Paul Lazar
{{Short description|American actor (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Paul Lazar
| image = Paul Lazar in the Debt (1993 film).jpg
| caption = Lazar in The Debt (1993)
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|03|26}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|theatre director}}
| years_active = {{circa|1983}}–present
| spouse = Annie-B Parson
| children = 1
}}
Paul Lazar is an American actor and theatre director. He co-founded Brooklyn's Big Dance Theater with his wife Annie-B Parson and Molly Hickok.{{Cite news |last=Rocco |first=Claudia La |date=2009-09-25 |title=Husband and Wife, Marrying Art Forms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/arts/dance/27laro.html |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Lazar is also known for appearing in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and collaborating with Bong Joon-ho on The Host (2006) and Snowpiercer (2013).
Life and career
Lazar began activity in the theater in New York during the 1980s as a member of the Irondale Ensemble Project. He met his future wife Annie-B Parson around 1983, and has worked on numerous productions with her since.{{Cite web |title=Big Dance Theater by John Haskell |url=http://bombmagazine.org/article/2950/big-dance-theater |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720123642/http://bombmagazine.org/article/2950/big-dance-theater |archive-date=July 20, 2014 |access-date=March 10, 2025 |website=Bomb}} In 1991, they co-founded the troupe Big Dance Theater in Brooklyn with Molly Hickok. They have also had a son together. As of 2015, he teaches acting at Rutgers University.{{Cite news |title=Paul Lazar |url=http://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/drama/lazar-p |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190613164735/https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/drama/lazar-p |archive-date=2019-06-13 |access-date=2025-03-10 |language=en}}
Lazar has also appeared in several films including Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and collaborating with Bong Joon-ho on The Host (2006) and Snowpiercer (2013).{{Cite web |last=Boyd |first=Colin |date=2014-06-27 |title=Snowpiercer |url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/snowpiercer/Film?oid=4767858 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Tucson Weekly |language=en}}
Selected filmography
- Streamers (1983)
- Married to the Mob (1988)
- Miami Vice (TV 1988) [1 episode; "Hostile Takeover"]
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Debt (1993)
- Philadelphia (1993)
- Trapped in Paradise (1994)
- Buffalo Girls (TV 1995)
- The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
- Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
- Beloved (1998)
- Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
- Sex and the City (TV 2002) [1 episode; "Luck Be an Old Lady"]
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
- The Host (2006)
- Anamorph (2007)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0493684}}
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Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male television actors