Peter Morgan 2007 they jointly won a BAFTA Film Award for their work on the film. Also in 2006, Morgan's first play, "Frost/Nixon", was staged at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London. Starring Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon, the play concerns the series of televised interviews that the disgraced former president granted Frost in 1977. These ended with his tacit admission of guilt regarding his role in the Watergate scandal. The play was directed by Michael Grandage and opened to enthusiastic reviews. In May 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honoured Morgan with the
Frank Langella Returns" co-star James Marsden in the Richard Kelly film "The Box". Langella starred in the drama thriller "Unknown", which was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, and was released in 2011. In October and November 2013, Langella played King Lear at the Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre in Chichester, UK. It travelled to the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 2014. In 2016, he played the title role in Doug Hughes' production of the US premiere of Florian Zeller's play "The Father" at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Langella was married to Ruth Weil from