| Alfred Molina  Born: 24-May-1953
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 Alfred Molina is a long-time character actor, best known for playing villains in movies and TV. He played the four-armed Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, the drug-dealer in Boogie Nights, the furious gay lover in Prick Up Your Ears, and a skirt-chasing Diego Rivera in Salma Hayek's Frida. His first memorable film appearance was as the tomb raider who lied to Harrison Ford at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. "Throw me the idol", he said, "I'll throw you the whip".
Molina's father was a Spanish communist, his mother an Italian maid, a combination which has given Molina an oddly indefinable ethnicity. He has played a Mexican in Frida, a Frenchman in Chocolat, a Russian in Letter to Brezhnev, an Iranian in Not Without My Daughter, and a Cuban in The Perez Family, but Molina is utterly English.
Father: (waiter, Spanish)
Mother: (housewife, Italian)
Wife: Jill Gascoine (actress, b. 11-Apr-1937)
University: Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
Spanish Ancestry Paternal
Italian Ancestry Maternal
TELEVISION
Ladies Man Jimmy Stiles (1999-2001)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Wonder Woman (3-Mar-2009) [VOICE]
The Pink Panther 2 (6-Feb-2009)
The Lodger (14-Jan-2009)
Nothing Like the Holidays (8-Nov-2008)
The Ten Commandments (19-Oct-2007) [VOICE]
Silk (11-Sep-2007)
The Company (5-Aug-2007)
The Hoax (15-Oct-2006)
The Da Vinci Code (17-May-2006)
Spider-Man 2 (30-Jun-2004)
Chronicles (16-May-2004)
Luther (26-Sep-2003)
Coffee and Cigarettes (7-Sep-2003)
Identity (23-Apr-2003)
Undertaking Betty (4-Oct-2002)
Frida (29-Aug-2002)
Murder on the Orient Express (22-Apr-2001)
Texas Rangers (Apr-2001)
Chocolat (15-Dec-2000)
The Miracle Maker (31-Mar-2000) [VOICE]
Magnolia (8-Dec-1999)
Dudley Do Right (21-Aug-1999)
The Treat (11-Oct-1998)
The Impostors (18-May-1998)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (14-Nov-1997)
Boogie Nights (8-Oct-1997)
A Further Gesture (28-Aug-1997)
Anna Karenina (4-Apr-1997)
Before and After (23-Feb-1996)
Mojave Moon (1996)
Species (7-Jul-1995)
Dead Man (26-May-1995)
The Perez Family (12-May-1995)
Hideaway (3-Mar-1995)
Maverick (20-May-1994)
White Fang II: Myth of the White Wolf (15-Apr-1994)
The Trial (13-May-1993)
Enchanted April (5-Apr-1992)
American Friends (22-Mar-1991)
Not Without My Daughter (11-Jan-1991)
Prick Up Your Ears (8-May-1987)
Eleni (Nov-1985)
Water (4-Apr-1985)
Ladyhawke (29-Mar-1985)
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
Meantime (Feb-1984)
Reilly: The Ace of Spies (5-Sep-1983)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (12-Jun-1981)
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