| Lance Henriksen  Born: 5-May-1940
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Artist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Aliens, Dead Man Military service: US Navy (1955-58, Petty Officer Third Class) Hendriksen's mother worked as a waitress, and his father was a Norwegian sailor and boxer who rarely spoke. They divorced when Henriksen was a child, leaving the boy to be raised by his mother. He was a poor student and often in trouble, and ran away from home when he was 12. He was a street urchin in New York through adolescence. At 15, he joined the Navy by lying about his age. After his discharge he stowed away aboard freight trains. For this and other petty crimes, he served several short stints in county jails.
As a young man, Henriksen worked mostly as a painter, and eventually found a job designing and constructing sets for a theater's stage productions. His first speaking part on film was 1972's It Ain't Easy (Henriksen plays a trapper and snowmobile racer who becomes the prime suspect when his girlfriend is bludgeoned to death). He first prominent role was as an FBI agent in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and more recently starred in TV's Millennium, as an ex-FBI agent with psychic abilities.
He played a district attorney in Prince of the City (1981), astronaut Wally Schirra in The Right Stuff (1983), a cop in the original Terminator (1984). In Aliens (1986) and Alien 3 (1992) he played Bishop, a gruffly sympathetic android who did nifty tricks with a knife. Henriksen was functionally illiterate until his acting career began to take off, and he taught himself to read from scripts. In his 30s, he studied at New York's Actors Studio.
Wife: Mary Jane Henriksen (div.)
Daughter: Alcamy Henriksen (b. 1987)
Wife: Jane Pollock (m. 1995)
Daughter: Sage Ariel (b. 12-Oct-1999)
Ran Away From Home
Vagrancy
TELEVISION
Millennium
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Good Day for It (6-Apr-2011) · Lyle
Scream of the Banshee (26-Mar-2011)
The Lost Tribe (2010)
The Seamstress (6-Oct-2009)
Screamers: The Hunting (17-Feb-2009)
The Slammin' Salmon (17-Jan-2009)
Necessary Evil (31-Dec-2008)
Appaloosa (5-Sep-2008)
Alone in the Dark II (Sep-2008) · Abner Lundberg
Dark Reel (16-Aug-2008)
Deadwater (20-May-2008)
Prairie Fever (29-Mar-2008)
Pistol Whipped (4-Mar-2008)
Dying God (2008) · Chance
House (1-Nov-2007) [VOICE]
Bone Dry (17-May-2007)
Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud (10-Feb-2007)
In the Spider's Web (2007)
Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (28-Oct-2006)
The Da Vinci Treasure (23-May-2006)
Sasquatch Mountain (18-May-2006)
Abominable (10-Apr-2006)
The Garden (17-Mar-2006) · Old Man
When a Stranger Calls (3-Feb-2006) [VOICE]
Hellraiser: Hellworld (6-Sep-2005) · Host
Supernova (5-Sep-2005)
Tarzan II (14-Jun-2005) [VOICE]
Alien vs. Predator (13-Aug-2004)
Evel Knievel (30-Jul-2004)
Madhouse (30-Jul-2004)
Modigliani (18-May-2004) · Foster Kane
Out for Blood (16-Mar-2004)
One Point O (2004)
Rapid Exchange (13-May-2003)
Mimic 3: Sentinel (14-Apr-2003) · Garbageman
Expedition: Bismarck (8-Dec-2002) · Narrator [VOICE]
Antibody (4-Dec-2002)
The Untold (2002)
Unspeakable (2002)
Lost Voyage (23-Oct-2001)
The Mangler 2 (2001)
Scream 3 (4-Feb-2000) · John Milton
Tarzan (17-Jun-1999) [VOICE]
The Day Lincoln Was Shot (12-Apr-1998)
Face the Evil (1997)
Profile for Murder (29-Nov-1996)
Baja (29-Mar-1996)
Felony (3-Jan-1996)
Last Assassins (1996)
Powder (27-Oct-1995)
Dead Man (26-May-1995) · Cole Wilson
The Quick and the Dead (10-Feb-1995)
Nature of the Beast (1995)
The Outpost (1995) · Stockton
Gunfighter's Moon (1995)
Color of Night (19-Aug-1994)
Boulevard (May-1994)
No Escape (29-Apr-1994) · The Father
Spitfire (1994)
Man's Best Friend (19-Nov-1993) · Dr. Jarret
Knights (Nov-1993)
The Criminal Mind (25-Oct-1993)
Hard Target (20-Aug-1993) · Fouchon
Super Mario Bros. (28-May-1993)
Excessive Force (14-May-1993)
Jennifer Eight (6-Nov-1992)
Alien 3 (22-May-1992)
Delta Heat (1992)
Stone Cold (17-May-1991)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1990) · Torquemada
Johnny Handsome (12-Sep-1989)
The Horror Show (28-Apr-1989)
Hit List (3-Mar-1989)
Pumpkinhead (13-Jan-1989)
Survival Quest (1989)
Deadly Intent (13-May-1988)
Near Dark (2-Oct-1987)
Aliens (18-Jul-1986)
Choke Canyon (2-May-1986)
Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985)
Savage Dawn (1985)
The Terminator (26-Oct-1984) · Vukovich
Nightmares (9-Sep-1983)
The Right Stuff (9-Sep-1983) · Wally Schirra
Prince of the City (19-Aug-1981)
The Dark End of the Street (Feb-1981)
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
The Visitor (22-Mar-1979)
Damien: Omen II (9-Jun-1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (16-Nov-1977) · Robert
The Next Man (10-Nov-1976)
Mansion of the Doomed (Oct-1976)
Dog Day Afternoon (21-Sep-1975) · Murphy
It Ain't Easy (14-Dec-1972)
Official Website:
http://www.bylancehenriksen.com/
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