Lance Henriksen scheduled to be at DragonCon, Atlanta, 2008!

[Raven Wolf]

Some of you may remember last year, when I posted that Lance was scheduled to be at Dragoncon, in Atlanta GA, summer of 2007. Well, then, it turned out that he was unable to be there, due to prior engagements. (and I couldn't have gone anyway, since that was at the beginning of my year-long ordeal with my dog Spencer and the leg that wouldn't heal)

Now, it seems he's trying again!!!! Check it out!

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Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen's first job was designing theater sets. He first chose to act in a play for which he'd built the set. In his early 30s, Henriksen graduated from the prestigious Actors Studio and began acting in New York City's Off-Broadway theater circuit. In film, he first appeared in It Ain't Easy in 1972. He went on to play a variety of supporting roles in noteworthy genre films such as Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Damien: Omen II (1978). He also portrayed actor Charles Bronson in the 1991 TV-movie Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story and astronaut Walter Schirra in The Right Stuff (1983).

Henriksen is perhaps best known for portraying the android Bishop, an artificial life-form, in Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992). He would go on to play Charles Bishop Weyland, the man Bishop's appearance was based on, in Alien vs. Predator (2004).

In 1996, Henriksen starred in the TV series Millennium, created and produced by Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files. Henriksen played Frank Black, a former FBI agent who possessed an ability to see into the minds of killers. Carter created the role specifically for Lance. Henriksen's 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 most recently appeared in the ensemble of Into the West (2005), a miniseries executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.

In recent years Henriksen has also been active as a 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 prequel, Henriksen 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). Henriksen is the voice of the character Molov in the video game Red Faction II (2002), which was developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ, and has also contributed to GUN (2005), Run Like Hell (2002), and the canceled title Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004).