Kevin Spacey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kevin Spacey

American actor, director and producer

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1959

Place of Birth: South Orange, New Jersey, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, television producer, character actor, stage actor, voice actor, film director, film producer, theater director, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Kevin Spacey

  • Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor, producer, and singer.
  • Spacey began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles in film and television.
  • He gained critical acclaim in the 1990s that culminated in his first 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). Spacey's other starring roles have included 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 won a Tony Award in 1991 for his role in Lost in Yonkers.
  • In 2017, he hosted the 71st Tony Awards.
  • He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015.
  • From 2013 to 2017, he 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. In October 2017, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Rapp was 14.
  • Numerous other men subsequently came forward alleging that Spacey had sexually harassed or assaulted them.
  • In December 2018, Spacey was charged with indecent assault and battery in relation to an accusation by anchorwoman Heather Unruh that he sexually assaulted her 18-year-old son, but by July 2019, the criminal charge had been dropped. As a result of the allegations, Netflix cut ties with Spacey, shelving his film Gore and removing him from the last season of House of Cards.
  • Spacey's role as J.
  • Paul Getty in Ridley Scott's film All the Money in the World (2017) was reshot with actor Christopher Plummer in his place.
  • The next year, Spacey appeared in Billionaire Boys Club with his role unchanged.

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