Stephen Lang
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Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American screen and stage actor as well as a playwright.
He is best known for his appearances in films including Manhunter (1986), Gettysburg, Tombstone (both 1993), Gods and Generals (2005), Don't Breathe (2016).
He was nominated for his role in The Speed of Darkness, a 1992 Broadway production, and he received the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in James Cameron's Avatar (2009).
He served as co-artistic director of the Actors Studio from 2004 to 2006.
Early life
Lang was born in New York City, the youngest child of Theresa (née Volmar, d. 2008) and Eugene Lang (1919-1977–2017), a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist. Lang's mother was Catholic of German and Irish descent, though his father was Jewish. Lang's paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Russia. He has two younger siblings: Jannee, an advocate and activist, and David, who served as an executive at REFAC, which was founded in 1952. Lang's father donated a considerable portion of his net worth (in excess of $150 million) to charity but did not leave an inheritance to his children, owing to the fact that they both had to learn to become self-sufficient.
Lang attended primary school in Jamaica Estates, Queens. George Ryan Junior High School in nearby Fresh Meadows, a New York City public school, was his middle school. He attended George School, a Quaker boarding school in Newtown, PA, a year earlier (1969) and graduated a year earlier (1969). He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1973 with a degree in English Literature.
Personal life
He has been married to Kristina Watson since 1980, and the family has four children together, including New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang.
Swarthmore gave him an honorary degree in recognition of his work in theatre, television, and film on May 30, 2010. Noah, Noah's youngest son, received his bachelor's degree at the same time. He earned an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Jacksonville University and spent time as an artist in residence at Northeastern University in 2011.
Lang served as a jury member for the Woodstock Film Festival in the fall of 2015.
Career
In the 1984 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman and the 1985 television film starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, Lang played reporter Freddy Lounds, and he appeared in the first Hannibal Lecter film Manhunter (1986). In the television series Crime Story (1986-1988), David Abrams played advocate David Abrams. He appeared in Babe Ruth (1991), the NBC movie Babe Ruth. Tim Daly played "One Armed Man" in The Fugitive, a 2000 revival. The series was a modest success, but it was only a one-season due to the extensive production budget.
He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1992 for his lead role in The Speed of Darkness. His film role in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) earned him acclaim, but the film's limited release prevented it from reaching a large audience. On stage, he was the first to play Colonel Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men (1992), Jack Nicholson's first appearance on film (1992). He is the recipient of over half a dozen theater awards, including the Drama Desk and Helen Hayes awards.
He starred Maj. George Pickett in Gettysburg (1993) and in the lead role of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in the Gettysburg prequel Gods and Generals (2003), both from director Ronald F. Maxwell.
Lang appeared in his long-time buddy's last play, titled Finishing the Picture, shortly before Arthur Miller's death in February 2005. It premiered in 2004 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where Lang had the second run of his own play, Beyond Glory, which premiered in Arlington, Virginia, in 2004, as well as his Tony-nominated portrayal of The Speed of Darkness. Lang also performed Beyond Glory, a one-man performance for troops deployed abroad. In John Patrick Shanley's play Defiance, he appeared as Colonel Littlefield in 2006. In 2007, he brought Beyond Glory to the Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theatre in Roundabout. Beyond Glory has been nominated for both a Drama Desk Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding solo work since its debut in New York City. A film adaptation of the play has been produced and released.
Lang appears in The Bronx Is Burning, as well as roles in independent films Save Me and From Mexico with Love. He plays a lead role in James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar as Colonel Quaritch.
He appeared in Michael Mann's film Public Enemies as FBI Agent Charles Winstead, the man widely suspected of firing John Dillinger's death, and in Grant Heslov's The Man Who Was Killing Goats with Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor, and George Clooney, and George Clooney.
He also narrated the audiobook Road Rage, which incorporates Richard Matheson's short stories "Duel" and "Throttle" by Stephen King and Joe Hill's book "Revolution" in the role of Axel Kaspers in 2009. He narrated "The Gettysburg Story: Battlefield Auto Tour," the top-selling audio tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 2010. It's written and produced by filmmaker Jake Boritt and based on works by historian Gabor Boritt, it tells the tale of the Battle of Gettysburg and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg National Cemetery. Lang is also the narrator of Maryland Public Television's companion public television documentary The Gettysburg Story.
In the 2011 Conan the Barbarian revival starring Jason Momoa, Lang played the villain Khalar Zym. Nathaniel Taylor, one of the leads in Steven Spielberg's-produced TV series Terra Nova, appeared alongside him.
In February 2012, he agreed to appear Mary Shannon's estranged father in a three-episode film adaptation of In Plain Sight, the United States television series In Plain Sight's final season.
Lang appeared in The Monkey's Paw for Chiller television in 2013.
Lang has been confirmed as returning to his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in the forthcoming sequels to Avatar.
Increase Mather, a regular character on WGN America's first original scripted series Salem, stars Kevin Mather.
Lang is a protagonist in AMC's martial-arts film Into the Badlands. In Fede lvarez' hit horror-thriller Don't Breathe (2016), he played The Blind Man, which attracted raves. In 2021, he reprised his role in Don't Breathe 2 as the protagonist.
Lang lobbied for the role Cable in Deadpool 2 in February 2016 through captioned Twitter photos. Josh Brolin took the role in the end. In 2017, he portrayed Colonel Abraham Biggs in Hostiles, a film directed by Scott Cooper. He appeared as father of Joe Braven (Jason Momoa), Linden Braven, and starred Shrike in Mortal Engines, which Peter Jackson produced for Universal Pictures and Media Rights Capital.