About Stephen Lang
Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequels. Lang is also known for roles in films such as Manhunter (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Gettysburg and Tombstone (both 1993), Gods and Generals (2003), Public Enemies, The Men Who Stare at Goats (both 2009), Conan the Barbarian (2011), Don't Breathe (2016) and its sequel Don't Breathe 2 (2021). His television roles include Commander Nathaniel Taylor on Terra Nova (2011), Waldo on Into the Badlands (2015-18), and David Cord on The Good Fight (2021). Besides his film roles, Lang has had an extensive career on Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1992 production of The Speed of Darkness. Other accolades include a Helen Hayes Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award, for his one-man show Beyond Glory, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. From 2004 to 2006, he was co–artistic director of the Actors Studio. He has two elder siblings—Jane, an attorney and activist, and David, who served as an executive at REFAC, the company their father founded in 1952. Lang played Harold (Happy) Loman in the 1984 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman and the 1985 television film with Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, and appeared in the first Hannibal Lecter film Manhunter (1986), as reporter Freddy Lounds.
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