Frank A. Langella Jr. (/lænˈdÊ'É›lÉ™/; born January 1, 1938) is an
American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for
Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in
Frost/Nixon and as André in The Father, and two for Best Featured
Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and
Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His reprisal of the Nixon role in the
film production of Frost/Nixon earned him an Academy Award nomination
for Best Actor.Langella has starred in films such as Diary of a Mad
Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs (1970), Dracula
(1979), Masters of the Universe (1987), Dave (1993), Good Night, and
Good Luck (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Robot & Frank
(2012), Captain Fantastic (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7
(2020). He is also known for his performances in the HBO television
films Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), and All the Way (2016). He
had a recurring role as Gabriel, the KGB handler for the lead
characters, in the FX series The Americans (2013-2017), and has played
Sebastian Piccirillo in the Showtime series Kidding
(2018-2020).Langella, an Italian American, was born January 1, 1938,
in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr.,
a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and
Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and
Bayonne High School in Bayonne. After the family moved to South
Orange, New Jersey, he graduated from Columbia High School, in the
South Orange-Maplewood School District, in 1955, and graduated from
Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
drama.Langella appeared off-Broadway (e.g. in The Immoralist at the
Bouwerie Lane Theatre in 1963, and Robert Lowell's The Old Glory in
1965) before he made his first foray on a Broadway stage in New York
in Federico GarcÃa Lorca's Yerma at the Vivian Beaumont Theater,
Lincoln Center, on December 8, 1966. He followed this role by
appearing in William Gibson's A Cry of Players, playing a young,
highly fictionalized William Shakespeare, opposite Anne Bancroft at
the same venue in 1968.
American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for
Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in
Frost/Nixon and as André in The Father, and two for Best Featured
Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and
Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His reprisal of the Nixon role in the
film production of Frost/Nixon earned him an Academy Award nomination
for Best Actor.Langella has starred in films such as Diary of a Mad
Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs (1970), Dracula
(1979), Masters of the Universe (1987), Dave (1993), Good Night, and
Good Luck (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Robot & Frank
(2012), Captain Fantastic (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7
(2020). He is also known for his performances in the HBO television
films Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), and All the Way (2016). He
had a recurring role as Gabriel, the KGB handler for the lead
characters, in the FX series The Americans (2013-2017), and has played
Sebastian Piccirillo in the Showtime series Kidding
(2018-2020).Langella, an Italian American, was born January 1, 1938,
in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr.,
a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and
Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and
Bayonne High School in Bayonne. After the family moved to South
Orange, New Jersey, he graduated from Columbia High School, in the
South Orange-Maplewood School District, in 1955, and graduated from
Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
drama.Langella appeared off-Broadway (e.g. in The Immoralist at the
Bouwerie Lane Theatre in 1963, and Robert Lowell's The Old Glory in
1965) before he made his first foray on a Broadway stage in New York
in Federico GarcÃa Lorca's Yerma at the Vivian Beaumont Theater,
Lincoln Center, on December 8, 1966. He followed this role by
appearing in William Gibson's A Cry of Players, playing a young,
highly fictionalized William Shakespeare, opposite Anne Bancroft at
the same venue in 1968.
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