Kevin Spacey

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Date of Birth: 1959-07-26 (age 67)
Nationality: United States
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.

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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.

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Was expelled from Northridge (CA) Military Academy for throwing a tire at a classmate.
Burned his sister's treehouse down when they were children. This caused his parents to opt for military school, which he promptly left for Chatsworth High School.
His mother was his date for the Academy Awards the night he won.
In February 2001, he appears twice in Total Film's (U.K) '10 Greatest Villains of All Time' poll. His "John Doe", from Seven (1995) , reached #10, while his character in The Usual Suspects (1995) was voted #5.
His older brother, Randy Fowler, makes a living as a Rod Stewart impersonator and limousine driver based in Boise, Idaho.
In a Butterfields L.A. auction on September 10, 2001, the Oscar won by George Stoll for Anchors Aweigh (1945) was being auctioned for $157,000. He bought it and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
On April 17, 2004, he suffered a head injury in London after tripping over his dog while pursuing a young man who had stolen his cell phone. Initially, he reported that the injury was the result of a mugging, but later admitted the truth and stated that he was embarrassed by the situation.
In May 1999, he was voted greatest actor of the decade by Empire magazine.
Is only one of eight actors who have a 2-0 win-loss record when nominated for an acting Oscar, his two wins for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999) . The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937) ; Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) ; Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Airport (1970) ; Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004) ; Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012) ; Mahershala Ali for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018) ; and Adrien Brody for The Pianist (2002) and The Brutalist (2024) .
Has said that working with Jack Lemmon on a stage production of Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) (the television edition of the stage production) changed his life. Previously possessive of a reckless ambition, he said he was amazed at how Lemmon was both a great actor and generous to a fault as both a co-star and a human being, teaching him that being a good person and a good actor were not mutually exclusive. He still considers Lemmon his role model.

Awards

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).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.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.

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