Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, singer and comedian who has resided in the United Kingdom since 2003. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects, and an Academy Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 July 1959
CitySouth Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
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.
Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Over the years, I've spent a lot of time in Washington. It's a great theater town.
This is the high point of my day, ... This movie is about how any single act by any single person put out of context is damnable.
Arthur Miller had hoped it would premiere in London and was so pleased the possibility was in the air that it would come to the Old Vic because he loved this theater. We want to see that particular dream of Miller's come true.
The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.
I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.