James Spader's biography

James Todd Spader is 62 years old actor born at Boston. He was born on Sunday 7th of February 1960. He is often nicknamed as Jimmy. According to year of birth 1960 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 7th of February means he is Aquarius. Aquarius is an Airy sign. They are smart thinkers, social, communicative, independent and intelligent people.

James is native american english speaker. He is white american. James is citizen of United States of America. James´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as television actor. James is recently known as film actor. James received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series The Practice in 2004

James Spader's dad

James Spader's father's name is Stoddard Greenwood (Todd) Spader.

James Spader's mom

James Spader's mother's name is Jean Fraser.

James Spader's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Phillips Academy, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Detailed informations about James´s schools

Was close friends with John Kennedy Jr., both having attended Phillips Academy (Andover) high school together. Spader even dined occasionally with John Jr. at his mother Jacqueline Kennedy's Upper East Side apartment in New York.

James Spader's career

James´s main focus is to be actor. He is famous thanks to Tuff Turf, Sex, Lies and Videotape. You could see James also in The Practice, Boston Legal.

Is James Spader gay ?

He is known to be straight.

James Spader's girlfriend

Leslie Stefanson

James Spader and Leslie Stefanson have been together. She is known as actor. James´s girlfriend was born on Monday 10th of May 1971 in Fargo.

Awards and competitions

James Spader's Awards

He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for work The Practice in 2004
James received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for work Boston Legal in 2005
James received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for work Boston Legal in 2007

What else you don't know about James Spader ?

James´s middle name is Todd.

What James Spader has done for a first time

First performer to win Leading Drama Actor Emmy Awards for portraying the same character (Alan Shore) on two different series (The Practice (1997) and Boston Legal (2004)).
He was working as a janitor at a rehearsal studio run by acting teacher & casting director Trent Gough in Times Square when he landed his first feature film Endless Love (1981).

James Spader's quotes

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I don't mind going to somebody and saying, "Okay, this is how much money I need to pay my bills for the next six months. If you pay me that, I'll do the film.".
Studio people are afraid of Crash (1996). It makes a statement about whoever releases the film. Miramax took a lot of flak for releasing Kids (1995). The same will happen for whoever releases Crash (1996).
I have my own artistic sensibilities and Crash (1996) complements them. It is a provocative, challenging, disturbing film made for adults. It's not a skeleton in the closet for me.
[on his sadomasochistic scenes in the movie Secretary (2002)] I did something in that scene that I'd never done in a film before but that's been the case with so many of my movies.
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
[2005] I've had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
[1995] I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.
When you're a kid running around playing make-believe, everything is changing from moment to moment - and a television show is like that too. That's what I got into the business for! I like to know just enough to do the job.
I've always loved antiheroes. Those were the characters I was drawn to growing up, and if I'm equipped to play a hero at all, it's certainly an antihero!

James Spader's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how James Spader looks. We will focus on his height, body shape, eye color and hair color. James is tall as 5' 10" (178 cm). Body build is average. His eyes are tinted blue. James´s hair is shade of red.

James Spader