Kevin Spacey

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 Spaceys 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 neonoir crime thriller The Usual Suspects 1995 and an Academy Award for Best Actor for the midlifecrisisthemed drama American Beauty 1999 His other starring roles have included Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 the comedydrama film Swimming with Sharks 1994 the psychological thriller Seven 1995 the neonoir crime film LA Confidential 1997 the drama Pay It Forward 2000 the science fictionmystery film KPAX 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 Days 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 mid2015 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 Scotts 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia