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Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

She credits much of her fearlessness as a performer to her time spent on the Hulu series “The Great,” on which she played a fictionalized version of Russian empress Catherine the Great.

The state visit to the UK by the emperor and empress of Japan will go ahead later this month, says Buckingham Palace.

A few years later, the tutor to the empress’s rival Shoshi, Shikibu wrote the world’s first known novel, “The Tale of Genji,” about a talented and handsome nobleman hampered by his family’s unfortunate political position.

He’s also due to host a state visit by the emperor and empress of Japan in June.