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
My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.
Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
I sense a little Brian Boitano in there.
People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.
People sometimes have to be reminded, I'm not Frank Underwood. I'm an actor named Kevin Spacey.
People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.
Brett Chase doesn't walk and talk like you,
Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.
I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.