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 in the fantasy children's film "Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box". R. Kurt Osenlund of "Slant Magazine" said "the ever-versatile Sheen brings an artful hamminess to his role" but Matt Pais of "RedEye" found him "insufficiently zany" in "a part that Robert Downey Jr. would nail but never accept." His second film role of 2014 was a minor role in the political thriller "Kill the Messenger". Also in 2014, he starred in IFC's six-episode "The Spoils of Babylon", a television parody of classic, sweeping miniseries, in which he played the husband of Kristen Wiig's character. In 2015, Sheen starred opposite