Frank Langella
Frank Langella [ ˌ lænʤɛlʌ ] ( born January 1, 1938 in Bayonne, New Jersey ) is an American actor.
Life
Frank Langella was born in 1938 in New Jersey. In the course of his studies at Syracuse University, he developed a passion for some classics of literature - Molière, Racine, Shakespeare - and also received his first award as an actor. At age 23, he celebrated his New York stage debut in André Gide's L' piece Immoraliste. A new production of Bram Stoker's Dracula became in the 1970s one of his greatest Broadway successes; the piece made especially for long- Ella's radical reinterpretation of the blood-sucking Count sensation.
In the cinema Langella was first seen in 1970: His debut in Diary of adultery brought him straight away the Best Actor Award at the prestigious National Board of Review and Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor in. He also played in René Clément's The house among the trees on the side of Faye Dunaway, in John Badham's Dracula, Ridley Scott's 1492 - Conquest of Paradise, Uli Edel's Body of Evidence, in Ivan Reitman's Junior and Dave, Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island and in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate. His role as Skeletor in the toy figure adaptation of Masters of the Universe took Langella claims to wish his son's, but fell asleep during the premiere.
For his role in Edward Albee's stage play Seascape, he received the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. The title role in Dracula earned him a Tony and a Dramalogue Award nomination. Also for his depictions in other plays Langella received numerous awards. His achievements in diary of adultery and Mel Brooks ' The Twelve Chairs were awarded with Golden Globe nominations; his appearance in the CBS movie I, Leonardo with an Emmy nomination. In 2007 he received for his role as Richard Nixon in the play Frost / Nixon again the Tony for best actor. 2008 Langella repeated the part in the eponymous movie adaptation of Frost / Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, which earned him another nomination in 2009 for a Golden Globe Award and his first Oscar nomination.
In 1978 he married Ruth Weil, the marriage ended in divorce in 1996. The couple has two children together.