Frank A. Langella, Jr. was born on 1 January 1938, in Bayonne, New Jersey USA, of part-Italian descent, and is an actor, known for winning four Tony Awards over the course of his career. One of his most celebrated performances was in “Frost/Nixon”, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for the film adaptation. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Frank Langella? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $5 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting. Other award winning performances include “The Father”, “Seascape” and “Fortune’s Fool”, but all of his achievements have ensured the position of his wealth.
Frank Langella Net Worth $5 million
Frank attended Bayonne High School but later moved to Columbia High School. After matriculating, he attended Syracuse University in 1955, graduating four years later with a degree in drama.
Langella then started appearing in stage productions, starting with the off-Broadway plays “The Immortalist” and “The Old Glory”. He then made his first Broadway appearance in “Yerma” in 1966, and continued with numerous stage performances, before finding film popularity in “The Twelve Chairs” and “Diary of a Mad Housewife” – his performances increased his net worth significantly.
In 1975, he got his first Tony Award in “Seascape” before being nominated again in what was considered one of his best performances during the early part of his career, in “Dracula”. He then followed it up with “The Father” and “Match” before getting another Tony Award in “Fortune’s Fool”.
Frank would continue with numerous opportunities which helped his net worth rise. He appeared in the stage play “Sherlock Holmes”, and reprised the role in 1987’s “Sherlock’s Last Case”. In the same year, he was cast in “Masters of the Universe” as Skeletor, before co-starring in the film “And God Created Woman”. He made guest appearances in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and continued this streak in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” as well as “Kitchen Confidential”. In 2005, he was cast in “Good Night, and Good Luck” and was added to “Superman Returns” the following year. He received a lot of critical acclaim for his performance in “Starting Out in the Evening”, which won him a Boston Society of Film Critics Award. He would then get one of his most popular roles in “Frost/Nixon”, in which he played Richard Nixon. The production gained numerous positive reviews leading him to his third Tony Award. He reprised his role in the film “Frost/Nixon” which won him numerous awards leading to an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Langella then continued his stage work with the musical “A Christmas Carol”, before starring in “A Man for All Seasons” In 2009, he was cast in the film “The Box” starring Cameron Diaz, and then starred in the thriller “Unknown”. One of his latest projects is the 2016 production of “The Father”.
For his personal life, it is known that Frank married Ruth Weil in 1977 but they divorced in 1996; they have two children. He also had a relationship with Whoopi Goldberg, but they separated in 2001, since when he has apparently been single.
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding P...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award for ...
Movies
Frost/Nixon, Robot and Frank, Captain Fantastic, Masters of the Universe, Dracula, The Ninth Gate, Superman Returns, The Box, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Cutthroat Island, Grace of Monaco, Starting Out in the Evening, All Good Things, Good Night, and Good Luck, Dave, Draft Day, Unknown, The Twe...
TV Shows
Kitchen Confidential, Unscripted, The Beast, Stephen Hawking's Universe, NET Playhouse
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Trademark
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Frequently plays imposing, menacing villains
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Frequently plays leaders and authority figures
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Rich yet flawless voice
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Quote
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[on his role as Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (1987)] It's one of my favorite parts. I played him because my son was four years old and walked around with a sword yelling "I have the power!". And he loved, loved, loved Skeletor. I didn't even blink when I was offered the role. I couldn't wait to play him.
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[on his portrayal of Count Dracula on Broadway] I don't play him as a hair-raising ghoul. He is a nobleman, an elegant man with a difficult problem... a man with a unique and distinctive social problem: he has to have blood to live and he is immortal.
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[on aging as an actor, and having] ...the horrible and frightening revelation that in order to be good at what you do, you have to go deeper and deeper with each part and have to eviscerate yourself in a way that the man in the audience would never dream of doing. It may be that I keep doing it because I'm afraid to die. It may be that simple fact. The idea of saying, "I did this, I won that, I didn't win that, and now I'll just stop." - that isn't me. I'm a worker. If I don't pit myself against things that are larger than myself, I'm lost.
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As you get older, you learn what you can endure. And I know that I just can't endure living in a trailer in Burbank anymore and saying things like "And what did forensics tell you?".
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There are certain animals in the jungle that you watch, and I like to be one of those. There are other animals about whom you say: "Oh, was he in the play? I didn't notice." I want to be one of the animals you watch. Once I walk out there [on stage], it only matters that I viscerally and emotionally move you. That's my game. My job is to take you right to the edge of every emotion that is required by whatever the character has to do.
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Almost every man I've ever met says to me, "Boy, did my wife make love to me that night, when she saw 'Dracula'.".
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1993 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Scenes from an Execution," at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He did not wear fangs when playing the title character in Dracula (1979). The same was true of Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931).
He has two roles in common with Duncan Regehr: (1) Langella played Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro in The Mark of Zorro (1974) while Regehr played him in Zorro (1990) and (2) Langella played Count Dracula in Dracula (1979) while Regehr played him in The Monster Squad (1987). Both actors also played Bajoran politicians in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
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He has two roles in common with Anthony Hopkins, who is only one day his senior: (1) Langella played Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro in The Mark of Zorro (1974) while Hopkins played him in The Mask of Zorro (1998) and (2) Hopkins played U.S. President Richard Nixon in Nixon (1995) while Langella played him in Frost/Nixon (2008). Both actors also appeared in adaptations of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula": Langella played the title character in Dracula (1979) while Hopkins played his arch-enemy Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula (1992).
Has nystagmus, a condition which causes a person's eyes to move involuntarily.
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Considers Masters of the Universe (1987) one of his favorite movies. He accepted the role of "Skeletor" as a gift to his children - particularly his son, Frank A. Langella III - who were avid fans of the He-Man franchise. Despite an uncomfortable costume and make-up which left him barely recognizable, Langella found said character great fun to play.
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Langella's "date" for the 2009 Academy Awards was his daughter Sarah.
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He and Anthony Hopkins both received Oscar nominations for portraying Richard Nixon: Hopkins for Nixon (1995) and Langella for Frost/Nixon (2008). Although they were born in different years, Hopkins is only one day older than Langella as the former was born on December 31, 1937 while the latter was born on January 1, 1938.
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Is a Brother of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and belonged to the Phi Epsilon chapter at Syracuse University.
Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic), in 1975 for Edward Albee's "Seascape", and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play), in 2002 for "Fortune's Fool". He was also nominated for the Tony two other times as Best Actor (Play): in 1978 for "Dracula", a role he recreated with a different script in the film Dracula (1979), and in 2004 for "Match".
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He was the last actor cast for the science fiction fantasy film Masters of the Universe (1987).
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Won both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for best featured actor in a Broadway play, in "Fortune's Fool" in 2002.
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Won a supporting Tony Award for best featured actor in a Broadway play, in "Seascape" in 1975.
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Won an Obie Award for Best Performance in "The Old Glory" in 1965.
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Lived with actress/comedian Whoopi Goldberg (separated in March 2001).
$5 Million
