Kevin Spacey
Born: 1959-07-26 in South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- 1780 as Thomas
2024
- The Contract as The Devil
- Peter Five Eight as Peter
- Spacey Unmasked as Self (archive footage)
2023
- The Man Who Drew God as Detective
- Control as The Voice
2022
- Prince Andrew: Banished as Self (archive footage)
- Once Upon a Time in Croatia as Self - Host
2019
- Untouchable as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Billionaire Boys Club as Ron Levin
2017
- Baby Driver as Doc
- Manhunt ... (Executive Producer)
- Rebel in the Rye as Whit Burnett
- The F Word as Self
2016
- Nine Lives as Tom Brand
- Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 as Self
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Verbal (archive footage)
- Race for the White House as Narrator
- Elvis & Nixon as Richard Nixon
- The New Empress ... (Producer)
- Beauty Mark ... (Producer)
- Home ... (Producer)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Unity as Narrator (voice)
- Nature Is Speaking as The Rainforest
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Horrible Bosses 2 as Dave Harken
- The Gift ... (Producer)
- Mad As Hell as Self (archive footage)
- The Mundane Goddess ... (Producer)
- NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage as Himself (Richard Duke of Gloucester)
- Jump! ... (Producer)
2013
- House of Cards as Frank Underwood
- Saving Norman ... (Producer)
- Captain Phillips ... (Executive Producer)
- The Smile Man ... (Producer)
- Love's Routine ... (Producer)
- The Day Kennedy Died as Narrator
2012
- Safe ... (Executive Producer)
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Inseparable as Chuck
- Envelope as Evgeniy
- Evening Urgant as Self
- The Ventriloquist as Frank
- Spirit of a Denture as Dr. Robert Middling
2011
- Margin Call as Sam Rogers
- Horrible Bosses as Dave Harken
- How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? as Self
- The Organ Grinder's Monkey as Fatty (voice)
- Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division as Self
2010
- Conan as Self
- The Social Network ... (Executive Producer)
- Casino Jack as Jack Abramoff
- Father of Invention as Robert Axle
2009
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- Fanboys ... (Producer)
- The Men Who Stare at Goats as Larry Hooper
- Shrink as Henry Carter
- Moon as GERTY (voice)
- Hackers Wanted as Narrator
- Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik
2008
- 21 as Micky Rosa
- Recount as Ron Klain
- Columbus Day ... (Producer)
- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story as Major Banks
- Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
- Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker as Self
- Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2007
- Fred Claus as Clyde Archibald Northcutt
- The Pixar Story as Hopper (voice) (archive footage)
2006
- Superman Returns as Lex Luthor
- Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman as Narrator (voice)
- Mini's First Time ... (Producer)
- The Good Student ... (Executive Producer)
- Bernard and Doris ... (Executive Producer)
- The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa as Interrogator
2005
- The Colbert Report as Self
- Edison as Wallace
2004
- The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
- Beyond the Sea as Bobby Darin
- Biography: Val Kilmer as Self
2003
- The Life of David Gale as David Gale
- The United States of Leland as Albert T. Fitzgerald
- Enough Rope With Andrew Denton
- Declaration of Independence as Self
2002
- Austin Powers in Goldmember as Kevin Spacey / Famous Dr. Evil ('Austinpussy')
- Live from E! as Self
- The Tower of Babble as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero as Narrator (voice)
- Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects' as Self
- Pursuing the Suspects as Himself
- Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette as Self
2001
- Good Day Live as Self
- K-PAX as Prot
- The Shipping News as Quoyle
- Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure as Narrator
2000
- Pay It Forward as Eugene Simonet
- Interstate 84 ... (Executive Producer)
- Ordinary Decent Criminal as Michael Lynch
- American Beauty: Look Closer... as Self
- The Final Days
1999
- American Beauty as Lester Burnham
- The Big Kahuna as Larry Mann
- Forever Hollywood as Self
- Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Narrator
1998
- The Negotiator as Lt. Chris Sabian
- A Bug's Life as Hopper (voice)
- Parkinson as Self
- Hurlyburly as Mickey
- Steve McQueen: The King of Cool as Self - Narrator (voice)
1997
- The View as Self
- L.A. Confidential as Jack Vincennes
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as James Williams
- Albino Alligator ... (Director)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- A Time to Kill as Rufus Buckley
- Looking for Richard as Self / Earl of Buckingham
- Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman as Self
1995
- Se7en as John Doe
- The Usual Suspects as Verbal
- Outbreak as Casey Schuler
1994
- The Ref as Lloyd Chasseur
- Iron Will as Harry Kingsley
- Doomsday Gun as Jim Price
- Swimming with Sharks as Buddy Ackerman
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- TriBeCa as Chris
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- HBO First Look
- Glengarry Glen Ross as John Williamson
- Consenting Adults as Eddy Otis
1991
- Darrow as Clarence Darrow
1990
- Henry & June as Richard Osborn
- A Show of Force as Frank Curtin
- Fall From Grace as Jim Bakker
- When You Remember Me as Wade
1989
- Dad as Mario
- See No Evil, Hear No Evil as Kirgo
- Unsub as Benton
1988
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
- Rocket Gibraltar as Dwayne Hanson
- Working Girl as Bob Speck
- The Murder of Mary Phagan as Wes Brent
1987
- Wiseguy as Mel Profitt
- Long Day's Journey Into Night as James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.
1986
- L.A. Law as Giles Keenan
- Crime Story as Senator Rourke
- Heartburn as Subway Thief
1985
- The Equalizer as Detective Sgt. Cole
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
1977
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self