Lance Henriksen: biography and the most outstanding paintings of the artist

There are artists who do not have a beautiful appearance, but they have simply amazing charisma. They have some inexplicable power: films with their participation want to look endlessly, and the actors themselves become idols and role models. One of such masters of cinema is Lance Henriksen. One of the most successful films with his participation is the "Millennium". During his career, Lance starred in a huge number of projects. His talent was appreciated by James Cameron himself. And the audience fell in love with the actor so much that they want to know all the secrets of his biography and filmography.

Brief biographical facts

Lance Henriksen, whose biography originates in New York, was born on May 5, 1940. His father was a Norwegian sailor and a boxer who had the nickname Ice Water. Despite the fact that the boy had both parents, he was brought up by his grandmother. Actor Lance dreamed of even from an early age, but his way to fame was not easy. Henriksen in his childhood was a notorious hooligan. He was engaged in vagrancy, and at the age of twelve, he left school altogether. By this time, he could not read yet, but mastered this science only a year later. The youth of the future meter passed in the New York streets. Several times he was behind bars for committing minor offenses.

Lance Henriksen, being still completely unknown, met with Bruce Kenselor and James Cameron, whom he is friends with today. While in the County prison, Henriksen received an episodic work in the low-budget picture "Outsider." This event occurred in 1961 and became a "baptism of fire" for the artist. This was the starting role of the modern star.

After some time after this event, Lance first met with a Hollywood stuntman by Rax Rossi. It was he who advised the guy to become a highly professional artist. In 1969, Henriksen enlisted in the New York School of Actors, which he successfully graduated.

Sources of film career

Lance Henriksen took the first step in the big movie in 1972. "It's not easy" - a story in which the artist embodied his first full-fledged role. Two years later, in the film "Kill the King," he performed an episodic role. These works were low-budget, and therefore the modern viewer can not be found in film archives. Lance has long served in the theater on Broadway. It was during this period that he became acquainted with the nominee for the Oscar award Al Pacino. The men became very friendly. Their friendship was so strong that Al Pacino, having received an invitation to appear in the film "Dog Noon" by Sidney Lumet, asked the director to find a role for his friend Henriksen. Thus, Lance earned his first role in a large cinematograph. "Dog Noon" was nominated in several nominations for the "Oscar" award.

In 1976, Lance was again invited by Lumet to his next job. It was a tape "Teleset", which was a success at the box office. In 1977 Henriksen was shot by Steven Spielberg himself in the fantastic film "Close Encounters of the Third Degree". For the actor, all these were secondary roles. And his first major role he played in "Omen 2" in 1978.

Career in the 1980s

Lance Henriksen in 1980 again removed from Sydney Lumet. This time the picture was called "The Master of the City" and she was also nominated for an Oscar in several categories. A year later, Lance was a member of the cast of such masterpieces as "The Prince of the City" and "The Dark End of the Street". Acquaintance with James Cameron had a fateful character in the career of the actor. Beginning then director Cameron invited Lance to play a major role in the film "Piranhas 2: Spawning."

Throughout the 80s of the last century, Henriksen worked on television and played episodic roles in soap operas. He was seen in such TV series as "Beauty and the Beast", "Team A" and "Tales from the Crypt."

The film "Handsome Johnny"

In 1989, in the film "Handsome Johnny" Lance Henriksen played the brutal and vicious bandit Rafe. The director of the tape was Walter Hill, and it was one of the main roles of the artist. This story tells of a man named John Sedley, who was born with a disfigured face. The society did not accept the guy, and he had to take the path of crime. Henriksen-Rafe was one of the accomplices of Sedley, who framed him during the robbery of a jewelry store. John ends up in prison, where he is undergoing plastic surgery. Once free, the main character sets out to take revenge on Rafe and his partner.

Creativity in the 90s

In 1990, continues his active career, Lance Henriksen. Films with his participation appear the following: "The Last Samurai" - a tape in which the artist was lighted in 1990. In 1991, he starred in the work "The Story of Strong People," where he appeared in the image of Reaper. Later, Stuart Gordon invited Lance to his tape "The Well and the Pendulum". Here he was entrusted with the main role (Torquemada).

In 1992, Henriksen was seen in the third part of the epic "Strangers". And in 1993 he was involved simultaneously in four projects, among which you can mention "Excessive Violence" and "Knights". The following year, with the participation of the stars, the shooting of the painting "The Color of the Night" took place, where he made a paired with Bruce Willis. Also Henriksen was involved in the film "Escape is impossible", unnoticed by critics. In the same 1990, Lance filmed with Jim Jaramush, Sam Raimi and Victor Salva.

Nowadays

Lance Henriksen, whose films with pleasure watching the audience, continues to actively withdraw in our millennium. In 2000, he mainly works in pictures of the category "B" and low-budget tapes. Here he gets leading roles. "Scream 2" is a work that stands out especially against this background. Lance worked in the tape "Silent Scream" and "The Last Cowboy".

Many of the tapes with the participation of the stars went exclusively on video, bypassing television and cinemas. One of such works was the horror film "Seamstress".