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Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella Jr. is an American actor popular for his many roles on the stage and screen. Instead of going down the path of a traditional film star, Langella chose to make the stage his primary platform, performing consistently on Broadway. Throughout his illustrious career, Langella has received multiple accolades, including four Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. His talent has also recognized through various nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globes.
Langella has won four Tony Awards for his outstanding performances in various play productions such as in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon and Florian Zeller's The Father as well as Edward Albee's Seascape and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His role as Richard Nixon in the film adaptation of Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Beyond these, some of Langella's notable roles include performances in 'Dracula (1979)', 'Masters of the Universe (1987)', 'Starting Out in the Evening (2007)', 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)', 'Robot & Frank (2012)', and 'The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)'. He also played Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger in the HBO movie Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013) and had a recurring role in the FX series The Americans (2013–2017). Despite being fired from The Fall of the House of Usher in 2022 following sexual harassment allegations, Langella maintains a long and varied career in the film industry.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Frank A. Langella Jr.
Born: Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
Citizenship: American
Birthday: January 1, 1938
Occupations: Actor
Years Active: 1963-present
Children: 2
Spouses: Ruth Weil
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Awards and Nominations Received by Frank Langella
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Movies Featuring Frank Langella
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Frost/Nixon
Junior
Masters of the Universe
Captain Fantastic
1492: Conquest of Paradise
The Ninth Gate
Robot and Frank
Dracula
Draft Day
Cutthroat Island
Dave
The Box
The Time Being
The Men's Club
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Parts Per Billion
Grace of Monaco
The Prophet
Robot & Frank
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding
The Driftless Area
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Broadway: The Next Generation
Innocents
Cry Baby Lane
Jason and the Argonauts
All the Way
It Takes a Lunatic
Inside High Noon
The Water Is Wide
10.5: Apocalypse
Back in the Day
Now You See It…
Night of 100 Stars
Sphinx
True Identity
Those Lips, Those Eyes
And God Created Woman
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Dracula Unearthed
Angry Neighbors
The Twelve Chairs
Lincoln
Bad Company
Alegría: An Enchanting Fable
The Road to ‘Dracula’
Brainscan
Small Soldiers
The Mark of Zorro
I’m Losing You
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Eddie
The Wrath of God
The Seagull
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