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Frank Langella (born January 1, 1940 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American
stage and movie actor.
He has twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured (Supporting) Actor in a
Play, in 1975 and 2002, and twice been nominated for Best Leading Actor in a
Play, in 1978 and 2004.
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Early in his career he was best known for his success in the title role of
Dracula in the Broadway production designed by Edward Gorey, and a film
version derived from that production. His flowing silk clothes and youthful
appearance were a key point in the transformation of the vampire from the
orginal novel's coarse and bestial monster as portrayed by Nosferatu to the
sleek sexy vampires of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. He was pursuaded to
participate in a film of the Dracula story. Upon his last day of shooting,
Langella reports that he hung the cloak on costume rack firmly knowing he
could never pick it up again for fear of being typecast.
For decades afterward, he largely stayed away from film in order to pursue
serious theatre; however, later years have seen more film and television
work having found a niche; he made a memorable three-episode appearance on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the devious Jaro Essa, and also appeared in a
2003 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and as a villanous pirate
in a summer release 'Cutthroat Island'.
He is a brother of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. |
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