Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina is a famous actor who voices the leader of the Dragon Hunters; Viggo Grimborn.

Biography and Career
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He joined the National Youth Theater at age 16. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for a few years, finally became a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977.

His stage work includes two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" (as Shannon) and David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" (as Fox), plus a splendid performance in Yasmina Reza's "Art" (his Broadway debut), for which he received a Tony Award nomination in 1998. He made his film debut in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and got a good part in Letter to Brezhnev (1985) (as a Soviet sailor who spends a night in Liverpool), but his movie breakthrough came two years later when he played--superbly--Kenneth Halliwell, the tragic lover of playwright Joe Orton, in Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987). He was also outstanding in Enchanted April (1991), The Perez Family (1995) (as a Cuban immigrant), Anna Karenina (1997) (as Levin), and Chocolat (2000) (as the narrow-minded mayor of a small French town circa 1950s, who tries to shut down a chocolate shop).

Selected Filmography

 * Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (Satipo)
 * The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) (Maxim Horvath - actor & voice)
 * Monsters University (2013) (Professor Knight - voice)
 * DreamWorks Dragons: The Series (2016 - present) (Viggo Grimborn - voice)

Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 2
-Night of the Hunters, Part 2

-Snow Way Out

-Edge of Disaster, Part 2

-Maces and Talons, Part 1

-Maces and Talons, Part 2

Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 3
-Buffalord Soldier

-Between a Rock and a Hard Place

-Family on the Edge

-Last Auction Heroes

-Defenders of the Wing, Part 1

Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 4
-Defenders of the Wing, Part 2

-Midnight Scrum

-Dire Straits

-The Longest Day

-Gold Rush

-Twintuition

-Shell Shocked, Part 1

-Shell Shocked, Part 2

Trivia

 * Coincidentally, he and Jay Baruchel (who plays Hiccup) play in the movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice.