Kevin Spacey

Actor

Born July 26, 1959 in 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.

Filmography

The Bleeding Ground

Sol Layton

The Awakening

Holiguards Saga: The Portal of Force

The Tenth Planet: The Red Sister - Part 1

Dr. David Harper

Melodies in the Forest

Petr Novotni

1780

Thomas

Torrente for President

Le Chief

Minimarket

Self

The Contract

The Devil

Spacey Unmasked

Self (archive footage)

Peter Five Eight

Peter

Control

The Voice

The Man Who Drew God

Detective

Prince Andrew: Banished

Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time in Croatia

Self - Host

Untouchable

Self (archive footage)

Billionaire Boys Club

Ron Levin

Rebel in the Rye

Whit Burnett

Manhunt

Baby Driver

Doc

The F Word

Self

Tony Bennett Celebrates 90

Self

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Verbal (archive footage)

Nine Lives

Tom Brand

The New Empress

Beauty Mark

Elvis & Nixon

Richard Nixon

Race for the White House

Narrator

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Unity

Narrator (voice)

Nature Is Speaking

The Rainforest

Horrible Bosses 2

Dave Harken

Jump!

The Mundane Goddess

The Gift

NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

Self (Richard Duke of Gloucester)

Mad As Hell

Self (archive footage)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

The Day Kennedy Died

Narrator

Captain Phillips

The Smile Man

House of Cards

Frank Underwood

The Ventriloquist

Frank

Envelope

Evgeniy

Spirit of a Denture

Dr. Robert Middling

Inseparable

Chuck

Evening Urgant

Self

Safe

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

(archive footage)

Margin Call

Sam Rogers

Horrible Bosses

Dave Harken

The Organ Grinder's Monkey

Fatty (voice)

How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook?

Self

Conan

Self

The Social Network

Casino Jack

Jack Abramoff

Father of Invention

Robert Axle

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Larry Hooper

Shrink

Henry Carter

Moon

GERTY (voice)

Söndagsparty med Filip & Fredrik

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Self - Guest

Fanboys

Hackers Wanted

Narrator

Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'

Self

Columbus Day

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

Major Banks

Recount

Ron Klain

Micky Rosa

Fred Claus

Clyde Archibald Northcutt

The Pixar Story

Hopper (voice) (archive footage)

Bernard and Doris

Mini's First Time

Superman Returns

Lex Luthor

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

Narrator (voice)

The Interrogation of Leo and Lisa

Interrogator

The Good Student

The Colbert Report

Self

Edison

Wallace

Beyond the Sea

Bobby Darin

Parkinson

Self - Guest

Tavis Smiley

Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music Vol. 5

Self

Declaration of Independence

Self

The United States of Leland

Albert T. Fitzgerald

Enough Rope With Andrew Denton

The Life of David Gale

David Gale

America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero

Narrator (voice)

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Kevin Spacey / Famous Dr. Evil ('Austinpussy')

Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'

Self

Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette

Self

The Tower of Babble

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Live from E!

Self

The Shipping News

Quoyle

K-PAX

Prot

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

Narrator

American Beauty: Look Closer...

Self

Pay It Forward

Eugene Simonet

Interstate 84

The Final Days

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Michael Lynch

The Big Kahuna

Larry Mann

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

Narrator

American Beauty

Lester Burnham

Forever Hollywood

Self

Hurlyburly

Mickey

A Bug's Life

Hopper (voice)

The Negotiator

Lt. Chris Sabian

Parkinson

Self

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

James Williams

L.A. Confidential

Jack Vincennes

The View

Self

Albino Alligator

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Self

Looking for Richard

Self / Earl of Buckingham

A Time to Kill

Rufus Buckley

The Daily Show

Self

Se7en

John Doe

The Usual Suspects

Verbal

Outbreak

Casey Schuler

Swimming with Sharks

Buddy Ackerman

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

Doomsday Gun

Jim Price

The Ref

Lloyd Chasseur

Iron Will

Harry Kingsley

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Late Show with David Letterman

Self - Guest

Consenting Adults

Eddy Otis

Glengarry Glen Ross

John Williamson

HBO First Look

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Darrow

Clarence Darrow

When You Remember Me

Wade

Henry & June

Richard Osborn

A Show of Force

Frank Curtin

Fall From Grace

Jim Bakker

Dad

Mario

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Kirgo

Unsub

Benton

Working Girl

Bob Speck

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Rocket Gibraltar

Dwayne Hanson

The Murder of Mary Phagan

Wes Brent

Wiseguy

Mel Profitt

Long Day's Journey Into Night

James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr.

Crime Story

Senator Rourke

L.A. Law

Giles Keenan

Heartburn

Subway Thief

The Equalizer

Detective Sgt. Cole

American Playhouse

Clarence Darrow

The Hollywood Greats

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Tony Awards

Self - Host

The Oscars

Self

Today

Self