Question: What nationality was the actor in a crime thriller that premiered in September 2008?

Context articles: Ganesh-Vasanth
Crimen sollicitationis (song)
Simon Hantaï
Mussanjemaatu
Kosovo–Switzerland relations
Crime Thriller Awards
Tom Hardy
Reba Meagher
Jim Sturgess
Fifty Dead Men Walking

Ganesh - Vasanth are the fictional lawyer cum detective duo appearing in Tamil crime thriller novels written by Sujatha from 1970s.
 Lawyer Ganesh is a senior advocate who is mainly accompanied by his witty and mischievous young junior assistant lawyer Vasanth.
 The duo featured in many of the detective crime thriller novels of writer Sujatha.
Crimen Sollicitationis (English: "crime of solicitation") is the first single by Spanish Ska punk group Ska-P from their album "Lágrimas y Gozos".
 The song was released as a single on 5 September 2008, and the album on 8 September 2008.
Simon Hantaï (7 December 1922, Bia, Hungary – Paris, 12 September 2008; took French nationality in 1966) is a painter generally associated with abstract art.
Mussanjemaatu (Kannada: ಮುಸ್ಸಂಜೆಮಾತು ) is a 2008 Romantic film starring Sudeep and Ramya.
 The film was directed by Mussanje Mahesh.
 The movie is produced by Suresh Jain.
 The music of the film was launched on 4 April 2008.
 The movie was released on 16 May 2008 in India.
 And also released in United States.
 In United States San Jose on 27 June 2008, in New Jersey on 11 July 2008, in Dallas on 26 July 2008, in Atlanta on 9 August 2008, in Los Angeles on 24 August 2008, in Laurel on 20 September 2008, in Novi on 27 September 2008, in Houston on 11 October 2008, in Seattle on 18 October 2008, in Boston on 26 October 2008, in Cary on 8 November 2008 and in Milpitas on 13 March 2010.
 And also released in Canada - Toronto on 30 November 2008.
 Mussanje Maatu has been remade in Bengali with the name Achena Prem which was released on 8 July 2011.
Kosovan–Swiss relations are foreign relations between Kosovo and Switzerland.
 Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and Switzerland recognised it on 27 February 2008.
 Switzerland has an embassy in Pristina since 28 March 2008.
 Kosovo has an embassy in Bern.
 In September 2008, Swiss authorities initially expressed reservation for Designate Ambassador Naim Mala due to his double nationality but latter accepted him.
The Crime Thriller Awards is a British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction.
 The inaugural event was held on 3 October 2008 at the Grosvenor Hotel, hosted by comedian and "Jonathan Creek" actor Alan Davies.
 It was televised on ITV3 on 6 October.
 The ceremony was preceded by seven weeks of crime-thriller-related programming on ITV3.
(born 15 September 1977) is an English actor and producer.
 His motion picture debut was in Ridley Scott's 2001 action film "Black Hawk Down".
 Hardy's other notable films include the science fiction film "" (2002), the crime film "RocknRolla" (2008), biographical psychological drama "Bronson" (2008), sports drama "Warrior" (2011), Cold War espionage film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), crime drama "Lawless" (2012), drama "Locke" (2013), mobster film "The Drop" (2014), and the biographical western thriller "The Revenant" (2015), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
 He portrayed "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the post-apocalyptic film "" (2015), and both of the Kray twins in the crime thriller "Legend" (2015).
 He has appeared in three Christopher Nolan films: the science fiction thriller "Inception" (2010), the superhero film "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), as Bane, and the action-thriller "Dunkirk" (2017), based on the British evacuation in World War II.
 Hardy has been cast as Eddie Brock/Venom in a live-action film adaptation of the same name, set to be released in 2018.
Reba Paige Meagher (born 1967) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of Cabramatta.
 She was a minister in various portfolios from 2003 to 2008.
 On 6 September 2008 Meagher announced that she would not be seeking a ministerial appointment from new Premier Nathan Rees.
 On 13 September 2008 she announced her retirement as a NSW MP.
 She formally resigned on 17 September 2008.
James Anthony Sturgess (born 16 May 1981) is an English actor and singer-songwriter.
 His breakthrough role was appearing as Jude in the musical romance drama film "Across the Universe" (2007).
 In 2008, he played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in "21".
 In 2009, he played Gavin Kossef in the crime drama "Crossing Over", appearing with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd.
 In 2010, Sturgess starred in the film, "The Way Back", directed by Peter Weir.
 Sturgess co-starred in the epic science fiction film "Cloud Atlas", which began filming in September 2011 and was released in October 2012.
Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland.
 It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name.
 It premiered in September 2008, and stars Jim Sturgess as Martin McGartland, a British agent who went undercover into the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ben Kingsley as Fergus, his British handler.