Alfred Molina
154 movies · 51 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1953 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Alfredo Molina
Biography
Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; May 24, 1953) is a British and American actor. He is known for his leading roles and character actor roles on the stage and screen. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a British Independent Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
He first rose to prominence in the West End, earning a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his performance in the production of Oklahoma! in 1980. He received Tony Award nominations for his roles on Broadway, playing Yvan in Art (1998), Tevyein Fiddler on the Roof (2004), and Mark Rothko in Red (2009). He returned to Broadway playing Professor Serebryakov in a revival of Uncle Vanya (2024).
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On film, he made his debut as Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He went on to receive two BAFTA Award nominations for his roles as Diego Rivera in Frida (2002) and Jack Mellor in An Education (2009). His other notable films include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Enchanted April (1992), Boogie Nights (1997), Chocolat (2000), Luther (2003), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and Love Is Strange (2014). He has voiced characters in Rango (2011), Monsters University (2013), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), and Frozen II (2019). He is also known for his portrayal of Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2 (2004) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
On television, Molina has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his roles as Ben Weeks in the HBO movie The Normal Heart (2014) and Robert Aldrich in the FXminiseries Feud: Bette and Joan (2017). His other notable television credits include Meantime (1983), Murder on the Orient Express (2001), and Three Pines (2022).
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Alfred Molina: movies and TV shows
Acting (204)
- Upcoming Poe
as Graham (voice)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2026 Remarkably Bright Creatures
as Marcellus (voice)
- 2026 When We Get There
as Marcus
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024 The Instigators
as Richie Dechico
- 2024 Harold and the Purple Crayon
as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 Flutter
as Jerry (voice)
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022 DC League of Super-Pets
as Jor-El (voice)
- 2022
- 2022 PAW Patrol. Mission Xmas
as voice
- 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Dr. Otto Octavius / Doc Ock
- 2021
- 2021 Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
as Archie (voice)
- 2021
- 2020 Promising Young Woman
as Mr. Green (uncredited)
- 2020 The Water Man
as Jim Bussey
- 2020 Lino Tagliapietra: The Making of a Maestro
as Narrator
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019 Frozen II
as Agnarr (voice)
- 2019 Don't Let Go
as Howard Keleshian
- 2019
- 2019 The Devil Has a Name
as Big Boss
- 2019 Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
as Aubrey Fields / Captain
- 2018 Vice
as Waiter (uncredited)
- 2018 Henchmen
as Baron Blackout (voice)
- 2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet
as Double Dan (voice)
- 2018 National Theatre Live: Red
as Mark Rothko
- 2018 The Front Runner
as Ben Bradlee
- 2018 Sam Did It
as Alfred Molina
- 2018 Saint Judy
as Ray Hernandez
- 2018
- 2018 The Overcoat
as Grandfather (voice)
- 2018 Summer Camp Island · TV
as Monster Under the Bed / Oscar's Dad (voice) / Monster Under the Bed (voice) / Additional Voices (voice) / Andy (voice) · 12 episodes
- 2018 Quality Problems
as Bakery Dishwasher (uncredited)
- 2018 Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
as La Sombra (voice)
- 2017 Message from the King
as Preston
- 2017 Long Day's Journey Into Night
as James Tyrone
- 2017
- 2017 Justice League Dark
as Destiny (voice)
- 2017 Breakable You
as Paul Weller
- 2016
- 2016 Sister Cities
as Mort Stone
- 2016 A Family Man
as Lou Wheeler
- 2016 Little Men
as Hernán
- 2016 Paint It Black
as Cal
- 2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as Ali Massoud Sadiq
- 2016 Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
as Jerry Schrager
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015 The Robot Chicken DC Comics Special III: Magical Friendship
as Lex Luthor (voice)
- 2015 Secret in Their Eyes
as Martin Morales
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015 Strange Magic
as Fairy King (voice)
- 2015 Road to Capri
as Edmond
- 2014
- 2014 We'll Never Have Paris
as Terry
- 2014 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
as Sergeant (voice)
- 2014 Love Is Strange
as George
- 2014
- 2014 Heavenly Sword
as King Bohan (voice)
- 2014 The Normal Heart
as Ben Weeks
- 2014 Return to Zero
as Robert Royal
- 2014 Swelter
as Doc
- 2014 Robot Chicken DC Comics Special II: Villains in Paradise
as Lex Luthor / Green Arrow (voice)
- 2014
- 2014 The Stowaway
as Command Delhart (voice)
- 2013
- 2013 Justin and the Knights of Valour
as Reginald (voice)
- 2013 Monsters University
as Professor Knight (voice)
- 2013 The Truth About Emanuel
as Dennis
- 2013 Bless Me, Ultima
as Voice of Antonio
- 2013
- 2012 Loving Miss Hatto
as William Barrington Coupe
- 2012 Children's Theater Critic with Alfred Molina
as Arthur H. Cartwright
- 2012
- 2012 Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special
as Lex Luthor / Firestorm / Mr. Banjo (voice)
- 2012
- 2012 Serena
as Priest
- 2011 Innocent
as Sandy Stern
- 2011 Abduction
as Frank Burton
- 2011 The Forger
as Everly
- 2011 Rango
as Roadkill (voice)
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010 The Tempest
as Stephano
- 2010
- 2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
as Maxim Horvath
- 2010 Red
as Mark Rothko
- 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
as Sheik Amar
- 2010 Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen Of Cremona
as Narrator
- 2009 Yes, Virginia
as Francis Church (voice)
- 2009 An Education
as Jack Mellor
- 2009 Lessons in Self-Defense
as Ben
- 2009 Angels & Demons
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2009 Wonder Woman
as Ares (voice)
- 2009 The Pink Panther 2
as Pepperidge
- 2009 The Little Traitor
as Dunlop
- 2009 The Lodger
as Chandler Manning
- 2009 Big Guy
as Kent
- 2008 Nothing Like the Holidays
as Edy Rodriguez
- 2007 The Ten Commandments
as Ramses (voice)
- 2007 Silk
as Baldabiou
- 2007 Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
as Professor Jeffries (voice)
- 2007
- 2007 The Moon and the Stars
as Davide Rieti
- 2006 Orchids
as Cliff
- 2006 The Hoax
as Dick Suskind
- 2006 As You Like It
as Touchstone
- 2006 The Da Vinci Code
as Bishop Manuel Aringarosa
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 Spider-Man 2
as Doc Ock / Otto Octavius
- 2004 The Pot That Juan Built
as Narrator
- 2004 Crónicas
as Victor Hugo Puente
- 2004 Coffee and Cigarettes
as Alfred (segment "Cousins?")
- 2003 Ape
as Mendez (Voice)
- 2003 Luther
as Johann Tetzel
- 2003 Identity
as Doctor
- 2003 My Life Without Me
as Ann's Father
- 2002 Pete's Meteor
as Hugh
- 2002 Undertaking Betty
as Boris Plots
- 2002
- 2002 Frida
as Diego Rivera
- 2002
- 2001 Texas Rangers
as John King Fisher
- 2001
- 2001 Murder on the Orient Express
as Hercule Poirot
- 2000 Chocolat
as Count Paul de Reynaud
- 2000 The Miracle Maker
as Simon the Pharisee (voice)
- 1999 Magnolia
as Solomon Solomon
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 Dudley Do-Right
as Snidely Whiplash
- 1999 Family Guy · TV
as Panamanian Man (voice) / Chris' Neighbor (voice) / David Attenborough / Dr. Snelling (voice) / Mr. Perez (voice) · 4 episodes
- 1998 The Impostors
as Sir Jeremy Burtom
- 1998 The Treat
as The Colonel
- 1998
- 1998 Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples
as Emile Taquet
- 1997 The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Boris
- 1997 Boogie Nights
as Rahad Jackson
- 1997 Anna Karenina
as Levin
- 1997 A Further Gesture
as Tulio
- 1996 Mojave Moon
as Sal
- 1996 Scorpion Spring
as Denis Brabant
- 1996 Before and After
as Panos Demeris
- 1995 Dead Man
as Trading Post Missionary
- 1995 Nervous Energy
as Ira
- 1995 Species
as Dr. Stephen Arden
- 1995 The Perez Family
as Juan Raul Perez
- 1995 The Steal
as Cliff
- 1995 Hideaway
as Jonas
- 1994 Requiem Apache
as Hamish
- 1994 Maverick
as Angel
- 1994 White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf
as Reverend Leland Drury
- 1994 Cabin Boy
as School Professor (uncredited)
- 1993 When Pigs Fly
as Marty
- 1993 The Trial
as Titorelli
- 1993
- 1993 Typhon's People
as Andreus
- 1992 Trust Me
as Harry Greaves
- 1992 A Very Polish Practice
as Tadeusz Melnick
- 1992 Angels
as George
- 1991 Enchanted April
as Mellersh Wilkins
- 1991
- 1991 The Trials of Oz
as George Melly
- 1991 Hancock
as Tony Hancock
- 1991 American Friends
as Oliver Syme
- 1991 Not Without My Daughter
as Moody
- 1990
- 1990 Drowning in the Shallow End
as The Italian
- 1989 Revolutionary Witness
as Robert Sauveur
- 1989 The Accountant
as Lionel Ellerman
- 1989
- 1989 Virtuoso
as John Ogden
- 1988 Manifesto
as Avanti
- 1987 Blat
as Gino
- 1987 Prick Up Your Ears
as Kenneth Halliwell
- 1986
- 1986
- 1985 Letter to Brezhnev
as Sergei
- 1985
- 1985 Ladyhawke
as Cezar
- 1985 Number One
as DC Rogers
- 1985 Water
as Pierre
- 1985
- 1984 Angels in the Annexe
as Mike Brittain
- 1984
- 1983 Meantime
as John
- 1983
- 1982 Anyone for Denis
as Eric
+ 4 more credits
Behind the camera (3)
- 2022
- 2021 2 Timers
Executive Producer
- 2018 Saint Judy
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (20)
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2013 Drunk History
1 episode
- 2013 The Frame
1 episode
- 2012
- 2006
- 2006 The One Show
1 episode
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2 episodes
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 The Tony Danza Show
1 episode
- 2003
- 2003 VH1 Goes Inside
1 episode
- 1998 Hollywood Squares
5 episodes
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1993 GMTV
1 episode
- 1971 Film '72
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode