Frank Langella is an American actor of the stage and screen. Over his career he received four Tony Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
For his work on stage he received four Tony Awards, his first two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for playing human-sized lizard in Edward Albee's Seascape (1975) and a Russian aristocrat in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002). He won the later two for Best Actor in a Play for Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2008), and a man dealing with alzheimer's in Florian Zeller's The Father (2016). He was Tony-nominated for playing Count Dracula in Dracula (1978), an aging dance choreographer in Match (2004), and a financier in Man and Boy (2012).
Langella reprised his performance as Richard Nixon in Ron Howard's political drama Frost/Nixon (2008) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Leading Actor in a Motion Picture. He also has received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations Good Night and Good Luck (2005), Captain Fantastic (2016), and finally winning for Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture for Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2019).
On television, he was Primetime Emmy Award-nominated for Outstanding Informational Special for I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind in 1983.