1. Lance Henriksen is known for his roles in various science fiction, action and horror genre productions, including Bishop in the Alien film franchise and Frank Black in the Fox television series Millennium and The X-Files.
42 Facts About Lance Henriksen
1. 2.
Lance Henriksen has done extensive voice work, including the Disney film Tarzan and the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy.
3.
Lance Henriksen was born on May 5,1940, in Manhattan, New York.
4.
Lance Henriksen's father, James Henriksen, was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed "Icewater" who spent most of his life at sea, while his mother, Margueritte Werner, struggled to find work as a dance instructor, waitress and model.
5.
Lance Henriksen's parents divorced when he was two years old, and his mother struggled to raise him and his brother Walter, leading to his spending part of his childhood in foster care.
6.
Lance Henriksen left school after completing first grade, and was illiterate until the age of 30.
7.
Lance Henriksen found work as a muralist and as a laborer on ships.
8.
Lance Henriksen received his first credit in his second film, 1972's It Ain't Easy.
9.
Lance Henriksen auditioned for the role of Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon, but received the smaller part of an FBI agent that kills John Cazale's character.
10.
Lance Henriksen would appear in two more films directed by Sidney Lumet: Network and Prince of the City.
11.
Lance Henriksen had supporting roles in a variety of films, including the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the horror film Damien - Omen II.
12.
Lance Henriksen had a co-starring role in the low-budget horror film Mansion of the Doomed.
13.
Lance Henriksen played Police Chief Steve Kimbrough in Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, the astronaut Walter Schirra in The Right Stuff, actor Charles Bronson in the television film Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story, and a cameo appearance as The King in Super Mario Bros.
14.
Lance Henriksen does appear in the film as Hal Vukovich, a Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department.
15.
Lance Henriksen played the android Bishop in Cameron's film Aliens, and as Bishop's designer Michael Weyland in Alien 3.
16.
Lance Henriksen played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in Alien vs Predator.
17.
Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen are the only actors whose characters were killed by the Terminator, the Alien, and the Predator.
18.
Lance Henriksen played the vampire leader Jesse Hooker in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Near Dark.
19.
Lance Henriksen portrayed gunfighters in the Westerns Dead Man and The Quick and the Dead, and appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Aurora: Operation Intercept in 1995.
20.
Lance Henriksen appeared with Payne again in Face the Evil, and the dystopian classic Paranoia 1.0.
21.
In 1996, Lance Henriksen starred in the television series Millennium, created and produced by Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files.
22.
Lance Henriksen played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who possessed a unique ability to see into the minds of killers.
23.
On television, Lance Henriksen appeared in the ensemble of Into the West, a miniseries executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.
24.
Lance Henriksen guest-starred on a Season 6 episode of NCIS playing an Arizona sheriff, and appeared in a recurring role as The Major on NBC's The Blacklist.
25.
Lance Henriksen provided the voice for the alien supervillain Brainiac in Superman: Brainiac Attacks and for the character Mulciber in Godkiller.
26.
Lance Henriksen is the voice of the character Molov in the video game Red Faction II and has contributed to GUN, Run Like Hell, the canceled title Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the role-playing game Mass Effect as Admiral Hackett of the Human Systems Alliance.
27.
Lance Henriksen was the voice behind PlayStation 3's internet promotional videos.
28.
In 2005, Lance Henriksen was the voice of Andrei Rublev in Cartoon Network's IGPX.
29.
In 2009, Lance Henriksen voiced Lieutenant General Shepherd in the award-winning game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
30.
Lance Henriksen voiced Master Gnost-Dural in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and he reprised his role as Admiral Hackett in Mass Effect 3.
31.
Lance Henriksen reprised his role as Bishop in Aliens: Colonial Marines.
32.
Lance Henriksen starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained and Big Cats.
33.
Lance Henriksen made a cameo appearance in the 2009 horror comedy Jennifer's Body, and starred in the After Dark Horrorfest film, Scream of the Banshee, released in 2011.
34.
Lance Henriksen played Henry Gale in Leigh Scott's The Witches of Oz.
35.
In 2018, Lance Henriksen performed motion capture and vocal performance for the character of Carl Manfred in the video game Detroit: Become Human.
36.
In October 2018, Lance Henriksen was signed for one of the two leads in Falling, the directorial debut of actor Viggo Mortensen, who wrote, produced and co-starred.
37.
Lance Henriksen received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for his performance in Falling.
38.
In 2022, Lance Henriksen was cast in the upcoming American horror film, Awaken the Reaper.
39.
Lance Henriksen was married to Mary Jane Evans from 1985 to 1989 and to Jane Pollack from 1995 to 2006.
40.
Lance Henriksen has five children; three with Pollack, one with Lunde, and a daughter, Monique, with Joan Bottinelli, born 1964.
41.
Lance Henriksen worked as a muralist before he became an actor, and he has worked with clay since 1960.
42.
In September 2017, Lance Henriksen set up a website to showcase and find homes for some of his most recent clay works.