Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938)
[www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/01/21/oscar-nominations-frank-langhella-top-10-facts-you-need-to-know-about-the-academy-award-nominated-frost-nixon-actor-115875-21059440/][www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/movies/awardsseason/04mcgr.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/H/Howard,%20Ron] is an
American stage and film
actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for
Edward Albee's
Seascape (1975), and
Ivan Turgenev's
Fortune's Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as
Richard Nixon in
Peter Morgan's
Frost/Nixon (2008). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the
Edward Gorey-designed revival of
Bram Stoker's
Dracula and again in 2004 for
Stephen Belber's
Match.
Personal life
Langella, an
Italian American,
was born in
Bayonne, New Jersey,
the son of Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive.
Langella attended Washington Elementary School and
Bayonne High School in Bayonne.
[Coutros, Evonne E. "PLAYING A WICKED STREAK FOR ALL IT'S WORTH", The Record (Bergen County). January 23, 1994.] He graduated from Columbia High School, in the South Orange and 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 was married to Ruth Weil from June 14, 1977 to their divorce in 1996. They have two children. He lived with actress/comedian
Whoopi Goldberg, whom he met on the set of
Eddie in 1996, until they separated in March 2001.
