Frank Langella

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Gender: Male
Born: 1st January 1938 (currently 74 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: NET Playhouse, Unscripted, The Beast, Kitchen Confidential, 10.5: Apocalypse, Capitol Law, Jason and the Argonauts
Movies: 10.5: Apocalypse, Cutthroat Island, Dave, Dracula, Good Night, and Good Luck., Lolita, Now You See It..., The Ninth Gate, The Twelve Chairs, And God Created Woman, The Mark of Zorro, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Bad Company, Starting Out in the Evening, Eddie, Small Soldiers, Superman Returns, Body of Evidence, 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Sweet November, Brainscan, The Box, House of D, Frost/Nixon, Jason and the Argonauts, The Seagull, Masters of the Universe, The Tale of Despereaux, True Identity, Doomsday Gun, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Back in the Day, All Good Things, Sphinx, The Caller, Those Lips, Those Eyes, Degas and the Dance, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Stardom, How You Look to Me, Crossroads, Moses, Broadway Theatre Archive: The Prince of Homburg, I'm Losing You, Junior, The Men's Club, Unknown, Moses, Cry Baby Lane, Robot and Frank

Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon (2006), and later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the same role in the film, Frost/Nixon (2008).

Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne. after the family moved to South Orange, New Jersey he graduated from Columbia High School, in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, in 1955, and graduated from Syracuse University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. He remains a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.

Langella appeared off-Broadway (in plays like the American poet Robert Lowell's The Old Glory) before he made his first foray on a Broadway stage in New York in Gacia-Lorca's "Yerma" at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, on December 8, 1966. He followed this role by appearing in

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