Cris Lankenau (born June 24, 1981) is an American actor.Cris Lankenau
was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Orlando and Boca Raton,
Florida. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.After leaving high
school in Boca Raton, Lankenau moved to New York and joined with the
growing creative community centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working
as a DJ and writing occasionally for Vice magazine. He soon met
filmmakers Aaron Katz and Brendan McFadden and was cast as the lead in
Katz’ second feature film, Quiet City. Lankenau and co-star Erin
Fisher wrote much of their own dialogue for the movie and according to
director Katz: "I had a full 120-page script, but when it came time to
shoot it, everything was in the actors' own words. The structure
compares to the script scene by scene, but the things that happen in
each scene happened through the actors. A lot of times, things would
happen in the first take that would be unexpected, and we would talk
about how to incorporate them into the scene." Both Lankenau and
Fisher received a writing credit on the film and for improvising the
music for the closing credits. The film was well received by critics
and was nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the 2007 Independent
Spirit Awards.Lankenau worked with Katz again as the lead in his 2010
mystery, Cold Weather playing Doug, the aimless, Sherlock Holmes
obsessed brother to Trieste Kelly Dunn’s character Gail. As with
Quiet City, director Katz encouraged the two leads to improvise
dialogue and even went so far as to arrange “brother and sister
dates†for the actors so they could bond and develop a more natural
and authentic sibling relationship on screen. The film received
positive reviews and of Lankenau and co-star Raúl Castillo, Chicago
Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote: “Cris Lankenau and Raúl
Castillo as Doug and Carlos do a very difficult thing here, which is
to play young male friends without the slightest shadow of Buddy Movie
Syndrome.â€
was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Orlando and Boca Raton,
Florida. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.After leaving high
school in Boca Raton, Lankenau moved to New York and joined with the
growing creative community centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working
as a DJ and writing occasionally for Vice magazine. He soon met
filmmakers Aaron Katz and Brendan McFadden and was cast as the lead in
Katz’ second feature film, Quiet City. Lankenau and co-star Erin
Fisher wrote much of their own dialogue for the movie and according to
director Katz: "I had a full 120-page script, but when it came time to
shoot it, everything was in the actors' own words. The structure
compares to the script scene by scene, but the things that happen in
each scene happened through the actors. A lot of times, things would
happen in the first take that would be unexpected, and we would talk
about how to incorporate them into the scene." Both Lankenau and
Fisher received a writing credit on the film and for improvising the
music for the closing credits. The film was well received by critics
and was nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the 2007 Independent
Spirit Awards.Lankenau worked with Katz again as the lead in his 2010
mystery, Cold Weather playing Doug, the aimless, Sherlock Holmes
obsessed brother to Trieste Kelly Dunn’s character Gail. As with
Quiet City, director Katz encouraged the two leads to improvise
dialogue and even went so far as to arrange “brother and sister
dates†for the actors so they could bond and develop a more natural
and authentic sibling relationship on screen. The film received
positive reviews and of Lankenau and co-star Raúl Castillo, Chicago
Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote: “Cris Lankenau and Raúl
Castillo as Doug and Carlos do a very difficult thing here, which is
to play young male friends without the slightest shadow of Buddy Movie
Syndrome.â€
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