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Did you know? George Russell is based after two famous robber barons from The Gilded Age: Jay Gould and Cornelious Vanderbilt. In an interview, Morgan Spector (who plays George Russell) said, "I had been told that he was a little bit based on Jay Gould and [Cornelius] Vanderbilt, so I read up on those people and their biographies, to some extent. I’ve found as much first-person writing by those robber barons," said Spector (via Den of Geek). Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt were railroad and s