9/3/2023 0 Comments Alfred molina oscarsThe novel won the 2008 Audiobook Of The Year Award form Audio Publishers Association. This serialized novel was written by a team of 15 best-selling thriller writers, including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Joseph Finder and Lisa Scottoline. In 2007, Molina narrated a 17-part original audiobook for called The Chopin Manuscript. Molina received his third Tony Award nomination for Red in 2010, for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. For his performance he once again received a Tony Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Musical. In 2004, Molina returned to the stage, starring as Tevye in the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof. In his Broadway debut, Molina performed in Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play 'Art', for which he received a Tony nomination in 1998. Molina's stage work has included two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (as Shannon) and David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (as Fox). Molina provided the voice of the villain Ares in the 2009 animated film Wonder Woman. In 2006, Molina portrayed Touchstone in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's As You Like It and appeared in Ron Howard's adaptation of The Da Vinci Code. He reprised his role in the video game adaption. For the latter, Molina was nominated for a Satellite award as Best Supporting Actor. He played himself alongside Steve Coogan in Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) and gained further commercial recognition when he portrayed the villain Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004), which became one of the highest-grossing films of that year. Molina gained wide recognition for his portrayal of Diego Rivera alongside Salma Hayek in the biopic Frida (2002), a role for which he gained BAFTA and SAG award nominations. He has worked twice with Paul Thomas Anderson, first in Boogie Nights(1997) and then Magnolia (1999). With a mid-western American accent, Molina starred alongside Betty White in the US television series Ladies' Man, which ran from 1999–2001. Subsequent film roles included Species, Dudley Do-Right, Chocolat, Not Without My Daughter and Enchanted April. In the early 1990s, Molina was a ubiquitous presence on British television, with his highest profile role being the lead in the first two series of El C.I.D. He was originally cast as Arnold Rimmer in the TV sitcom Red Dwarf, but was replaced by Chris Barrie. However, his big break came with Letter to Brezhnev (1985), which he followed with a starring role in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), playing Joe Orton's lover (and eventual murderer) Kenneth Halliwell. Molina made his film debut with a minor role in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) as Indiana Jones' ill-fated guide, Satipo, during its iconic opening sequence. Molina appeared with Leonard Rossiter in the sitcom The Losers (1978). He also auditioned and was accepted as a member of National Youth Theatre. Molina decided to become an actor after seeing Spartacus at the age of nine, and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Molina grew up in a working class district in Notting Hill that was inhabited by many other immigrant families. His mother, Giovanna (née Bonelli), was an Italian house-keeper who cleaned rooms in a hotel and worked as a cook. His father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish immigrant from Madrid who worked as a waiter and chauffeur.
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