Oscar nominee Frank Langella will be reprising his role as Gabriel in season four of FX’s critically acclaimed series The Americans. The Americans is set in the 1980s and stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Russian spies attempting to blend in as a normal American family. Langella’s Gabriel works with Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell’s characters as a KGB handler.
“Frank brings such instant depth and complexity to the part,” stated executive producer Joel Fields. “You know that Gabriel loves Philip and Elizabeth. But you can also feel, on a visceral level, what he’s been through as a Soviet. And if he needs them to do what they don’t want to do, he’s going to use everything in his power to make sure they do it.”
“What we were looking for when we first conceived of the part,” explained The Americans creator/executive producer Joe Weisberg, “was an actor who could really seemed paternal, in all that that word means: loving, nurturing, but also intimidating and demanding when it was required. Frank just gives you the sense of history: the history of a man who’s been through a lot, but also that particularly sad, deep, yearning history of Russia that frankly, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky make one feel. It’s just awesome to be able to write for him.”
Langella was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Frost/Nixon. He’s been busy working in feature films and on TV since the mid 1960s, and he’s just about to start work on Youth in Oregon this June. In addition, Langella has three films coming to theaters this year: 5 to 7, Driftless Area, and Captain Fantastic.
-By Rebecca Murray
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