Frank Langella has long been considered among America’s greatest actors. He was nominated for the Oscar, Golden Globe, and Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as the disgraced former President of the United States in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. Other acclaimed performances include those in Stephen Frears’ Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight for HBO Films, Jake Schreier’s Robot and Frank, Andrew Wagner’s Starting Out in the Evening (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination), Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as “Perry White” in Superman Returns, Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate, Ivan Reitman’s Dave and Draft Day, Adrian Lyne’s Lolita, as “William Paley” in George Clooney’s Good Night and Good Luck, and as the title role in John Badham’s Dracula.

Currently, he can be seen in Aaron Sorkin’s Netflix feature The Trial of the Chicago 7, for which he has earned rave reviews for his portrayal of Judge Julius Hoffman.

Langella was recently seen in Jay Roach’s All the Way, playing “Senator Richard Russell” opposite Bryan Cranston for HBO Films, Captain Fantastic opposite Viggo Mortensen, the Emmy nominated F/X series The Americans, and on the acclaimed comedy series Kidding opposite Jim Carrey and Catherine Keener for Showtime.

Langella is the recipient of 4 Tony Awards and 7 Tony nominations. He won most recently for The Father, for which he also received a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Award. Before that, his performance as King Lear in 2013 was unanimously praised both in London at the Chichester Shakespeare Festival and in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2003.

Roger Rosenblatt is the author of five New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and three Times bestsellers. He has written seven off-Broadway plays and his essays for TIME magazine and the PBS NewsHour have won two George Polk Awards, the Peabody, and the Emmy, among others. In 2015, he won the Kenyon Review Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. He held the Briggs-Copeland appointment in the teaching of writing at Harvard. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton.