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Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British and American actor. He is known for roles on the stage and screen. Molina has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a British Independent Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
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entertainment · British actor (born 1953) · film actor · stage actor · actor · film producer · television actor · also Alfred Molina, Alfredo Molina, Molina
Born 24 May 1953 · Q296028
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2026· 3 entries
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Voiced the character of Benjamin Franklin in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of the musical 1776
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2024· 1 entry
Molina returned to Broadway playing Professor Serebryakov in a revival of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya (2024)
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: 'My father thought actors were one step above cat burglars!': Alfred Molina meets David Oyelowo
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Father review - Alfred Molina is tremendous in Florian Zeller’s tragic farce
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Molina appeared in David Oyelowo's drama The Water Man, and Emerald Fennell's black comedy thriller Promising Young Woman
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2017· 1 entry
Portrayed film director Robert Aldrich in Ryan Murphy's FX limited series Feud: Bette & Joan
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Alfred Molina: ‘My mother and I had a few moments that were like the third act of Aida’
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The Guardian: On my radar: Alfred Molina’s cultural highlights
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2013· 1 entry
That he owes his stage and film career to the Indiana Jones series
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2010· 2 entries
Molina starred opposite Dawn French in the six-part BBC sitcom Roger & Val Have Just Got In, with a second series in 2012
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For Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
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2007· 1 entry
Molina narrated a 17-part original audiobook for Audible
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2006· 1 entry
Molina portrayed Touchstone in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's As You Like It and appeared in Ron Howard's adaptation of The Da Vinci Code
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2005· 1 entry
In two other Law & Order franchise shows, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Trial by Jury
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2004· 1 entry
Molina returned to the stage, starring as Tevye in the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof
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2000· 1 entry
Molina appeared in Lasse Hallström's Chocolat which received critical acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination
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1998· 1 entry
And subsequently performed on Broadway as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Mark Rothko in Red
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Molina starred with Marisa Tomei in The Perez Family, playing Cuban refugees who pretend to be married so they can more easily stay in America
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Released album “Destry Rides Again”.
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1993· 1 entry
Appeared in the BBC miniseries adaptation of A Year in Provence, playing the annoying Tony, along with John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan
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1986· 1 entry
Molina married actress Jill Gascoine in Tower Hamlets, London
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1962· 1 entry
And the relationship between actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford played by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange respectively
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-05-24.
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