Frank Langella Highlights

  • 2009: Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (“Frost/Nixon”)
  • 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (“Frost/Nixon”)
  • 2008: Reprised role as Richard Nixon for the film adaption of "Frost/Nixon"; directed by Ron Howard
  • 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (“Frost/Nixon”)
  • 2007: Won a Tony award playing Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's acclaimed Broadway drama "Frost/Nixon"
  • 2007: Played an aging writer in "Starting Out in the Evening"; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actor
  • 2006: Cast as Clark Kent's boss, Perry White, in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns"
  • 2005: Co-starred in David Duchovny's directorial debut "House of D"
  • 2005: Starred in the George Clooney-directed “Goodnight, and Good Luck”
  • 2003: Played Tobi Powell, an aging choreographer and dance teacher in the play "Match"; received a Tony nomination
  • 2002: Appeared opposite Alan Bates in "Fortune's Fool" on Broadway
  • 2001: Co-starred with Joan Collins in the London stage production of "Moon Over Buffalo" (retitled as "Over the Moon); withdrew from production shortly after the opening
  • 2001: Portrayed a shark-like executive in a memorable cameo in the remake of "Sweet November"
  • 2000: Appeared in NBC miniseries, "Jason and the Argonauts"
  • 1999: Played a seemingly fit TV producer who discovers that he stands a good chance of dying within the year of inoperable cancer in "I'm Losing You"
  • 1998: Provided the voice of Archer for Joe Dante's "Toy Soldiers"
  • 1997: Directed, starred in the title role and adapted Edmund Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" in an intimate Off-Broadway setting
  • 1997: Played Claire Quilty in Adrain Lyne's version of "Lolita" (banned from feature release in the USA; aired on Showtime in August 1998)
  • 1996: Earned positive reviews playing the title role in the revival of August Strindberg's searing play "The Father"
  • 1996: Earned acclaim for his Broadway turn as hammy actor Garry Essedine in a revival of Noel Coward's "Present Laughter"
  • 1996: Played the Pharaoh to Ben Kingsley's "Moses" (TNT)
  • 1996: Co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in the film comedy "Eddie"
  • 1994: Appeared as family patriarch Junius Brutus Booth in New York stage production of Austin Pendleton's "Booth"
  • 1993: Portrayed evil White House chief of staff in "Dave"
  • 1993: Starred opposite Madonna (as her ex-lover) in the uneven thriller "Body of Evidence"
  • 1991: Made musical comedy stage debut as Henry Higgins in the Houston Grand Opera staging of "My Fair Lady"
  • 1987: Was unrecognizable as the villain Skeletor in "Masters of the Universe"
  • 1987: Produced and starred on Broadway as Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock's Last Case"
  • 1985: Returned to Broadway as Eddie in David Rabe's acclaimed "Hurlyburly"
  • 1984: Co-starred with Jill Clayburgh in Noel Coward's "Design for Living"
  • 1984: Produced and starred as Quentin in Off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"
  • 1982: Played Salieri on Broadway in "Amadeus"
  • 1980: Undertook role of "Cyrano de Bergerac" for a second time at the Williamstown Theater Festival
  • 1980: Directed playwright Albert Innaurato's "Passione" on Broadway
  • 1979: Reprised "Dracula" for the screen
  • 1977: Scored Broadway triumph in the title role of "Dracula"; earned a Best Actor Tony nomination
  • 1976: Starred with Blythe Danner in Tennessee Williams' "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," at the Williamstown Theater Festival
  • 1975: Broadway debut as a lizard in Edward Albee's "Seascape" earned him a Best Supporting Actor Tony
  • 1975: Appeared in the Williamstown staging of "The Seagull"; filmed for public television's "Theater in America"
  • 1974: First TV-movie, "The Mark of Zorro" (ABC), playing the title role
  • 1973: Made TV debut on an episode of the short-lived romantic anthology series "Love Story" (NBC)
  • 1971: Cast in the title role of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Williamstown Theater Festival
  • 1970: Film debut, "Diary of a Mad Housewife"; also acted that year in Mel Brooks' "The Twelve Chairs"
  • 1969: Stage directing debut with "John and Abigail"
  • 1968: Portrayed a young Will Shakespeare in the stage drama "A Cry of Players"
  • 1967: Acted in the innaugural performance of "The Devils" at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum
  • 1967: First appeared onstage in the play "Dracula"
  • 1963: New York stage debut, "The Immoralist"
  • 1959: Toured Europe with folk-singing group

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