Stephen Lang

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Stephen Lang at San Diego Comic-Con (2011)

Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952 in Queens , New York ) is an American actor .

Life

Lang studied at Swarthmore College until 1973 and graduated with a BA in English Literature. As an actor, he had already worked in a production of Othello while studying at the Hedgerow Theater in Rose Valley , Delaware County , Pennsylvania in 1969 . After graduating, he played at the Folger Theater in Washington in 1974 and made his New York theater debut in Michael Rudman's Hamlet production at Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1975 . This was followed by off-Broadway productions of Henry V and The Winter's Tale, among others, and his Broadway debut in 1977 in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan .

Since then he has appeared in a variety of theatrical productions. So he was in 1984 in the Michael Rudman staged Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's death of a traveling salesman as "Happy" , the second son of Willy Loman portrayed by Dustin Hoffman to see. The celebrated production was then filmed for television by Volker Schlöndorff with the same cast . In the Broadway production of Aaron Sorkins' A Few Good Men , he played Lt. Col. Jessep, the opponent of by Tom Hulce shown young Lt. Coffee. (In the theatrical version, however, Hulce and Lang were replaced by Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson .)

Lang with Michelle Rodríguez on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

For his portrayal of a homeless Vietnam veteran in Steve Tesich's The Speed ​​of Darkness , Lang was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in 1991 . In 1992 he played again in a Hamlet production, this time in the title role. In 2004 he appeared at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in Finishing the P icture , Arthur Miller's last play. Earlier that year, Lang-written Beyond Glory premiered in Arlington , Virginia. In the play, which is based on the documentary book of the same name by Larry Smith , Lang embodies eight Medal of Honor winners . Lang then presented this production (as part of Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts ) on American military bases around the world.

Stephen Lang is comparatively seldom seen in the cinema and television. In the television series Crime Story , he played one of the main characters from 1986 to 1988, the prosecutor David Abrams . His portrayal of the homosexual trade unionist Harry Black in the Selby film adaptation of Last Exit Brooklyn in 1989 received strong critical acclaim .

Since the early 1990s, Lang has been particularly popular in Hollywood as an authoritarian military person or police officer. He played General George E. Pickett in the Civil War epic Gettysburg (1993) and General Stonewall Jackson in the prequel Gods and Generals (2003) . In 2009, Lang was seen several times as the antagonist of the main character in the cinema: In Public Enemies he chases John Dillinger , played by Johnny Depp , as Texas Ranger Winstead , and as the militaristic Colonel Quaritch in Avatar , he urges the hero of the film played by Sam Worthington between the fronts. In the 2011 Conan remake by Marcus Nispel , Lang is the opponent of Conan played by Jason Momoa .

On television, he was from September 2011 to that of Steven Spielberg co-produced the short-lived Fox - sci-fi series Terra Nova to see as a military leader.

Lang has been married to the teacher Kristina Watson since 1980. The two have four children.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

  • 2004: MovieGuide Awards Grace Award for Best Actor for his role in Gods and Generals
  • 2010: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Avatar - Departure for Pandora
  • 2010: Nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Best Villain for his role in Avatar
  • 2010: Nominated for a Teen Choice Award: Best Fight (with Sam Worthington ) for his role in Avatar
  • 2010: Nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for his role in Avatar
  • 2010: Nominated for an MTV Movie Award: Best Fight (with Sam Worthington) for his role in Avatar

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Lang '73 stars in critically acclaimed “Beyond Glory”
  2. ^ The Multiple Personalities of Stephen Lang
  3. ↑ http://filmatical.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/on-public-enemies-part-i-charles-winstead-manns-man/
  4. ↑ Stephen Lang, 'An Actor's Actor'
  5. ↑ Stephen Lang (I) - Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 24, 2013 .

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SURNAME Lang, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York City, New York, United States