Kevin Spacey

Since childhood his primary allegiance has been the theatre, with roles beginning in junior high school and leading to Broadway. He trained at the Juilliard School of Drama and made his NY stage debut in Joseph Papp’s Central Park production of “Henry IV, Part I.” His breakthrough came when director Jonathan Miller cast Spacey as Jack Lemmon’s son in the 1986 Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night”. His close association with Jack Lemmon continued on David Mamet’s screen adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross.

In 1995, cinema audiences discovered Spacey in three distinct performances: as Buddy Ackerman in George Huang’s Swimming With Sharks; Verbal Kint in Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects; and John Doe in David Fincher’s Se7en. He has continued to build an impressive body of work with such films as L.A. Confidential, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Negotiator, Hurlyburly, Looking for Richard, The Big Kahuna, K-Pax, The Shipping News, The Life of David Gale, Superman Returns and American Beauty. Many of these performances have won him nominations and awards, including two Academy Awards® for Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects and Best Actor for American Beauty, for which he also received the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy’s BAFTA Award for Best Actor.

He made his directorial debut with Albino Alligator and also directed Beyond the Sea, while in 1997 he formed Trigger Street Productions. He has also served as the Artistic Director of London’s Old Vic Theatre Company.