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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Birthday: 1959-07-26 | Place of Birth: South Orange, New Jersey, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
The Man Who Drew God

as    Detective

2022
Once Upon a Time in Croatia

as    Franjo Tudjman

2018
Billionaire Boys Club

as    Ron Levin

2017
Baby Driver

as    Doc

2017
Rebel in the Rye

as    Whit Burnett

2016
Elvis & Nixon

as    Richard Nixon

2016
Nine Lives

as    Tom Brand

2014
Horrible Bosses 2

as    Dave Harken

2014
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

as    Himself (Richard Duke of Gloucester)

2012
Inseparable

as    Chuck

2011
Horrible Bosses

as    Dave Harken

2011
Margin Call

as    Sam Rogers

2010
Casino Jack

as    Jack Abramoff

2010
Father of Invention

as    Robert Axle

2009
Moon

as    GERTY (voice)

2009
Shrink

as    Henry Carter

2009
The Men Who Stare at Goats

as    Larry Hooper

2009
Hackers Wanted

as    Narrator

2008
Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

as    Major Banks

2008
21

as    Micky Rosa

2008
Recount

as    Ron Klain

2006
Superman Returns

as    Lex Luthor

2005
Edison

as    Wallace

2004
The United States of Leland

as    Albert T. Fitzgerald

2004
Beyond the Sea

as    Bobby Darin

2003
The Life of David Gale

as    David Gale

2001
K-PAX

as    Prot

2001
The Shipping News

as    Quoyle