There are artists who are not beautifulappearance, but have simply amazing charisma. They have some kind of inexplicable power: they want to watch films with their participation to infinity, and the actors themselves become idols and role models. One of these masters of cinema seems Lance Henriksen. One of the most successful tapes with his participation is the "Millennium". During his career, Lance has appeared in a huge number of projects. His talent was able to appreciate himself James Cameron. And the audience loves the actor so much that they want to know all the secrets of his biography and filmography.
Lance Henriksen, whose biography takes its tollbeginning in New York, was born on the fifth of May 1940. His father was a Norwegian sailor and a boxer who had the nickname Ice Water. Despite the fact that the boy had both parents, his grandmother raised him. Engage in acting Lance dreamed 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 at all. By this time he could not yet read, and mastered this science only a year later. The youth of the future meter passed on the streets of New York. Several times he was imprisoned for committing minor offenses.
Lance Henriksen, while still completely unknown,He met with Bruce Kenselor and James Cameron, with whom he is friends today. While in the county jail, Henriksen received an episodic work in the low-budget picture "Outsider." This event occurred in 1961 and became a “baptism of fire” for the artist. It was the starting role of the modern star.
After some time after thisevents Lance first met with a Hollywood stuntman Rex Rossi. It was he who advised the guy to become a highly professional artist. In 1969, Henriksen enrolled in the New York Actor School, which he successfully graduated from.
Lance Henriksen took the first step in a big movie in1972 "It is not easy" - a story in which the artist embodied his first full-fledged role. Two years later, in the film "To Kill the King", he played a cameo role. These works were low-budget, and therefore the modern viewer did not find them in the film archives. Lance has served in the Broadway theater for a long time. It was during this period that he met Oscar nominee Al Pacino. The men became good friends. Their friendship was so strong that Al Pacino, having received an invitation to star in the film “Dog's Midday” by Sydney Lumet, asked the director to find the role for his friend Henriksen. Thus, Lance earned his first role in big cinema. “Dog Midday” was nominated in several Oscar nominations.
In 1976, Lance was again invited by Lumet tohis next job. It was the tape "Teleset", which successfully passed at the box office. In 1977, Henriksen was shot by Steven Spielberg himself in the science fiction film “Close Relations of the Third Degree”. For the actor, these were all minor roles. And he played his first major role in "Omen 2" in 1978.
Lance Henriksen in 1980, again removed fromSydney Lumet. This time the picture had the name “Master 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. Familiarity with James Cameron was a fateful character in the career of an actor. Beginner then director Cameron invited Lance to play a major role in the film Piranhas 2: Spawning.
На протяжении 80-х годов прошлого столетия Henriksen worked in television and played cameo roles in soap operas. He was seen on TV shows such as Beauty and the Beast, Team A and Tales from the Crypt.
In 1989 in the movie "Handsome Johnny" LanceHenriksen played the cruel and wicked gangster Rafe. The director of the tape was Walter Hill, and it was one of the main roles of the artist. This story tells about 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-Rafe was one of Sedley's accomplices who framed him during a robbery at a jewelry store. John goes to jail, where he undergoes plastic surgery. Once free, the main character sets out to take revenge on Rafe and his partner.
В 1990 годах продолжает свою активную карьеру Lance Henriksen. Films with his participation appear as follows: "The Last Samurai" - the tape in which the artist appeared in 1990. In 1991, he starred in The Story of Strong Men, where he appeared as Ryper. Later, Stuart Gordon invited Lance to his Well and Pendulum ribbon. Here he was entrusted with the main role (Torquemad).
In 1992, Henriksen was spotted in part three.epic "Aliens". And in 1993, he was involved in four projects simultaneously, among which are “Excessive Violence” and “Knights”. The following year, the stars took part in the shooting of the picture “The Color of the Night”, where he performed together with Bruce Willis. Also Henriksen was involved in the critically unnoticed film "Escape is impossible." In the same 1990s, Lance was filmed by Jim Jaramush, Sam Raimi and Victor Salva.
Lance henriksen whose films with pleasurewatching the audience, continues to actively starred in our millennium. In 2000, he mainly works in paintings of category “B” and low-budget tapes. Here he gets the leading role. Scream 2 is a job that stands out in particular against this background. Lance worked in the Silent Shout and The Last Cowboy tape.
Many tapes with the participation of the stars were exclusively on video, bypassing television and movie theaters. One of these works was the horror film "The Seamstress".
