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Lance Henriksen (born May 5, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for his works in various science fiction, action and horror films, such as that of Bishop in the Alien film franchise, and Frank Black in Fox television series Millennium (1996–1999) and The X-Files (1999). He has also done extensive voice work, as Kerchak the gorilla in the 1999 Disney film Tarzan (1999), General Shepherd in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Fleet Admiral Steven Hackett (as well as Narl) in BioWare's Mass Effect video game trilogy (2007–2012). He also appeared as Hal Vukovich in The Terminator (1984), Ed Harley in the cult horror film Pumpkinhead (1988), Chains Cooper in Stone Cold (1991), and Emil Fouchon in Hard Target (1993).
Early life
Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940, in Manhattan, New York. His father, James Henriksen, was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed "Icewater" who spent most of his life at sea, while his mother, Margueritte Werner, struggled to find work as a dance instructor, waitress and model. His parents divorced when he was two years old, and his mother struggled to raise him and his brother, leading to his spending part of his childhood in foster care. During an interview, Henriksen recounted how, at the age of seven, his mother handed him his birth certificate and said, "You'll always know who you are", then pushed him out of his home. Henriksen did not actually leave home until he was 12, saying he'd "had enough" of his home life, and that he had been physically assaulted by multiple family members: "I got bludgeoned a lot. Different people, relatives. I remember every single face from my childhood. My alcoholic uncles, whoever. I'm not having a pity party here; I'm not Quasimodo. That's just how it was". On another occasion, two of his uncles tried to persuade him to take Methadrine and then take part in a staged car accident for the insurance money. Growing up, Henriksen had a reputation for getting into trouble in the various schools he attended, and even spent time in a children's home. He left school after completing first grade, and was illiterate until the age of 30.
Career
Henriksen found work as a muralist[clarification needed] and as a laborer on ships. For a time, he worked in Europe[vague]. His first theater work, around age 30, was as set designer, and he received his first acting role because he built the set for a production. Illiterate until then, it was around this time that he taught himself to read. For his first role, he put the entire script to tape with the help of a friend, learning everyone's part in addition to his own. Soon afterward, he graduated from the Actors Studio and began acting in New York City. Henriksen's first film appearance was in It Ain't Easy in 1972. It was followed by supporting roles in a variety of films, including Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Damien - Omen II (1978). He played Police Chief Steve Kimbrough in Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982), the astronaut Walter Schirra in The Right Stuff (1983), and actor Charles Bronson in the television film Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story (1991). When James Cameron was writing The Terminator (1984), he originally envisioned Henriksen, with whom he had worked on Piranha II: The Spawning, playing the title role, a cyborg. The role ultimately went to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Henriksen does appear in the film as Hal Vukovich, a Detective in the Los Angeles Police Department.
Henriksen in 2010 Henriksen played the android Bishop in Cameron's film Aliens (1986), and as Bishop's designer Michael Weyland in Alien 3 (1992). He also played Charles Bishop Weyland, the man upon whom Bishop was based, in Alien vs. Predator (2004). He played the vampire leader Jesse Hooker in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Near Dark
He portrayed gunfighters in the Westerns Dead Man and The Quick and the Dead, and appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Aurora: Operation Intercept in 1995. That year, he also played Sheriff Doug Barnum in the film Powder. He appeared with Payne again in Face the Evil (1997), and the dystopian classic Paranoia 1.0 (2004).
In 1996, Henriksen starred in the television series Millennium, created and produced by Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files. Henriksen played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who possessed a unique ability to see into the minds of killers. Carter created the role specifically for the actor. His performances on Millennium earned him critical acclaim, a People's Choice Award nomination for Favorite New Male TV Star, and three consecutive Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series (1997–1999). The series was cancelled in 1999. On television, Henriksen appeared in the ensemble of Into the West (2005), a miniseries executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. He appeared in a Brazilian soap opera, Caminhos do Coração (Ways of the Heart) from Rede Record, aired in 2007–2008. Henriksen guest-starred on a Season 6 episode of NCIS (2009) playing an Arizona sheriff, and appeared in a recurring role as The Major on NBC's The Blacklist.
In the years after Millennium, Henriksen has become an active voice actor, lending his distinctive voice to a number of animated features and video game titles. In Disney's Tarzan (1999) and its direct-to-video followup, he is Kerchak, the ape who serves as Tarzan's surrogate father. He provided the voice for the alien supervillain Brainiac in Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006) and for the character Mulciber in Godkiller (2009). Henriksen is the voice of the character Molov in the video game Red Faction II (2002) and has also contributed to GUN (2005), Run Like Hell (2002), the canceled title Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004), and the role-playing game Mass Effect (2007) as Admiral Hackett of the Human Systems Alliance. Henriksen was also the voice behind PlayStation 3's internet promotional videos. In 2005, Henriksen was the voice of Andrei Rublev in Cartoon Network's IGPX. The actor lent his voice to the animated television series Transformers: Animated as the character Lockdown. In 2009, Henriksen voiced Lieutenant General Shepherd in the award-winning game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He would later voice Karl Bishop Weyland in Aliens vs. Predator; also, this character's appearance resembles Henriksen's. Henriksen voiced Master Gnost-Dural in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and he also reprised his role as Admiral Hackett in Mass Effect 3. Henriksen reprised his role as Bishop in Aliens: Colonial Marines.
He starred in a 2003 series of Australian television commercials for Visa, titled Unexplained (about the raining of fish from the sky over Norfolk) and Big Cats (about the Beast of Bodmin Moor). In these commercials, Henriksen speaks as a Frank Black-type character about these phenomena as Mark Snow-inspired mysterious music plays in the background, as a link to Henriksen's TV series Millennium. Unexplained went on to a gold world medal at the 2004 New York Festivals. He made a cameo appearance in the 2009 horror comedy Jennifer's Body, and starred in the After Dark Horrorfest film, Scream of the Banshee, released in 2011. He played Henry Gale in Leigh Scott's The Witches of Oz. In January 2015, he was signed for the lead in the indie thriller Monday at 11:01 A.M. In 2016, he starred in the feature film Deserted, a psychological thriller. Henriksen played the role of Hopper. In 2018, Henriksen performed motion capture and vocal performance for the character of Carl Manfred in the video game Detroit: Become Human. The game's plot involves androids gaining sentience and free will, topics explored briefly with Henriksen's Bishop character in Aliens. In October 2018, Henriksen was signed for one of the two leads in Falling, the directorial debut of actor Viggo Mortensen, who also wrote, produced and co-starred. Reviewing the film's 2020 premiere, The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore noted not only the quality of Henriksen's performance, but the opportunity Mortensen's script presented: "[F]ew moviegoers who've enjoyed him over the years will be surprised, but many will resent that we, and he, have waited so long for a role like this." He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for his performance in Falling. In 2022, Henriksen was cast in the upcoming American horror film, Awaken the Reaper. The film is currently shooting in New York and slated for a 2023 release date. It is directed by Justin Paul and Dave Campfield and produced by Fourth Horizon Cinema, Impact Media Studios and Design Weapons.
Personal life
Henriksen has been married three times. He was married to Mary Jane Evans from 1985 to 1989 and to Jane Pollack from 1995 to 2006. Henriksen has four children; three with Pollack and one with Lunde. Henriksen currently resides in Santa Clarita, California.
Art
Henriksen continues to produce art. He worked as a muralist before he became an actor, and he has worked with clay since 1960. In September 2017, Henriksen set up a website to showcase and find homes for some of his most recent clay works. He "still believes that there is nothing as simple and beautiful as raw clay... And that Potters have the remaining soul of the nomads... always searching..."
Books
Autobiography Not Bad for a Human – The Life and Films of Lance Henriksen – Lance Henriksen with co-author Joseph Maddrey, published in 2011 by Bloody Pulp Books, featuring art by Bill Sienkiewicz, Mike Mignola, Tom Mandrake, Tim Bradstreet, Eric Powell and Ashley Wood.
Comic books To Hell You Ride (five-issue comic book from Dark Horse Comics) (2012) – Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey (co-authors) with Tom Mandrake (artist); a motion-comic video was also made by Dark Horse Comics) (2012) – Lance Henriksen and Joseph Maddrey (co-authors), Tom Mandrake (artist), Lance Henriksen (narrator), TKU: Tecamachalco Underground (Cesar Gallegos/Mateo Latosa) (musical score)
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My agent sent me a script. And he said, "Read it. But I'm not going to tell you anything about it. About how it's being done or what it is." So I read it and it was powerful - this is the pilot for Millennium. A very powerful piece and the character was, I thought, really exciting, cos it's a new idea, a new kind of person. And then after I read it, I got excited as hell, cos I thought it was a movie. And they said, "No, it's a television series." I said, "No, that's not possible. Nobody can make a series on that script." It was a very vivid and edgy script. And he says, "No, it's definitely the pilot." And it was the pilot that we shot. But the thing is, then I said, "You know, I got some questions about this."
Source: Lance Henriksen Order In Chaos: The Making Of Millennium Season One
I think, you know, like a good - like Shane, like any cowboy, any good movie, Western movie, the hero is always very self-reliant. Quiet, capable, dangerous. That's what I saw Frank Black as. There was a moment when Bill Hurt's (William Hurt) name was mentioned, and I think it was one of those ideas that everyone gets excited about without thinking about the reality of it. So, while his name may have been mentioned, I doubt Bill Hurt ever knew that he was even up for this role. So Lance Henriksen really was the first and last choice.
Source: Chris Carter Order In Chaos: The Making Of Millennium Season One
Lance Henriksen appeared in the following 67 episode/s of Millennium:
MLM#-101 Gehenna as Frank Black
MLM#-102 Dead Letters as Frank Black
MLM#-103 Kingdom Come as Frank Black
MLM#-104 The Judge as Frank Black
MLM#-105 522666 as Frank Black
MLM#-106 Blood Relatives as Frank Black
MLM#-107 The Well-Worn Lock as Frank Black
MLM#-108 Wide Open as Frank Black
MLM#-110 The Wild and the Innocent as Frank Black
MLM#-111 Loin Like a Hunting Flame as Frank Black
MLM#-112 Force Majeure as Frank Black
MLM#-113 The Thin White Line as Frank Black
MLM#-114 Sacrament as Frank Black
MLM#-115 Walkabout as Frank Black
MLM#-116 Covenant as Frank Black
MLM#-117 Lamentation as Frank Black
MLM#-118 Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions as Frank Black
MLM#-119 Broken World as Frank Black
MLM#-120 Maranatha as Frank Black
MLM#-121 Paper Dove as Frank Black
MLM#-201 The Beginning and the End as Frank Black
MLM#-202 Beware of the Dog as Frank Black
MLM#-203 Sense and Antisense as Frank Black
MLM#-204 Monster as Frank Black
MLM#-205 A Single Blade of Grass as Frank Black
MLM#-207 The Curse of Frank Black as Frank Black
MLM#-208 The Hand of Saint Sebastian as Frank Black
MLM#-209 Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' as Frank Black
MLM#-209 Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' as Rocket McGrain
MLM#-210 Goodbye Charlie as Frank Black
MLM#-211 Midnight of the Century as Frank Black
MLM#-212 Luminary as Frank Black
MLM#-213 The Mikado as Frank Black
MLM#-215 The Pest House as Frank Black
MLM#-216 Roosters as Frank Black
MLM#-218 In Arcadia Ego as Frank Black
MLM#-220 A Room With No View as Frank Black
MLM#-221 Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me as Frank Black
MLM#-222 The Fourth Horseman as Frank Black
MLM#-223 The Time Is Now as Frank Black
MLM#-301 The Innocents as Frank Black
MLM#-302 Exegesis as Frank Black
MLM#-303 TEOTWAWKI as Frank Black
MLM#-304 Closure as Frank Black
MLM#-305 ...Thirteen Years Later as Frank Black
MLM#-306 Skull and Bones as Frank Black
MLM#-307 Through A Glass, Darkly as Frank Black
MLM#-308 Omerta as Frank Black
MLM#-309 Human Essence as Frank Black
MLM#-310 Borrowed Time as Frank Black
MLM#-311 Collateral Damage as Frank Black
MLM#-312 The Sound of Snow as Frank Black
MLM#-313 Antipas as Frank Black
MLM#-314 Matryoshka as Frank Black
MLM#-315 Forcing the End as Frank Black
MLM#-316 Saturn Dreaming of Mercury as Frank Black
MLM#-317 Bardo Thodol as Frank Black
MLM#-318 Darwin's Eye as Frank Black
MLM#-319 Seven and One as Frank Black
MLM#-320 Nostalgia as Frank Black
MLM#-321 Via Dolorosa as Frank Black
MLM#-322 Goodbye To All That as Frank Black