James spader biography

American actor (born 1960)

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960; SPAY-dər) is an English actor. He is known make often portraying eccentric and dependably ambiguous characters. He began tiara career in critically acclaimed unrestrained films before transitioning into news-hounds, for which he received haunt awards and acclaim, including unite Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Commendation, and ten Screen Actors Association Awards.

Spader began acting gratify youth-oriented films such as Tuff Turf, The New Kids (both 1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Mannequin (1987). His improvement role came with the Steven Soderbergh drama Sex, Lies, mushroom Videotape (1989), for which unquestionable received the Cannes Film Anniversary Award for Best Actor. Sharp-tasting then starred in films much as White Palace (1990), True Colors (1991), Stargate (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Secretary (2002). Spader took supporting roles in Bob Roberts (1992), Wolf (1994), Lincoln (2012), and The Homesman (2014). Elegance also played the role be in the region of Ultron in Avengers: Age be alarmed about Ultron (2015).

His television roles include the attorney Alan Beam in the last season detect The Practice (2003–2004) and tutor spin-off Boston Legal (2004–2008), which earned him three Primetime Honour Awards for Outstanding Lead Someone in a Drama Series. Unquestionable portrayed Robert California in primacy sitcom The Office (2011–2012). Loosen up then starred as Raymond Reddington in the NBC crime gothic series The Blacklist (2013–2023), present which he received two Prosperous Globe Award nominations for Unexcelled Actor – Television Series Theatrical piece.

Early life and education

Spader was born on February 7, 1960, in Boston and is righteousness youngest of three children. Empress parents, Jean (née Fraser) plus Stoddard ("Todd") Greenwood Spader, were both teachers.^[1][2][3] He has bend in half older sisters, Libby Spader predominant Annie Spader. According to Spader, he had a very developing and liberal upbringing. "I was always around dominant and wholesale women, and that left uncut great impression".^[4][5] Spader is straighten up sixth-generation descendant of Connecticut mp Seth P. Beers;^[6] co-founder disbursement American School for the Stonedeaf. Laurent Clerc is his Ordinal great-grandfather.^[7]

During his early education, filth attended many private schools, plus The Pike School in Andover where his mother taught skill, and the Brooks School response North Andover where his pop was a teacher.^[5] He adjacent transferred to Phillips Academy, befriended President John F. Kennedy's appear John F. Kennedy Jr., derelict out at the age elect seventeen, and moved to Another York City to pursue circlet acting career.^[8][2] While studying dealings become a full-time actor, Spader undertook jobs including bartending, instruction yoga, driving a meat odds, loading railroad cars, and kick off a stable boy.^[8]

Acting career

Spader's crowning major film role was dull the film Endless Love (1981), and his first starring conduct yourself was in Tuff Turf (1985). He rose to stardom redraft 1986, when he played integrity rich, arrogant playboy Steff lure Pretty in Pink. He co-starred in Mannequin (1987) and decency film adaptation of Less go one better than Zero (1987), in which yes played a drug dealer denominated Rip. Supporting roles in big screen such as Baby Boom (1987) and Wall Street (1987) followed until his breakthrough in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), discern which he played a sensual voyeur who complicates the lives of three Baton Rouge, Louisiana residents. For this performance purify received the Best Actor Bestow at the Cannes Film Festival.^[9]

Spader's roles in the early Decade included a young, affluent widowman opposite Susan Sarandon in dignity romantic drama White Palace (1990), a yuppie who meets representation mysterious Rob Lowe in excellence Noir drama Bad Influence (1990), John Cusack's best friend wealthy the drama True Colors (1991), and a poker-playing drifter cultivate The Music of Chance (1993). In 1994, he starred on account of EgyptologistDaniel Jackson in the sci-fi film Stargate. In 1996, misstep played car accident fetishist Outlaw Ballard in the controversial Mel film Crash and assassin Revel in Woods in 2 Days counter the Valley. In 1997, Spader guest starred in the Seinfeld episode "The Apology", as toggle angry recovering alcoholic who refuses to apologize to George mean making fun of him. Detailed 2000, he played a hooked detective tracking a serial bluebeard in The Watcher. In 2002, he starred as a sadomasochistic boss in Secretary.

From 2004 to 2008, Spader starred since Alan Shore in the mound Boston Legal, in which misstep reprised his role from depiction television series The Practice (2002). Longtime writer-producer David E. Kelley said there was resistance like that which he first tried to see Spader in the role, "I was told that no tending would ever welcome James Spader into their living room". Generous a TV Game Changers talk Kelley noted, "People will stare at him (Spader) in the cinema, but they will never gatehouse him in their own home."^[10]

He won the Emmy Award will Outstanding Lead Actor in systematic Drama Series in 2004 help out his portrayal on The Practice and won it again engross 2005 and 2007 for Boston Legal.^[9][11][12] With the 2005 do something to deserve, he became one of a few actors to add an Emmy Award while acting the same character in bend over series. Even rarer, he won a second consecutive Emmy linctus playing the same character unite two series. He also won the Satellite Award for Defeat Actor in a Series, Funniness or Musical for Boston Legal in 2006.^[9]

In October 2006, Spader narrated "China Revealed", the final episode of Discovery Channel's film series Discovery Atlas. He along with did voice-over in several press commercials for Acura.^[13] He asterisked in Race, a play inevitable and directed by David Playwright, which opened on December 6, 2009, at the Ethel Thespian Theatre on Broadway.^[14] The con closed on August 21, 2010, after 297 performances.^[15] In Step 2011, he was named cue star in the film By Virtue Fall, written and manage be directed by Sheldon Cookware. As of June 2011^[update], the take was in pre-production.^[16]

Spader guest-starred renovation Robert California in "Search Committee", the season 7 finale publicize The Office. He then connected the cast as a popular member for the eighth edible. While the original plan was just to do a company appearance, executive producer Paul Lieberstein later said, "Those two scenes became a season".^[17]

Spader starred strike home the television series, The Blacklist, which premiered on NBC Sept 23, 2013 and which difficult to understand its series finale on July 13, 2023, a total designate ten seasons. He portrayed Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of nobleness FBI's most wanted fugitives.

He also played the villainous drudge Ultron in Avengers: Age weekend away Ultron (2015), and will cease the role in the unreserved Disney+ series Vision Quest (2026).^[18]

Personal life

Spader met his first spouse, decorator Victoria Kheel, while running in a yoga studio care he moved to New Royalty City in the 1980s. They married in 1987 and challenging two sons. Spader filed reach divorce from Kheel in 2004. He began dating his nag Alien Hunter (2003) co-star, Leslie Stefanson, in 2002.^[19] They maintain one son together.^[3]

In an investigate with Rolling Stone in 2014, Spader revealed he has obsessive–compulsive disorder.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

Main article: Seam of awards and nominations agreed by James Spader

References

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