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In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

Stephen Lang

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

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About Stephen Lang

Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as main antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar (2009), for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lang reprised the role in the sequel Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).
Lang is also known for roles in films such as Manhunter (1986), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), Gettysburg and Tombstone (both 1993), Gods and Generals (2003), Public Enemies, The Men Who Stare at Goats (all 2009), Conan the Barbarian (2011), Don't Breathe (2016) and its sequel Don't Breathe 2 (2021). His television roles include Commander Nathaniel Taylor on Terra Nova (2011), Waldo on Into the Badlands (2015-18), and David Cord on The Good Fight (2021).
Besides his film roles, he has had an extensive career on Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in the 1992 production of The Speed of Darkness. Other accolades include a Helen Hayes Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award, for his one-man show Beyond Glory, as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. From 2004 to 2006, he was co–artistic director of the Actors Studio.