There are artists who do not differ in beautiful appearance, but have simply amazing charisma. They have some inexplicable power: you want to watch movies with their participation indefinitely, and the actors themselves become idols and role models. One of these masters of cinema is Lance Henriksen. One of the most successful films with his participation is the Millennium. During his career, Lance has starred in a huge number of projects. James Cameron himself was able to appreciate his talent. And the audience fell in love with the actor so much that they want to know all the secrets of his biography and filmography.
Brief Biographical Facts
Lance Henriksen, whose biography originates in New York, was born on May 5, 1940. His father was a Norwegian sailor and boxer, who possessed the nickname Ice Water. Despite the fact that the boy had both parents, his grandmother raised him. Lance dreamed of acting from an early age, but his path to fame was not easy. Henriksen in childhood was a notorious bully. He was engaged in vagrancy, and at the age of twelve he left school altogether. By this time, he still could not read, but mastered this science only a year later. The youth of the future meter was held on New York streets. Several times he found himself behind bars for committing minor offenses.
Lance Henriksen, while still completely unknown, met with Bruce Kenselor and James Cameron, whom he is friends with today. While in County Prison, Henriksen got an occasional job in the low-budget film Outsider. This event occurred in 1961 and became a “baptism of fire” for the artist. This was the starting role of a modern star.
After some time after this event, Lance first met with stuntman from Hollywood Rex Rossi. It was he who advised the guy to become a highly professional artist. In 1969, Henriksen was enrolled in the New York Acting School, which he successfully graduated from.
The origins of film career
Lance Henriksen took the first step in a big movie in 1972. “This is not easy” is a story in which the artist embodied his first full-fledged role. Two years later, in the film "Kill the King," he played a cameo role. These works were low-budget, and therefore the modern viewer can not find them in the movie archives. Lance has long served at the Broadway Theater. It was during this period that he met with Al Pacino's nominee for an Oscar. The men became very friends. Their friendship was so strong that Al Pacino, having received an invitation to star in Sydney Lumet’s Dog Midday, urged the director to find a role for his friend Henriksen. Thus, Lance earned his first role in big cinema. Dog Midday has been nominated for several Academy Award nominations.
In 1976, Lance was again invited by Lumet to his next job. It was a tape "Network", which was successfully held at the box office. In 1977, Henriksen himself was shot by Stephen Spielberg himself in the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Degree. For the actor, all these were secondary roles. And he played his first big role in Omen 2 in 1978.
Career in 1980
Lance Henriksen in 1980 again removed from Sydney Lumet. This time the picture was called "The owner of the city" and it was also nominated for an Oscar in several categories. A year later, Lance was a member of the acting team of such masterpieces as The Prince of the City and The Dark End of the Street. Acquaintance with James Cameron had a fateful character in the career of an actor. Novice director Cameron then invited Lance to play a major role in the movie Piranha 2: Spawning.
During the 80s of the last century, Henriksen worked on television and played cameo roles in soap operas. He has been seen on TV shows such as Beauty and the Beast, Team A, and Tales from the Crypt.
The film "Handsome Johnny"
In 1989, in the movie "Johnny Handsome," Lance Henriksen played the brutal and vicious bandit Rafe. The director of the tape was Walter Hill, and this was one of the main roles of the artist. This story tells of a man named John Sedley, who was born with a disfigured face. Society did not accept the guy, and he was forced to take the path of crime. Henriksen-Reif was one of Sedley's accomplice who framed him during a robbery of a jewelry store. John goes to prison where he undergoes plastic surgery. Once free, the protagonist sets out to take revenge on Rafe and his partner.
Creativity in the 90s
In the 1990s, Lance Henriksen continued his active career. Films with his participation appear as follows: "The Last Samurai" - a tape in which the artist appeared in 1990. In 1991, he starred in The Story of Strong People, where he performed as Riper. Stuart Gordon later invited Lance into his Well and the Pendulum ribbon. Then he was entrusted with the main role (Torquemad).
In 1992, Henriksen was spotted in the third part of the Aliens epic. And in 1993 he was involved in four projects simultaneously, among which there were “Excessive violence” and “Knights”. The following year, with the participation of the star, the film “Color of the Night” was filmed, where he performed in tandem with Bruce Willis. Henriksen was also involved in the critically unnoticed film "Escape Is Impossible." In the same 1990s, Lance starred in Jim Jaramush, Sam Raimi and Victor Salva.
Nowadays
Lance Henriksen, whose films the audience enjoys watching, continues to act actively in our millennium. In 2000, he mainly works in paintings of category "B" and low-budget films. Here he gets the leading roles. “Scream 2” is a work that stands out against this background. Lance worked in the film "Silent Scream" and "The Last Cowboy."
Many tapes featuring the star went exclusively to video, bypassing television and movie theaters. One of these works was the horror film “Seamstress”.