Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Lance Henriksen - a great actor

Just some tidbits for a question I answered via Yahoo Answers. Seems Lance Armstrong is quite popular these days.

Date of Birth
5 May 1940, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name
Lance James Henriksen

Height
5' 10¼"

Daughters: Sage Ariel (12 October 1999), Alcamy (b. 1987).

Was illiterate until the age of thirty. He taught himself to read by studying movie scripts.

His father was a Merchant Marine seaman nicknamed "Icewater".

Parents divorced when he was two years of age.

Left home at the age of twelve.

Served in the.....

Served in the US Navy.

There was talk of having him reprise his role as Detective Vukovich in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) but never happened.

Dropped out of school at 12.

In addition to playing roles in the "Alien" and "Predator" films, he has also appeared in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

As a young man, he hitchhiked across the United States.

Lived in Borneo for three years when he was a kid.

Enjoys pottery and has been doing it for over 40 years.

He has filmed over 7 movies in Romania.

Is a big fan of Eminem's music.

Loves to vacation in Hawaii.

He is the only actor besides Sigourney Weaver to appear in more than one "Alien" movie.

Irish electronica group, Machines Of Love, have a song entitled 'Lance Henriksen'. The group's frontman, P.A.L.A.S, has said that he's a huge fan of his films and says that he's "criminally underrated".

Personal Quotes

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio and they told me to get lost. I said "I'll come back when I'm a man", and I came back when I was 30. I went to sea, I traveled the world . . . I was waiting.

You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is . . . it's not that I think I'm funny . . . but I long to do a situation comedy.

The challenge for me in a part is if it's something I haven't don