About
| Birth Notes: | 11 July 1952, New York City, New York, USA |
| Height: | 5' 10 1/2" |
| Family: | * 'Kristina Watson' (1 June 1980 - present); 4 children |
| Biography: | A stage actor of great recognition, Stephen Lang has shaped a formidable career on and off the various stages of the United States and abroad. Broadway roles include a Tony-nominated performance as a homeless man in 'The Speed of Darkness', Happy in the Dustin Hoffman revival of 'Death of a Salesman', Colonel Jessep in 'A Few Good Men', and a thief alongside Quentin Tarantino and Marisa Tomei in 'Wait Until Dark'. Off-Broadway credits include John Patrick Shanley's 'Defiance', Anne Nelson's 'The Guys', Arthur Miller's 'Finishing the Picture', and his own play 'Beyond Glory' for which he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Television and Film credits include celebrated performances as Babe Ruth and Stonewall Jackson in 'Babe Ruth' and 'Gods and Generals' respectively, as well as acclaimed performances in 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', 'Tombstone', 'Gettysburg', Michael Mann's hit TV show 'Crime Story', and an NBC revival of 'The Fugitive' featuring Tim Daly. He has been nominated for and won numerous awards including the Grace Prize, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Helen Hayes, and Tony awards. |
Filmography
| Avatar (2009) as Colonel Miles Quaritch |
| Fire Down Below (1997) as Earl Kellogg |
| From Mexico with Love (2009) as Big Al Stevens |
| Gettysburg (1993) as Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett |
| Gods and Generals (2003) as Lt. Gen. Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson |
| Guilty as Sin (1993) as Phil Garson |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) as Harry Black |
| Niagara, Niagara (1997) as Claude |
| Project X (1987) as Watts |
| Public Enemies (2009) as Charles Winstead |
| Save Me (2007) as Ted |
| The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995) as Michael Tyler |
| The Hard Way (1991) as Party Crasher |
| The I Inside (2003) as Mr. Travitt |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) as Brigadier General Dean Hopgood |
| The Treatment (2006) as Coach Galgano |
| Tombstone (1993) as Ike Clanton |
| An Occasional Hell (1996) as Alex Laughton |
| Another You (1991) as Rupert Dibbs |
| Band of the Hand (1986) as Joe |
| Christina (2010) as Inspector Edgar Reinhardt |
| Conan (2011) as Khalar Zym |
| D-Tox (2002) as Jack Bennett |
| Dancehall (2012) as Special Investigator Brint |
| False Creek Stories (2010) as Narrator |
| Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow (2005) |
| Loose Women (1997) as Prophet Buddy |
| Manhunter (1986) as Freddy Lounds |
| Shadow Conspiracy (1997) as The Agent |
| Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011) as Barry Rogers |
| Story of a Bad Boy (1999) as Spygo |
| Tall Tale (1995) as Jonas Hackett |
| The Money Shot (1996) |
| The Proposal (2001) as Simon Bacig |
| Trixie (2000) as Jacob Slotnick |
| Twice in a Lifetime (1985) as Keith |
| We Fight to Be Free (2006) as Dr. James Craik |
| White Irish Drinkers (2010) |
Trivia
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* Graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. * Has four children: Noah, Grace, Dan, Lucy. * Has narrated numerous audiobooks and was recently awarded the Audiofile Earphone award. * Shared a house with Billy Campbell in Santa Monica, California before purchasing his own house. * Was nominated for Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for "The Speed of Darkness." * Is one of four "Crime Story" (1986) stars to appear in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. He starred with Dennis Farina and Bill Smitrovich in Manhunter (1986), and Ted Levine played "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs (1991). * Runs the famed Actors Studio in New York along with Lee Grant , Al Pacino and others. * Played Colonel Jessep in the hit Broadway show "A Few Good Men." Jack Nicholson enacted the stern, officious "You can't handle the truth!" role when it moved to film starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore. * Played Happy, one of Dustin Hoffman's sons, in the acclaimed 1984 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman." John Malkovich played the other son, Biff. * Gave special performances of his one-man show "Beyond Glory," which deals with America's greatest war heroes who were awarded the Medal of Honor, for both the U.S. Senate in Washington and the U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf. The show was backed by The National Endowment for the Arts. * He and Julianne Moore have both appeared in separate films from the Hannibal Lecter series: Manhunter (1986) and Hannibal (2001). Julianne Moore also had a small part in the film The Fugitive (1993). Lang appeared in the remake of the television series "The Fugitive" (2000), as the one-armed man. * Has appeared in two films about serial killers: Manhunter (1986) and The Hard Way (1991). Manhunter was based on the novel Red Dragon. * While many Gettysburg (1993) cast members reprised their roles in the prequel Gods and Generals (2003), Lang was one of several actors (and the most prominent one) to play two different characters. He played George Pickett in "Gettysburg" and General Stonewall Jackson in "Gods and Generals". * Has appeared in two films about historical figures that featured real-life descendants of those characters. In 1993, he appeared in Tombstone (1993), which featured Wyatt Earp a distant cousin of the famous lawman. He later appeared in Gods and Generals (2003), in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee is played by his real-life descendant, Robert Duvall. * He was awarded the 1989 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for "The Speed of Darkness" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. * He was nominated for a 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Solo Performance for "Beyond Glory" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. * Was considered for the role of Rex Van De Camp on "Desperate Housewives" (2004). * Auditioned for the role of Corporal Dwayne Hicks in James Cameron 's Aliens (1986) but lost to James Remar, who was then replaced by Michael Biehn. Ironically, years later Lang was cast as Colonel Quaritch in Cameron's Avatar (2009) after Cameron decided against casting his original choice for the part, Michael Biehn, feeling that having Biehn in the film along with Sigourney Weaver would have made the film feel too much like Aliens. * Lives in Kinderhook, New York. * He received an honorary degree from Swarthmore College in 2010. |
Quotes
| * "It's not about flag waving to me, it's about showing a real American hero" - about his role as Stonewall Jackson |
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