Born in London to a Spanish father and Italian mother, dark-haired, dark-eyed character actor Alfred Molina has lent his tall, chameleonic presence to a wide range of stage and film roles. His coloring has allowed him to play almost every conceivable nationality, from a bushy-headed Russian sailor ("Letter to Brezhnev" 1985) to an Iranian in Western clothing ("Not Without My Daughter" 1988), a Cuban refugee ("The Perez Family" 1995) and a Greek-American lawyer ("Before and After" 1996). Though often tapped for villains, this closet comic, whose greatest hero is the late British comedian Tommy