Biography
Paul Lazar is an American actor, director, and teacher. As an actor he is best known for his collaborations with Jonathan Demme, having appeared in six of Demme’s films including The Silence of the Lambs (1991). In addition to his film work, he is co-founder of Big Dance Theatre and an associate member of The Wooster Group, and currently teaches theater at Harvard.
Movie Credits
The Silence of the Lambs
1991-02-14
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int
Sweet Relief
2023-12-09
A woman's dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991-08-18
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
On the Run
1999-01-29
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend
Six Ways to Sunday
1999-03-05
Harry Odum is a henpecked 18-year-old momma's boy with a violent temper in Youngstown, Ohio. After i
Memories
2021-09-08
I read a fairy tale called "The Girl Who Destroyed the World." The girl's name is Marin. The word me
From Other Worlds
2004-10-29
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her
The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems
Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activis
Suits
1999-01-10
A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995-09-15
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox fi
Henry Fool
1998-06-19
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
The Favor
2007-10-19
A troubled teenager, left alone after his mother's sudden death, is befriended and offered a home by
The Debt
1993-12-10
In the midst of the current recession, a series of disastrous telephone messages triggers a major do
Married to the Mob
1988-08-19
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime wo
Philadelphia
1993-12-22
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un
Mickey Blue Eyes
1999-08-16
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "fav
Money Kings
1998-12-04
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. T
Los Locos
1997-01-02
In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people ac
Snowpiercer
2013-08-01
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst
Ghostwritten
2022-06-19
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a re
Experimenter
2015-10-16
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this
Trapped in Paradise
1994-12-02
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Silent Street
2016-03-29
Crosby Street Hotel, an outsider becomes an insider. Finding what’s been missing for so long, up in
Toe Tags
1996-01-01
The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just go
All the Words on the Page
2024-06-19
When a script is unexpectedly switched, a dyslexic actor struggles to navigate his conservatory audi
Cymbeline
2014-09-03
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
10 Crosby
2016-02-02
A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.
Another Telepathic Thing
2015-06-08
A live performance film documenting Big Dance Theater's production Another Telepathic Thing, a piece
How to Seduce Difficult Women
2009-10-30
Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challeng
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013-10-10
In this retelling of an Italian folktale, a man marries the youngest of three sisters and shares a v
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016-04-01
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of ch
Streamers
1983-09-05
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one anoth
Beloved
1998-10-16
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver
No Such Thing
2002-03-29
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creat
Taking the Heat
1993-06-06
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police
Lorenzo's Oil
1992-12-30
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is di
Subway Stories
1997-07-24
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which ra
Anamorph
2007-09-21
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates
29th Street
1991-11-01
After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
2020-05-12
Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's
The Host
2006-07-27
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han Rive
Brace Up!
1993-04-01
The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and dire
Rachel Getting Married
2008-09-03
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend
The Manchurian Candidate
2004-07-30
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terribl
Speechless
1994-12-16
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick
The Substitute 2: School's Out
1998-08-01
When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his
Arresting Gena
1997-01-27
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) an