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Alfred Molina is an accomplished and versatile actor with more than 70, film, television and theater productions to his credit. He recently completed the feature The Little Traitor in Israel and filmed the adaptation of the Amos Oz Prize book Panther in the Basement, as well as The Da Vinci Code for director Ron Howard.

Molina made his movie debut with a small but memorable role in Raiders of the Lost Ark and had a notable role as a Soviet sailor in Letter to Brezhnev. His breakthrough role came in 1987, when he portrayed Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. In 1998, Molina earned accolades for his powerful performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's film Boogie Nights, which won the Screen Actors Guild Award® for outstanding performance by an ensemble cast in a theatrical motion picture. His other films include The Imposters, Anna Karenina, Species, The Perez Family, Maverick, Enchanted April, Pete's Meteor, Not Without My Daughter, Dudley Do-Right and Texas Rangers. Some of his other films include Frida, opposite Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush and Ashley Judd, which earned him Best Supporting Actor nominations from BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild, the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Critics Association. He also appeared in the Columbia Pictures thriller Identity, opposite John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet; the Jim Jarmusch film Coffee and Cigarettes; and Undertaking Betty, a comedy with Brenda Blethyn, Naomi Watts and Christopher Walken.

For television, he served as a producer and actor for the CBS situation comedy Ladies Man, co-starring Sharon Lawrence and Betty White.

Molina made his Broadway debut in 1998 in the Tony winning play Art, with Alan Alda and Victor Garber. In addition to his own Best Actor Tony nomination, he received a Drama Desk Award for his performance, and the production was honored with an Outer Circle Critics Award for best ensemble. He also starred in the off-Broadway production of Molly Sweeney, for which he was honored with a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Most Outstanding Debut Performance. His other theatre credits include roles in two Royal National Theatre productions, Night of the Iguana and David Mamet's Speed the Plow, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance; and Serious Money for the Royal Court Theatre and The West End. Molina also received an Olivier Award nomination for his performance in Oklahoma at the Palace Theatre.