

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 Production on the second series of Star Stories was announced by Channel 4 in January 2007 , and in addition to Tom Cruise , others set for parodying included Simon Cowell , Britney Spears and " the 1990s chart battle between Oasis and Blur " . The show was episode two of the second series of Star Stories . The episode was first broadcast on Channel 4 on 2 August 2007 . On its website , Channel 4 promoted the episode with the description , " Hollywood 's smallest actor ( after Danny DeVito ) expounds on Aliens from Outer Space and the best career choices ever . " In August 2007 , the series was set to be remade into a new version in the U.S. 

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 In 2000 , Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment purchased the rights to " The Return of Superfly " , a New York magazine story by Mark Jacobson about the rise and fall of the 1970s heroin kingpin Frank Lucas . In 2002 , screenwriter Steven Zaillian brought a 170 @-@ page script to director Ridley Scott , who expressed interest in making two films from it . However , Scott did not immediately pursue the project , choosing to make Kingdom of Heaven instead . In November 2003 , Universal and Imagine entered negotiations with Brian De Palma to direct Tru Blu , with a script by Zaillian based on Frank Lucas . Zaillian interpreted the story as one of " American business and race " , focusing the script thematically on corporate business . Production was initially slated for a spring 2004 start . In March 2004 , the studio entered new negotiations with Antoine Fuqua to direct , as well as Denzel Washington to star in the film as Frank Lucas . The following May , Benicio del Toro entered negotiations to star as Detective Richie Roberts , who brought down Lucas . Production of Tru Blu was reset to begin in early fall 2004 , with the film slated for a release date of June 3 , 2005 . In September 2004 , Dania Ramirez entered negotiations to join the cast of the film , now titled American Gangster . 

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 Liv Ullmann 's adaptation of August Strindberg 's Miss Julie with Jessica Chastain and Samantha Morton . His turn as John , the serving man to Chastain 's character 's father , was described by Stephen Holden of the New York Times as the " strongest " of the three performances and Ullmann 's direction too flat by most reviewers . He starred in the second season of HBO 's True Detective as Ray Velcoro , alongside Vince Vaughn , Taylor Kitsch , and Rachel McAdams . The first two episodes were directed by Justin Lin . He worked with a dialect coach to get the nonstandard California accent for his character , which he found challenging . 

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 The film is a time @-@ travel adventure in which Ba 'al travels back to 1939 to create an alternate timeline in which Earth never establishes their Stargate program , and to take control of the Goa 'uld Empire . The only people to remember the truth , the SG @-@ 1 team attempts to reinstate the original timeline . The film stars the main cast of the show 's last season , with the return of Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O 'Neill . 
