Lee Pace

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Lee Pace (2014)

Lee Grinner Pace (born March 25, 1979 in Chickasha , Oklahoma ) is an American actor who became famous for his role as Aaron Tyler from the television series Wonderfalls and who played the lead role in the series Pushing Daisies from 2007 to 2008 . He also played the role of the Elven King Thranduil in  Peter Jackson's film adaptation of the Tolkien novel  The Hobbit .

Life

As a child, Pace spent several years in Saudi Arabia as his father worked in the oil industry there. The family later moved to Houston . Pace temporarily dropped out of high school to act at Houston's Alley Theater. He later returned to high school to graduate from school. The productions he starred in at Alley Theater were The Spider's Web and The Greeks . In 1997, Pace was accepted into the drama department of the Juilliard School , where he appeared in several plays. There he completed his training with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

Then Pace played in a few off-Broadway plays (including The Credaux Canvas and The Fourth Sister ). In 2006 he played in the play Guardians by Peter Morris. Guardians brought Pace one his second nomination for the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding actor after he had for the piece Small Tragedy by Craig Lucas was nominated.

Pace first received attention for his role in the 2003 film Soldier's Girl , in which he played Calpernia Addams / Scottie , a transgender woman who meets a soldier. He won a Gotham Award for the role and was nominated for several other awards, including a. the Golden Globe Award . His next leading role was in The Fall , a 2006 fantasy drama directed by Tarsem Singh . Pace plays the suicidal stuntman Roy Walker .

Pace's first major television role was that of Aaron Tyler in the 2004 critically acclaimed but short-lived television series Wonderfalls . He also made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . From 2007 to 2009 he starred in the television series Pushing Daisies . For his portrayal, Pace was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy .

In Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012-2014) he took on the role of the Elven King Thranduil . In Guardians of the Galaxy , a 2014 American science fiction action film, he plays the villain Ronan . He took on this role again in the Marvel film Captain Marvel (2019).

From 2014 to 2017, Pace played the role of Joe MacMillan in the AMC series Halt and Catch Fire .

In 2018, Pace came out as a gay man.

Filmography (selection)

Lee Pace at Comic-Con 2013

Web links

Commons : Lee Pace  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Captain Marvel • Ronan, Korath and Agent Coulson will be part of "Captain Marvel"! In: SuperheldenFilme.net. Retrieved on January 21, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Lee Pace Came Out Seven Times a Week. Then He Came Out for Real . The New York Times, June 4, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Pace, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pace, Lee Grinner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Chickasha , Oklahoma