Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective with actor Stephen Lang.
STEPHEN LANG is an actor renowned for his distinguished performances on stage and screen.
Lang is perhaps best known for his role as ‘Colonel Miles Quaritch’ in James Cameron's billion- dollar AVATAR franchise. He has brought this character life in all three films, AVATAR, AVATAR: WAY OF WATER and the highly anticipated new release AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH out December 19th.
Next up he can be seen starring in Sony’s SISU: Road to Revenge in theatres November 21 and he can currently be seen in season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s biblical drama, HOUSE OF DAVID, as ‘Samuel.”
In 2016, he starred to critical acclaim as ‘The Blind Man’ in writer-director Fede Alvarez’s hit thriller DON'T BREATHE and he reprised his starring role in the film’s sequel, DON’T BREATHE 2.
Recent film roles include BARRON’S COVE, AVENUE OF THE GIANTS, THE LOST CITY for Paramount with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and the much anticipated THE INDEPENDENT with Brian Cox, Jodie Turner-Smith and Ann Dowd. Lang also completed work on PEP, based on the true story of Willie Pep one of the greatest boxers of all time where Lang portrayed his trainer. Other film credits include THE SEVENTH DAY opposite Guy Pearce, director Joe Begos’ action-horror film VFW, BRAVEN, opposite Jason Momoa, and director Scott Cooper’s HOSTILES opposite Christian Bale. Lang’s extensive film credits include BAND OF ROBBERS, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, TOMBSTONE, GETTYSBURG, GODS AND GENERALS, PUBLIC ENEMIES, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, CHRISTINA, A GOOD MARRIAGE, MANHUNTER, BAND OF THE HAND, and CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
Stephen Lang is also an award-winning playwright. He received the "Special Jury Prize for Acting" at the 2016 Phoenix Film Festival for his performance documentary BEYOND GLORY, which tracks the ten year odyssey behind his acclaimed solo performance piece about eight Medal of Honor recipients. The documentary was executive produced and presented by Lightstorm Entertainment principals, James Cameron and Jon Landau, and was acquired for distribution by Gravitas Ventures. BEYOND GLORY, the play itself, has received the NEA Chairman's Medal for Distinguished Service, and the Bob Hope Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, which honors Lang’s accurate portrayal of the American fighting man.
On television Lang starred as Mid-western billionaire ‘David Cord,’ in a flashy recurring role on the hit Paramount+ series THE GOOD FIGHT. He was also the lead role of ‘Hawkeye’ in MARVEL’S WASTELANDER podcast series directed by Rachel Chavkin. Lang portrayed fan-favorite ‘Waldo’ in the first two seasons of AMC's genre-bending martial arts series, INTO THE BADLANDS. His television credits include regular roles on Steven Spielberg's TERRA NOVA, and Michael Mann's classic CRIME STORY, as well as celebrated portrayals of Babe Ruth in NBC's biopic, BABE RUTH, and 'Happy' in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, with Dustin Hoffman.
His work on the New York stage includes A FEW GOOD MEN, THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, DEFIANCE, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, THE GUYS, HAMLET, and 101 performances at The Roundabout Theater of his solo play, BEYOND GLORY, which he has also toured and continues to tour around the country. Theatre awards and nominations include The Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes, and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Lang is the author of The Wheatfield, an illustrated telling of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of Union officer and Medal of Honor awardee James Jackson Purman. Published in November of 2020 by Applewood Books, exclusively through the Gettysburg Foundation, with powerful illustrations by the Brothers Smith, it is a story of courage and sacrifice, and of an unusual friendship formed in the Wheatfield between a Union and Confederate soldier under fire. Mr. Lang is a longtime friend of all things Gettysburg; the Gettysburg Foundation, the National Military Park, and the town of Gettysburg itself. His kinship with Gettysburg dates from his portrayal of General George Pickett in Ron Maxwell’s film, GETTYSBURG. In 2019 Lang was honored to receive the inaugural Kinsley Award presented by the Gettysburg Foundation to an individual or organization exemplifying Abraham Lincoln’s vision of a humble, civil, and inclusive society.
Stephen Lang is also actively involved in the organization originally founded by his father in 1963, the EUGENE M. LANG FOUNDATION. Major giving by the Foundation is directed to programs, projects and organizations that honor the Founder’s values. Accordingly, the Foundation prioritizes giving to programs and organizations that are demonstrably creative in concept and excellent in substance; that elevate people’s spirits, goals and capacities above the level of basic needs, primarily through opportunities for meaningful education, participation in the arts and civic activity, and enhanced health education and social services; and that promote inventiveness and entrepreneurship. Foundation grant-making is also informed by the needs and conditions of local and global communities and the effectiveness of the organizations and programs chosen for support. Their support currently includes funding to a number of community colleges for their DACA students to access legal representation, and a partnership with Immigrant Justice Corps. ICJ has developed an amazing model that is ripe for replication nationwide as a way to provide immigrants with top-notch representation, in which the organization trains new lawyers to provide specialized and high quality legal assistance, and pairs the lawyers with community based organizations in (to date) New York City, Long Island, the Lower Hudson Valley, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Texas. Since 2015 ICJ has been sending lawyers to the Texas border to provide assistance to detained Central American mothers and children, and has lawyers on the ground there now trying to keep families together.
Lang holds Honorary Doctorates from Swarthmore College and Jacksonville University. A longtime member of The Actors Studio, he sits on its Board of Directors as well as serving as the Studio’s Vice-President. 8/2022
Run time: 90 minutes
