Alfred Molina

Born May 24, 1953, in London to a Spanish father and an Italian mother, Alfred Molina honed his acting skills in the Royal Shakespeare Company before debuting on the silver screen in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). His big break came in 1986 with Letter to Brezhnev.

Endlessly adaptable, Molina went on to play parts of far-ranging ethnic diversity, including an Iranian in Not Without My Daughter (1991) and famed Mexican painter Diego Rivera in the 2002 biopic Frida (which brought the actor a BAFTA nod). Before his portrayal of eight-limbed villain Dr. Otto Octavius in the blockbuster Spider-Man 2 (2004), Molina starred in the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," which earned him a Tony nomination.

Molina's later notable roles include the cunning Bishop Aringarosa in the The Da Vinci Code (2006) and a turn as a parochial father in An Education, which brought another BAFTA nod.

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