Biography
Stephen Lang is an American theater actor who became famous in cinema. The performer is distinguished by a special skill of deep immersion in the role, which highlights its characters from the turn of others and makes them attractive in the eyes of the audience.Childhood and youth
Stephen was born in New York in the family of Teresa Folmer and the entrepreneur and Philantopa Yujina Lang. Lang senior became famous for the whole world by the fact that in the will a 150 million fortune left for charity, having deprived children of inheritance. Eugene pursued one goal: sons and daughter must learn to ensure their lives. The actor has an older sister Jane, who became a lawyer, and Brother David, who led one of the Father's companies.
The future actor first studied at a free public school in Queens, and in high schools he got to the boarding school "Newtown" in Pennsylvania. In the same state, he entered the university, to the prestigious private Suormore College, who graduated from the Master's degree in English literature.
By the way, many years later, the leadership of the college awarded Lang a scientific degree in recognition of his outstanding theatrical and cinematic career. The actor is also an honorary doctor of humanitarian science at the University of Jacksonville.
Having received a diploma, the newly minted graduate was trying to decide what to do, and chose it for himself in the soul - went to the scene. Gradually, Stephen became a bright and demanded actor.
For the performance of the role in the play "Speed of Darkness", Lang received the honorary theatrical award "Tony", followed by another ten awards for other performances. The skill of theatrical performance of Lang shared with the audience of the acting studio in New York. It was the Same School in which Grant and Karlin Glinn were taught, one of the leading US teachers. From 2004 to 2006, Stephen Lang and he himself taught institutions to students and was the artistic director of the studio.
Films
Lang began to appear in the middle of the 1980s. The first work in the artist filmography was the role in the psychological drama "Death of the Comm Woman", where the young man appeared in the acting ensemble with Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reed and John Malkovich.Then followed the work in the criminal thriller "Hunter for People". Stephen reincarnated in the reporter of the popular publication. The film is famous for the fact that he was first appeared by the hero Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer, helping the investigation. The picture was supposed to wear the same name as the book of Thomas Harris, - "Red Dragon", but because of the fact that the film "Year of the Dragon" came out at the same time, I decided to rename tape.
Famous on America's scale, after execution of the main role in the social drama "The Last Turn to Brooklyn", based on the novel by Hubert Selby. The tape received several awards in Germany and the United States.
In the hettisberg drama, the actor played Major General George Edward Pikette. The tape of the famous battle between the armies of the North and the South during the Gettisberg was timed to the 130th anniversary of the battle and abounded by details approaching her to the historical event. For this purpose, thousands of volunteers-reconstructors have worked on the site in addition to artists.
Another picture dedicated to the iconic events in the history of the state - a shootout at Korral O-kei, in the cinematic biography of the actor was Western "Tumstone: The Legend of the Wild West", where the main roles were performed by Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, and Stephen embodied the image of one of the silver miners Hayka Klenton.
The main character of Stephen Langu was a chance to play in the married painting "The striking adventures of Panda", the shooting of which was held in China and Canada.
Soon in the actor repertoire, work appears in the science fiction series "Beyond the Possible", which was distinguished by the form of the narration. There was no pass-through lines in the television series, each series was created as a full telephone.
All over the world they started talking about Stephen Langa in 2009, when the science fiction film James Cameron "Avatar" was released on the screens, which beat cash records and a series of prestigious premiums, including Oscar, Golden Globe and Bafta. In this film, the actor played Colonel Miles Quoritcha.
Another image of the military commander of Nathaniel Taylor Stephen embodied in fiction "Terra Nova". It is noteworthy that the creators used a part of the decorations previously involved in the franchise "Park of the Jurassic period".
Great self-dedication and acting demanded from Lang, the role of the blind in the thriller "not breathe". For persuasive, the artist put on contact lenses, which gave it the necessary expressiveness, but also made it difficult to work, limiting vision. The film was awarded a number of awards, including the Saturn Prize.
A year later, the main role was followed in the dramatic western "enemies", where Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Satude and Ben Foster were partners on the shooting area.
The image of a murder machine - Polurobot Schrac got Stephen in a fantastic militant "Chronicles of Pain Cities". Despite the character of the hero, Lang found in it human features - the artist believes that if he does not understand, they will not justify and will not love the character, the audience will not be able to do this.
Personal life
Stephen Lang refers to the category of male family mans. His personal life has gained stability in 1980, when the actor married an artist in the costumes and teacher of clothing design Kristine Watson and since then happily lives with her. Never actor was noticed in some incinerators on the side and therefore contrasts with many Hollywood colleagues.
Four children were born in Stephen and his wife: the daughters of Lucy and Grace and the sons of Daniel and Noah.
Despite age, the actor continues to visit the gym regularly. Lang is engaged in a carefully planned training complex, the exercises for which has developed independently. Thanks to the sport, the artist, whose height is 179 cm, maintains an excellent physical form and controls the weight gain, which can be judged by the photo by which the Contractor shares with subscribers in the Account in "Instagram".
Stephen Lang now
Age does not affect the artist's career at all, now its schedule is not less loaded than in youth.Interesting experience was Stephen's participation in the horror film "Student Exorcist", which started in the spring of 2021. According to the actor, which embodied the image of Archbishop in the frame, he was the first to play a person with such high moral implications capable of bold spiritual impulses.
The limitations caused by the coronavirus pandemic accompanied the shooting of the continuation of the thriller "Do not breathe" almost all the time, but Lang believes that this did not prevent the process, as isolation is a natural atmosphere of this tape. The director of the first part of Federico Alvarez began writing a continuation scenario back in 2016, but in the chair of the director this time, Rodolfo Sagield replaced him. Shooting the paintings took place in Belgrade and several times were postponed due to the epidemiological situation in the world. The film premiere took place in the summer of 2021.
Another continuation in which Stephen was again invited, "Avatar-2" James Cameron became. Location for the painting director chose New Zealand, where he has its own real estate. Returning to the role of Colonel Kuoritcha did not require from Lang to build muscle mass, as the first part, now, on the idea of the author, his character became slimmer.
Filmography
- 1985 - "Death of the Commizationager"
- 1989 - "Last Turn to Brooklyn"
- 1990-2009 - "Law and Order"
- 1993 - "Gettisberg"
- 1995 - "The striking adventures of Panda"
- 1995-2002 - "Beyond the Possible"
- 2006-2014 - "Clearvideo"
- 2009 - "Mad Special Forces"
- 2009 - "Avatar"
- 2011 - "Conan-Barbarian"
- 2011 - "Terra Nova"
- 2016 - "Do not breathe"
- 2017 - "Nefs"
- 2018 - "Wild"
- 2018 - "Chronicles of Pain Cities"
- 2018-2021 - "Newbie"
- 2020 - "Apprentice Exorcist"
- 2021 - "Do not breathe 2"