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Born
January 1, 1938 · Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Birth name
Frank A. Langella Jr.

Spouse
Ruth Weil(November 6, 1977 – November 7, 1995) (divorced, 2 children)

QUOTES:

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?”.

[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.

[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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Born
December 29, 1969 · Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Birth name
Jennifer Anne Ehle

Spouse
Michael Scott Ryan (November 29, 2001 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

I always thought of Pride and Prejudice (1995) as more of a romantic comedy than a period drama. It just happens that they were the clothes people wore when it was written.

[on trying to fit in after moving to Britain from America] There were a few days when I was having trouble finding words to express feelings of enthusiasm. But when I discovered “brilliant”, I was fine.

[nudity in her first role] I wish I’d not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, The Camomile Lawn. When I took the job, I did not realize there would be so much nudity. But no one forced me to do it. I played the young Calypso (her English actress mother, Rosemary Harris, played the character as an older woman) and had some very full-on scenes. I went home one day and was physically sick.