| 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
Abominable (10-Apr-2006)
When a Stranger Calls (3-Feb-2006) [VOICE]
Hellraiser: Hellworld (6-Sep-2005)
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)
Out for Blood (16-Mar-2004)
One Point O (2004)
Rapid Exchange (13-May-2003)
Mimic 3: Sentinel (14-Apr-2003)
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)
Tarzan (17-Jun-1999) [VOICE]
Face the Evil (1997)
Profile for Murder (29-Nov-1996)
Felony (3-Jan-1996)
Last Assassins (1996)
Powder (27-Oct-1995)
Dead Man (26-May-1995)
The Quick and the Dead (10-Feb-1995)
Nature of the Beast (1995)
The Outpost (1995)
Baja (1995)
Gunfighter's Moon (1995)
Color of Night (19-Aug-1994)
No Escape (29-Apr-1994)
Spitfire (1994)
Boulevard (1994)
Man's Best Friend (19-Nov-1993)
Knights (Nov-1993)
Hard Target (20-Aug-1993)
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)
Johnny Handsome (12-Sep-1989)
The Horror Show (28-Apr-1989)
Hit List (3-Mar-1989)
Pumpkinhead (13-Jan-1989)
Near Dark (02-Oct-1987)
Aliens (18-Jul-1986)
Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985)
Savage Dawn (1985)
The Terminator (26-Oct-1984)
Nightmares (09-Sep-1983)
The Right Stuff (9-Sep-1983)
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
Prince of the City (1981)
The Visitor (22-Mar-1979)
Damien: Omen II (9-Jun-1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (16-Nov-1977)
The Next Man (10-Nov-1976)
Dog Day Afternoon (21-Sep-1975)
It Ain't Easy (14-Dec-1972)
Official Website:
http://www.bylancehenriksen.com/
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