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Stephen Lang

スティーヴン・ラング　/　すてぃーゔん・らんぐ

American stage actor

July 11, 1952 (age 73)　・　New York City, New York, United States

New York
stage actor
film actor
television actor

My Take

Stephen Lang fascinates me because Colonel Quaritch should have been a cardboard villain, and in anyone else's hands he probably would have been. Lang gave him conviction, physicality, and a strange integrity that made Avatar's central conflict actually land. That doesn't come from the gym alone; it comes from decades of stage work and a Swarthmore-trained mind that takes character seriously. I love that he hit global fame in his late fifties and then doubled down, returning for the sequels in peak condition. He is living proof that there is no expiration date on intensity. Among Hollywood's great character actors, I would rank his commitment near the very top.

Overview

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.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Stephen Lang
Name (Japanese): スティーヴン・ラング
Reading: すてぃーゔん・らんぐ
Born: July 11, 1952 (age 73)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Cancer / Dragon
Origin: New York City, New York, United States
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Occupation: stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

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University: Swarthmore College

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Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0

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