47 Facts About Frank Langella

Frank Langella eschewed the career of a traditional film star by making the stage the focal point of his career, appearing frequently on Broadway.

Frank Langella has received four Tony Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Frank Langella was Tony-nominated for Dracula, Match, and Man and Boy.

On television, Frank Langella portrayed Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger in the HBO movie Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight and Senator Richard Russell Jr.

Frank Langella had a recurring role as Gabriel, the KGB handler for the lead characters in the FX series The Americans and Sebastian Piccirillo in the Showtime tragicomedy series Kidding.

Frank Langella, an Italian American, was born January 1,1938 in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Frank Langella is the son of Angelina Barbato and Frank A Langella Sr.

Frank Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne.

Frank Langella appeared off-Broadway before he made his first foray onto a Broadway stage in New York in Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, on December 8,1966.

Frank Langella followed this role by appearing in William Gibson's A Cry of Players, playing a young, highly fictionalized William Shakespeare opposite Anne Bancroft in 1968.

Frank Langella won his first Tony Award for his performance in Edward Albee's Seascape in 1975 and was nominated again for what may have been the performance for which he was best known in the early part of his career: the title role of the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula.

Frank Langella continued to alternate film and television roles with his stage work, playing Sherlock Holmes in a 1981 adaptation of William Gillette's play Sherlock Holmes.

Frank Langella repeated the role on Broadway in 1987 in Charles Marowitz's play Sherlock's Last Case.

That same year, Frank Langella portrayed the villain Skeletor in Masters of the Universe, one of his favorite parts.

In 1982 Frank Langella portrayed Antonio Salieri the Broadway production of Amadeus replacing Ian McKellen.

Frank Langella portrayed Prospero in the revival of William Shakespeare revival The Tempest.

In 1993, Frank Langella made a three-episode appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the devious Bajoran Minister Jaro Essa.

Frank Langella played a supporting role in the Ivan Reitman comedy Junior with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson.

In 1996, Frank Langella starred in the Broadway revival of August Strindberg's The Father.

That same year, Frank Langella starred in the comedy film Eddie, starring Whoopi Goldberg, with whom he was involved romantically until 2000.

Frank Langella played Clare Quilty in the 1997 film adaptation of Lolita, starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith.

In 1999, Frank Langella starred opposite Johnny Depp in Roman Polanski's film The Ninth Gate.

In 2000, Frank Langella played Ebenezer Scrooge in a musical version of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden.

Frank Langella has appeared in notable off-Broadway productions, including in the title role of Robert Kalfin's Chelsea Theater Center production of The Prince of Homburg, which was filmed by PBS for the Theatre in America series.

Frank Langella returned to the stage in the 2002 Broadway revival of the Ivan Turgenev play Fortune's Fool.

The production received critical acclaim with Frank Langella winning his second Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play.

Frank Langella received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, his fourth nomination.

Frank Langella starred as Sir Thomas More in the 2008 Broadway revival of A Man for All Seasons.

Frank Langella reprised the role of Nixon in the 2008 Oscar-nominated film of the play directed by Ron Howard.

Frank Langella earned Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA nominations for Best Actor for the same performance.

Frank Langella was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Actor category for the role, losing to Sean Penn's performance in Milk.

Frank Langella appeared in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns as Daily Planet editor Perry White.

Frank Langella was praised as well with the Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 2007 for his sensitive portrayal of an elderly novelist in Starting Out in the Evening.

In late 2009, Frank Langella starred in the Richard Kelly film The Box with Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.

In 2011, Frank Langella starred in the drama thriller Unknown, opposite Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.

In 2013, Langella starred as Chief Justice Warren E Burger in the Stephen Frears' HBO film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, with Christopher Plummer playing Justice John Marshall Harlan.

In October and November 2013, Frank Langella played King Lear at the Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre in Chichester, UK.

Frank Langella played Cleveland Browns owner Anthony Molina in the movie Draft Day, which starred Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, and Dennis Leary.

In 2015, Frank Langella joined the cast of FX's critically praised drama The Americans with Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.

In 2016, Langella played the title role in Doug Hughes' production of the US premiere of Florian Zeller's play The Father at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway.

Frank Langella won his fourth Tony Award for that performance.

Frank Langella starred in the HBO television movie All the Way as Senator Richard Russell Jr.

From 2018 to 2020, Frank Langella appeared as Sebestian in Showtime's Kidding, starring Jim Carrey.

In 2020, Frank Langella played Judge Julius Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Frank Langella was married to Ruth Weil from November 6,1977, to their divorce in 1995.

Frank Langella lived with actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, whom he met on the set of Eddie, from 1995 until they separated in 2000.

Frank Langella published a memoir in 2012 called Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them.