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James Spader

James Spader

Birthday: 1960-02-07 | Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor and producer. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Stargate (1994), Crash (1996), Secretary (2002), and Lincoln (2012). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played the titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), which he portrayed through voice and motion capture. His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in The Practice (1997-2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004-2008) (for which he won three Emmy Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office (2005-2013). He also stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond "Red" Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist, (2013-) for which he has earned two Golden Globe Award nominations. Description above is from the Wikipedia article James Spader, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron

as    Ultron (voice)

2014
The Homesman

as    Aloysius Duffy

2013
The Blacklist

as    Raymond 'Red' Reddington

2012
Lincoln

as    W.N. Bilbo

2004
Boston Legal

as    Alan Shore

2004
Shadow of Fear

as    William Ashbury

2003
The Pentagon Papers

as    Daniel Ellsberg

2003
I Witness

as    Douglas Draper

2003
Alien Hunter

as    Julian Rome

2002
The Stickup

as    John Parker

2002
Secretary

as    Mr. Grey

2001
Speaking of Sex

as    Dr. Roger Klink

2000
The Watcher

as    FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell

2000
Slow Burn

as    Marcus

1998
Curtain Call

as    Stevenson Lowe

1997
The Practice

as    Alan Shore

1997
Critical Care

as    Dr. Werner Ernst

1997
Crash

as    James Ballard

1997
Keys to Tulsa

as    Ronnie Stover

1997
Driftwood

as    The Man

1996
2 Days in the Valley

as    Lee Woods

1994
Stargate

as    Dr. Daniel Jackson

1994
Dream Lover

as    Ray Reardon

1994
Wolf

as    Stewart Swinton

1991
True Colors

as    Tim Gerrity

1990
White Palace

as    Max Baron

1990
Bad Influence

as    Michael Boll

1989
The Rachel Papers

as    Deforest