Frank Langella (1979), Skeletor in "Masters of the Universe" (1987), Bob Alexander in "Dave" (1993), William S. Paley in "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005) and Richard Nixon in the film production of "Frost/Nixon" (2008), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He had a recurring role as Gabriel, the KGB handler for the lead characters, in the FX series "The Americans" between 2013 and 2017. Langella, an Italian American, was born January 1, 1938, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel
Michael Sheen nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. At this point in his career, Sheen began to devote more time to film work. "Heartlands", a little-seen 2002 film about a naive man's road trip in the Midlands, was his first leading film role. While "The Guardian" dismissed the "cloying bittersweet-regional-lottery-Britfilm", it noted that "Sheen himself has a childlike, Frank Spencer-ish charm". "It was great to do something that was so different", Sheen has said of the role. "I usually play very extreme characters." Also in 2002, he had a minor role