Kevin Spacey
Acting
- Born:
- 1959-07-26
- Place of birth:
- South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer, and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television. Spacey's first roles in film were in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), and Working Girl (1988). He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s, with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlife-crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999). His other starring roles have included Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks (1994), the psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the drama Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction-mystery film K-PAX (2001), the musical biopic Beyond the Sea (2004), the superhero film Superman Returns (2006), and the action film Baby Driver (2017). In Broadway theatre, Spacey starred in Long Day's Journey into Night in 1986 alongside Jack Lemmon. In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his role in Lost in Yonkers. He continued to act in theatre receiving his second Tony Award nomination for The Iceman Cometh in 1999. He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. In 2017, he hosted the 71st Tony Awards. From 2013 to 2017, Spacey played Frank Underwood in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, which won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series as well as five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. In October 2017, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Other men alleged that Spacey had made unwanted advances and had sexually harassed and assaulted them as well. Netflix cut ties with Spacey, shelving his film Gore and removing him from the last season of House of Cards. His role as J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott's film All the Money in the World (2017) was reshot with Christopher Plummer in his place. Spacey appeared in the 2018 film Billionaire Boys Club (which had been completed before the allegations surfaced), which was released with his role unchanged. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Spacey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
1780
Torrente for President
Minimarket
The Contract
Spacey Unmasked
Peter Five Eight
Control
The Man Who Drew God
Prince Andrew: Banished
Once Upon a Time in Croatia
Untouchable
Billionaire Boys Club
Rebel in the Rye
Baby Driver
The F Word
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Nine Lives
Elvis & Nixon
Race for the White House
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Unity
Nature Is Speaking
Horrible Bosses 2
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
Mad As Hell
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Day Kennedy Died
House of Cards
The Ventriloquist
Envelope
Spirit of a Denture
Inseparable
Evening Urgant
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Margin Call
Horrible Bosses
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?
Conan
Casino Jack
Father of Invention
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Shrink
Moon
Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Hackers Wanted
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
Recount
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Fred Claus
The Pixar Story
Superman Returns
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa
The Colbert Report
Edison
Beyond the Sea
The Tony Danza Show
Parkinson
Tavis Smiley
Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music Vol. 5
Declaration of Independence
The United States of Leland
Enough Rope With Andrew Denton
The Life of David Gale
America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Pursuing the Suspects
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
The Tower of Babble
Live from E!
The Shipping News
K-PAX
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
Good Day Live
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Pay It Forward
The Final Days
Ordinary Decent Criminal
The Big Kahuna
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
American Beauty
Forever Hollywood
Hurlyburly
A Bug's Life
The Negotiator
Steve McQueen: The King of Cool
Parkinson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
L.A. Confidential
The View
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
Looking for Richard
A Time to Kill
The Daily Show
Se7en
The Usual Suspects
Outbreak
Swimming with Sharks
Inside the Actors Studio
Doomsday Gun
The Ref
Iron Will
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
TriBeCa
Consenting Adults
Glengarry Glen Ross
HBO First Look
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Darrow
When You Remember Me
Henry & June
A Show of Force
Fall From Grace
Dad
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Unsub
Working Girl
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Rocket Gibraltar
The Murder of Mary Phagan
Wiseguy
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Crime Story
L.A. Law
Heartburn
The Equalizer
Goldene Kamera
American Playhouse
The South Bank Show
The Hollywood Greats
Saturday Night Live
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
The Awakening
Holiguards Saga: The Portal of Force
The Tenth Planet: The Red Sister - Part 1
The Awakening 2
Melodies in the Forest