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Frank Langella is an American voice actor, stage actor, film actor, and television actor. Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, in 1938, he is a male human who speaks and writes in English. He began his work period in 1963 and was educated at Syracuse University.
Langella has received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
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Film & TV
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has received four Tony Awards (out of seven nominations) as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Langella's notable film roles include parts in Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Mel Brooks’s The Twelve Chairs (1970), Dracula (1979), Dave (1993), The…
Known for
- Angry Neighbors — Harry March2022
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self2021
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 — Judge Julius Hoffman2020
- It Takes a Lunatic — Self2019
- Love, Antosha — Self2019
- Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding — Self2018
- Kidding — Sebastian Piccirillo2018
- Youth in Oregon — Raymond Engersol2017
- Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — Self - Actor2017
- Marcians — Self - Interviewee2017
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Key facts
- Born
- Frank Alexander Langella Jr. , ( 1938-01-01 ) January 1, 1938 (age 88) , Bayonne, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- Syracuse University ( BA )
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Spouse
- Ruth Weil ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 )
- Partner
- Whoopi Goldberg (1995–2000)
- Awards
- Full list
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frank
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bayonne
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Frank Langella Deauville 2012.jpg
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- Frank Langella
- date of birth
- 1938-01-01
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Frank Alexander Langella Jr. (/lænˈdʒɛlə/; born January 1, 1938) is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades, including four Tony Awards and an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Golden Globes.
Langella made his Broadway debut in the 1966 play Yerma. He went on to win four Tony Awards, his first two for Best Featured Actor in a Play playing an intellectual lizard in Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and a wealthy and cruel landowner in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002) and Best Lead Actor in a Play for his roles as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2007), an elderly man suffering from Alzheimers in Florian Zeller's The Father (2016). He was also Tony-nominated for Dracula (1978), Match (2004), and Man and Boy (2012).
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