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Frank Langella Jr. is an Italian-American actor. He is the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella. His father was a business executive, and he ran the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company. Langella was born in the city of Bayonne, in New Jersey. He went to the Washington Elementary School and the Bayonne High School. However his family moved to South Orange, New Jersey after that. Thus, he graduated from the Columbia High School situated in the South Orange-Maplewood School District. For his undergraduate studies, he acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama from Syracuse University.

Langella started his career off-Broadway. He did so by acting in Robert Lowell’s play, The Old Glory, before he started working in plays on the Broadway stage. His first such play on Broadway was Garcia-Lorca's "Yerma”. Next, his role was that of a fictionalized version of William Shakespeare. This was in William Gibson’s play, A Cry of Players. Not only did he gain recognition for his roles on Broadway, but he also attained recognition for his roles in films, namely The Twelve Chairs and Diary of a Mad Housewife.

He even received a nomination for a Golden Globe in the category of the Most Promising Newcomer, due to his role in the latter. Langella’s performance in ‘Seascape’ won him his first Tony Award. The role that he was most recognized for in the early parts of his career was, however, that of his role in the Broadway adaptation of ‘ Dracula Dracula is an American and British horror televisi >> Read More... ’. There was a movie version of the same and Langella starred opposite Laurence Olivier in that. Even though he was doing well in films, he never abandoned the Broadway stage.

Moreover, his roles on the stage earned him many awards and nominations. He has won a Drama Desk Award for his role in The Father, a Tony nomination for ‘Match’ and the second Tony Award of his career for Fortune’s Fool. Throughout his career, Langella mixed both film and television with stage acting. He also played Sherlock Holmes in an adaptation of William Gillette’s Sherlock Holmes. He reprised this role again in Sherlock’s Last Case. Next, he portrayed one of his favourite characters playing a villainous part.

He played the character of Skeletor in Masters of the Universe. He acted in the movie, And God Created Woman in 1988. In addition to this, he was also in a three episodes of Star Trek Click to look into! >> Read More... : Deep Space Nine. However, he was not credited for the role. His other television works include the role of Al Baker in an episode of the show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as the recurring role in a sitcom called Kitchen Confidential. He continued with his film work by doing roles such as Clare Quilty in an adaptation of Lolita, as a pirate in Cutthroat Island, as William S. Paley in Good Night, and Good Luck, and as Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet in Superman Returns.

He received much acclaim from critics for the way he efficiently portrayed an elderly novelist in the movie Starting Out in the Evening. Peter Morgan cast him as Nixon in the film Frost/Nixon which played in both London and New York Click to look into! >> Read More... theaters. The same was made into a movie as well, and Langella played the same role. He received the third Tony Award of his career and received nominations for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA awards, all for the same role.

He also got nominated for an Academy Award; however, he lost the award to Sean Penn One of the talented, award winning and intelligent >> Read More... for his performance in ‘Milk’. Langella also acted in a musical as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. His notable work in off-Broadway productions includes the titular role of The Prince Click to look into! >> Read More... of Homburg. He also acted in the 2008 A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More. He was cast in the films The Box and ‘ Unknown Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in the later years of his career. He still carried on with his stage work; he played King Lear in both UK and the United States.

For his many outstanding achievements on stage, in films and television, he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 2012, Frank Langella wrote and published a memoir Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them. His personal life includes his marriage with Ruth Weil, which eventually ended in a divorce in 1996. He has two children with her. In subsequent years, he also lived with Whoopi Goldberg She is one of the few that gave us tremendous laug >> Read More... , but they separated in 2001

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