Lance Henriksen

Born in New York, Henriksen studied at the Actors Studio and began his career Off Broadway in Eugene O’Neill’s Three Plays of the Sea.

One of his first film appearances was for director Sidney Lumet in Dog Day Afternoon, followed by Lumet's Network and Prince of the City.

Henriksen then appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfuss and Francois Truffaut, Damien: Omen II and director Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, in which Henriksen portrayed Mercury astronaut Lieutenant Commander Walter Schirra, Jr.

James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, followed by The Terminator, and he next featured him as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic, Aliens.

Director Sam Raimi cast the actor in The Quick and the Dead opposite Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman.

Henriksen's additional feature credits include Kathryn Bigelow's cult vampire film Near Dark, Jagged Edge and Pumpkinhead.

Lance also received a Saturn Award as Best Supporting Actor in director John Woo's first American film, Hard Target.

The actor returned to the Alien fold when he played the billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland in the monster scrap Alien Vs Predator.

In addition to his work as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter.

His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today.