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Who is Kevin Spacey?

by Ratan Srivastava
Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler is indeed an actor, producer, as well as a singer from the United States. During the 1980s, he started his career as just a stage actor, eventually landing smaller roles in cinema and television. Mike Nichols’ Heartburn (1986), as well as Working Girl (1987), were Spacey’s debut feature roles (1988).

 Inside the 1990s, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role inside the neo-noir criminal thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), as well as an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role within midlife crisis drama American Beauty (1999). Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Swimming with Sharks (1994), Seven (1995), L.A. Confidential (1997), Pay It Forward (2000), K-PAX (2001), the musical biopic Beyond the Sea (2004), the superhero movie Superman Returns (2006), as well as the action movie Baby Driver are among his many notable roles.

In 1986, Kevin Spacey co-starred with Jack Lemmon inside the Broadway production of Long Day’s Journey into Night. He earned a Tony Award for his performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991. In 1999, he received his second Tony Award nomination for his performance in The Iceman Cometh. From 2004 to mid-2015, he served as the creative director of such Old Vic theatre in London. He presented the 71st Tony Awards in 2017. Spacey starred as Frank Underwood inside the Netflix political drama series House of Cards from 2013 to 2017, earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by such a Male Actor in a Drama Series, as well as five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Anthony Rapp, an actor, accused Kevin Spacey of making an offensive move towards him when he was 14 years old in 1986. Several men said Spacey had made unwelcome approaches, as well as sexually harassed as well as abused them. Spacey’s movie Gore was cancelled by Netflix, and he has been removed from the final season of House of Cards. In Ridley Scott’s movie All the Money in the World (2017), his performance as J. Paul Getty was reshot with Christopher Plummer in his stead. Spacey starred inside the 2018 movie Billionaire Boys Club, which had been finished even before claims were made public and was released with his character intact.

Spacey’s movie, television, video game, as well as stage career spans thirty years. After modest roles in Mike Nichols’ movies Heartburn (1986) and Working Girl (1988), he began his cinematic career in the late 1980s.

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