<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2002--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Lee Grinner Pace (born March 25, 1979) is an American actor . Pace has been featured in film, stage and television . He starred as protagonist Joe MacMillan in AMC's Halt and Catch Fire . He also played Roy Walker / the Masked Bandit in the 2006 film The Fall . He has appeared in film series, including The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 2 as Garrett and The Hobbit trilogy as Thranduil . He also starred as Ned in the ABC series Pushing Daisies for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2008 . </P> <P> In the Marvel Cinematic Universe he played the villain Ronan the Accuser in the film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and will reprise his role in the upcoming Captain Marvel (2019). </P> <P> Pace was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the son of Charlotte (née Kloeckler), a schoolteacher, and James Roy Pace, an engineer . He has two siblings, a sister named Sally and a younger brother named Willam Pace . As a child, Pace spent several years in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked in the oil business; the family later moved to Houston, Texas . Pace attended Klein High School in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, with future fellow actor Matt Bomer . Pace temporarily quit high school to act at Houston's Alley Theatre before returning to graduate . At the Alley, he appeared in productions of The Spider's Web and The Greeks . In 1997, Pace was accepted by the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997--2001), which also included actors Anthony Mackie and Tracie Thoms . While there, he acted in several plays, including Romeo and Juliet as Romeo, Richard II in the title role, and Julius Caesar as Cassius . He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree . </P>

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