Kevin Spacey's biography

Kevin Spacey is 63 years old film actor born at South Orange. He was born on Sunday 26th of July 1959. According to year of birth 1959 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 26th of July means he is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as theatrical director, film director, television actor, film producer, screenwriter, voice actor, character actor, stage actor, television producer. He is recently known as actor.

Kevin Spacey's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Juilliard School, Chatsworth High School, Los Angeles Valley College.

Detailed informations about his schools

Attended Chatsworth (CA) High School with Val Kilmer.

Kevin Spacey's career

His main focus is to be film actor. You could see him also in The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, Seven and many more.

Is Kevin Spacey gay ?

He is known to be homosexuality.

Awards and competitions

Kevin Spacey's Awards

His mother was his date for the Academy Awards the night he won.
Was the first Academy Award winner to be on The Daily Show (1996).
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 5, 1999.

Kevin Spacey's Rankings

In October 1997, he was ranked #56 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
His Oscar-winning performance as Verbal Kint from his film The Usual Suspects (1995) was ranked #48 on the American Film Institute's Villains list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
His performance as Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects (1995) is ranked #100 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Ranked #10 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
In Total Film's Top 100 Greatest Movie Villains, he ranked 65 for his role as Buddy Ackerman in Swimming with Sharks (1994). His Keiser Soze in The Usual Suspects (1995) was ranked 52 and his John Doe in Seven (1995) was ranked 13.

Kevin Spacey's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for The Game Awards − Best Performance for work Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare in 2014

What Kevin Spacey has done for a first time

Was the first choice to play the role of Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999).
Was the first Academy Award winner to be on The Daily Show (1996).
His guest appearance in Crime Story: The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob (1987) was his first major television appearance.
Was the first Hollywood star to be cast as a lead actor in a fully Chinese-financed film: Dayyan Eng's Inseparable (2011).
His first professional stage appearance was as a spear carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI, Part 1 in 1981.
He was the first choice to play Col. William Tavington in The Patriot (2000). After paying Mel Gibson $25 million, there was not enough in the budget to pay him.

Kevin Spacey's Donations

He met Venezuelan president Hugo ChÃ¡vez in September 2007, but never spoke to the press about their encounter. During the trip, he donated money to the Venezuelan film studio Villa del Cine.

Kevin Spacey's quotes

[on winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in American Beauty (1999))] This has definitely been the highlight of my day.
[on American Beauty (1999)] I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it.
[on assumptions by women that he is gay (NOTE: In 2017 he admitted that he was gay after years of unconfirmed speculation)] For them it's a challenge. They want to be the one to turn me around. I let them.
The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows an audience to come into a movie theatre and believe I am that person.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Beyond the Sea (2004) is not a linear story at all. It's not what people will expect and it's not a biopic. It's my statement.
[2/22/05 interview in "Women's World"] If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
I was beginning to feel I just didn't want to go through another ten years of living in hotels, making three or four movies a year. I long for the ritual of theater. I adore it. And I want to do plays that challenge me.
The movies are not my first priority--the theater is.
[on Albino Alligator (1996)] Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
I'm used to people thinking I'm nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
[on why he hasn't made a movie since Horrible Bosses (2011)] Unless it's Martin Scorsese, and it's a really significant role, fuck off. I'm not playing someone's brother. I'm not playing the station manager. I'm not playing the FCC chairman.
I was in a piano bar. Some guy was absolutely convinced that I was that musician . . . what's his name? The guy in Genesis? Phil Collins! To the point that I even put on a British accent and signed a napkin as him.
I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'
I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.
People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
We're all victims of our own hubris at times.
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching Avatar (2009) on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching Game of Thrones (2011) on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
I don't watch rugby.
In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
Life's all about perceptions.
No matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. But in a play, I can be better next Tuesday. That's the thrill of it.
My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.
Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.
At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.
Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.
I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?
I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.
You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.
I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as House of Cards (2013). It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.

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