Frank Langella
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Frank Langella

Born 1 January 1938 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
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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 Ninth Gate (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), All Good Things (2010), Robot & Frank (2012), Noah (2014), Captain Fantastic (2016), and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020). On television, Langella had recurring roles in The Americans (2013–2017) and Kidding (2018–2020).

Known for

Captain Fantastic
Noah
Superman Returns
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Unknown
The Ninth Gate
The Trial of the Chicago 7
American Dad!
Small Soldiers
Lolita
The Box
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Angry Neighbors
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Youth in Oregon
Captain Fantastic
All the Way
The Driftless Area
Noah
Draft Day
Grace of Monaco
5 to 7
Parts Per Billion
Muppets Most Wanted
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Robot & Frank
The Time Being
Unknown
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
All Good Things
The Box
Frost/Nixon
The Caller
The Tale of Despereaux
Starting Out in the Evening
Superman Returns
Crossroads
The Water Is Wide
Capitol Law
Return to Rajapur
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Now You See It...
Back in the Day
How You Look to Me
House of D
111 Gramercy Park
Inside High Noon
Sweet November
Innocents
Stardom
Cry Baby Lane
The Ninth Gate
Alegría
Small Soldiers
I'm Losing You
Lolita
Eddie
Cutthroat Island
Bad Company
Junior
Brainscan
Doomsday Gun
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Body of Evidence
Dave
1492: Conquest of Paradise
True Identity
And God Created Woman
Masters of the Universe
The Men's Club
Liberty
Sphinx
Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner
Those Lips, Those Eyes
Dracula
The Prince of Homburg
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Seagull
The Mark of Zorro
The Wrath of God
The Deadly Trap
Diary of a Mad Housewife
The Twelve Chairs
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