<P> Back in Hollywood, writer / director Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) was planning a new film called The Sin Eater (also known as The Order). He was impressed by Bettany's audition tape, though Helgeland eventually decided to film A Knight's Tale instead . The studio executives were not impressed, but Helgeland was determined to cast him, even writing the part of Chaucer for him . A Knight's Tale would be Bettany's first big Hollywood production . He received critical acclaim for A Knight's Tale, including winning the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Supporting Actor . After the movie wrapped, Helgeland, determined that Hollywood should recognize Bettany's talent, showed the audition tape to many of his peers, including Ron Howard, who promptly cast Bettany in A Beautiful Mind . After A Beautiful Mind, Bettany was offered the role of serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, opposite Edward Norton and Anthony Hopkins . He turned down the role in favour of accepting a part with Stellan Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in Lars von Trier's Dogville . </P> <P> Bettany's next major project saw him starring again alongside Russell Crowe in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World . His portrayal of surgeon and naturalist Stephen Maturin brought him a BAFTA nomination, and he was named British Actor of the Year (London Film Critics' Circle), and Best Actor (Evening Standard). </P> <P> On 28 June 2004, Bettany and 13 other actors were included in the 2004 invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Dogville and The Reckoning were released in limited cinemas in 2004 . In September of that year, Bettany made his leading - man debut in Wimbledon, a romantic comedy with Kirsten Dunst . The film's cast would also introduce him to Jon Favreau, playing his manager, a relationship that would return when Favreau cast him as the voice of J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man . In mid-2005, Bettany filmed Firewall in Vancouver, Canada, a thriller also starring Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen, which reunited him with Wimbledon director Richard Loncraine . He spent the autumn of 2005 filming The Da Vinci Code, based on Dan Brown's best - selling novel and starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen . In the film, he played an Opus Dei monk named Silas . </P> <P> In 2007, Bettany went to London to star in There For Me, written by his friends Dan Fredenburgh and Doraly Rosen . In 2008, he appeared in the New Line Cinema family fantasy Inkheart, playing the part of a fire - eater named Dustfinger . In 2009, he appeared as Charles Darwin in Creation, starring opposite wife Jennifer Connelly . In 2010, Bettany appeared alongside Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist and portrayed the archangel Michael in Legion, a movie based on God's vengeance against humanity . He starred in the films Priest and Margin Call, both released in 2011 . </P>

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