Alfred Molina is an English-American actor and voice actor. He has appeared in over 200 film, television, and stage productions. His best known roles include Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears, Mellersh Wilkins in Enchanted April, Rahad Jackson in Boogie Nights, Comte de Reynaud in Chocolat, Diego Rivera in Frida, and Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2.
About Alfred Molina in brief
Alfred Molina is an English-American actor and voice actor. He has appeared in over 200 film, television, and stage productions. His best known roles include Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears, Mellersh Wilkins in Enchanted April, Rahad Jackson in Boogie Nights, Comte de Reynaud in Chocolat, Diego Rivera in Frida, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, Bishop Aringarosa in The Da Vinci Code, Jack Mellor in An Education, and George in Love Is Strange. Molina has voiced characters in Rango, Monsters University, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Frozen II. He is currently set to reprise his role as DoctorOctopus in the upcoming Spider- man film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was born Alfredo Molina in Paddington, London. His father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish immigrant from Madrid, who came to England in 1939, and worked as a waiter and chauffeur.
His mother, Giovanna, was an Italian immigrant who was a housekeeper who emigrated to Britain after WWII, and who cleaned rooms in a hotel. He decided to become an actor after seeing Spartacus at the age of nine, and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He gained wide recognition for his portrayal of Diego Rivera alongside Salma Hayek in the biopic Frida, a role for which he gained BAFTA and SAG award nominations. He played himself alongside Steve Coogan in Coffee and Cigarettes and gained further commercial recognition when he portrayed the villain in Doctor Octoberopus in DoctorSpiderMan 2, which became one of the highest-grossing films of that year. In 2006, Molina portrayed Touchstone in Kenneth Branagh’s version of As You Like It. In his Broadway debut, he performed in Yasmina Reza’s play ‘Art’, which won him a Tony Award.
You want to know more about Alfred Molina?
This page is based on the article Alfred Molina published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 09, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
