Alfred Molina's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Company Harvey Torr… Bram & Alice Bram Shepherd El C.I.D. (UK) Bernard Blake The Losers (UK) Nigel

Main Movie Roles 2011 - Rango 2010 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2009 - An Education 2009 - The Pink Panther 2 2008 - Nothing Like the Holidays 2007 - The Ten Commandments 2007 - The Moon and the Stars 2006 - The Da Vinci Code 2006 - As You Like It 2004 - Crónicas 2004 - Coffee and Cigarettes 2004 - Spider-Man 2 2003 - My Life Without Me 2003 - Luther 2003 - Identity 2002 - Frida 2001 - Texas Rangers 2000 - Chocolat 1999 - Magnolia 1999 - Dudley Do-Right 1998 - The Impostors 1997 - Boogie Nights 1997 - A Further Gesture 1997 - The Man Who Knew Too Little 1996 - Mojave Moon 1996 - Before and After 1995 - Species 1995 - Dead Man 1995 - Hideaway 1994 - Maverick 1994 - Cabin Boy 1994 - White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf 1992 - Enchanted April 1991 - Not Without My Daughter 1987 - Prick Up Your Ears 1985 - Ladyhawke 1985 - Eleni 1981 - Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

BIOGRAPHY:

Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England, of a Spanish father and an Italian mother. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" (as Shannon) and David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" (as Fox), plus a splendid performance in Yasmina Reza's "Art" (his Broadway debut), for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1998. He made his film debut in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and got a good part in Letter to Brezhnev (1985) (as a Soviet sailor who spends a night in Liverpool), but his movie breakthrough came two years later when he played--superbly--Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of playwright Joe Orton (I), in Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987). He was also outstanding in Enchanted April (1992), The Perez Family (1995) (as a Cuban immigrant), Anna Karenina (1997) (as Levin) and Chocolat (2000) (as the narrow-minded mayor of a small French town circa 1950s, who tries to shut down a chocolate shop).


TRIVIA:

• Educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he started out as a busker specializing in stand-up comedy and doing odd jobs to supplement his welfare cheque, before being accepted by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977.
• He has one daughter, Rachel (b. 1980) from a previous relationship. He also has 2 stepsons, from his wife Jill's first marriage.
• Is a huge fan of jazz.
• Although he himself is fully an Englishman, Alfred's father was a Spanish waiter and his mother was an Italian housekeeper. His mixed background has allowed him to play characters of almost any heritage.
• Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1998 as Best Actor (Play) for "Art," and in 2004 as Best Actor (Musical) for portraying Tevye in a revival of "Fiddler on the Roof."
• Auditioned for the part of Rimmer in _"Red Dwarf" (1988)_ (qv).
• He gained a good amount of weight to play the huge 'Diego Rivera (I)' (qv) in _Frida (2002)_ (qv) and then slimmed down to play Dr. Octopus in _Spider-Man 2 (2004)_ (qv). Alfred regretted that due to his part as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof", he again was forced to regain his bulk.
• Speaks Spanish and Italian fluently.