Biography
Paul Lazar is an American actor and theatre director. He was born on 26 March 1955.
Lazar began working in New York theatre in the 1980s as a member of the Irondale Ensemble Project. In 1991 he co-founded Big Dance Theater with Annie-B Parson and Molly Hickok. He has also performed with The Wooster Group.
His film roles include Dr Pilcher in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Dr Klenstein in Philadelphia (1993), Professor Duncan in Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Gillespie in The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Ritchie Vitale in Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), the American Doctor in The Host (2006) and Paul in Snowpiercer (2013). He has collaborated repeatedly with director Jonathan Demme.
