Lance James Henriksen was born on May 5, 1940 in New York, USA. In 1970 Lance Henriksen had the opportunity to join the cast of a stage play for which he had painted the scenarios with the complication that he was illiterate. Gradually he learned to read, also thanks to the scripts of the works in which he started finding roles, in theater, television and cinema. He reached the pinnacle of fame in television when Cris Carter created the TV show “Millennium” thinking of him as the protagonist. The show ran for three seasons and he was nominated for a Golden Globe for three straight years. The show had a sort of ending in an episode of “The X-Files”.