Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (South Orange, New Jersey, July 26, 1959), known as Kevin Spacey, is an actor, director, producer, screenwriter and singer. US. He began his acting career during the 1980s with supporting roles in film and television. He garnered critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), and the Oscar for Best Actor for the drama American Beauty (1999).

Biography

He is the youngest brother of the three children of a marriage made up of a technical editor father and a secretary mother. The father's work motivated the family to move several times, living in different locations in the country. They ended up settling in California. His parents sent him to a boarding school run by the military, from where he was expelled after a few months. He then entered a school in the San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles. There, Spacey found himself at ease and began participating in the school's amateur drama.

After finishing school, and after a brief stay at an acting school in Los Angeles, she moved to New York and began studying acting at the prestigious Juilliard School. At the age of two, he was so eager to perform that he dropped out of school before graduating and joined the New York Shakespeare Festival. Ultimately, he settled in Los Angeles.

In 1981, he made his first stage appearance, playing a messenger in Shakespeare's Henry VI. Next, he acted in The Spectres, in a drama by Henrik Ibsen on Broadway, which would be followed by The Misanthrope (1984), by Molière, and Long Journey to the night (1986), by Eugene O'Neill. She realized her path lay in movies, but she continued to act regularly on stage, winning a 1991 Tony Award, the stage equivalent of an Oscar, for her performance in Lost in Yonkers, by Neil Simon.^{[citation needed]}

He got his start in film in the mid-1980s, with supporting roles in hit films such as Run Out Of Cake (with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep) and Guns of Guns. woman (with Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith). In 1992, she participated in Glengarry Glen Ross , with a cast of illustrious veterans: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris. But his consecration as a star was with the role of Verbal Kint in the film The Usual Suspects , with which he won his first Oscar for best supporting actor. Also noteworthy is his role in the thriller Seven , along with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. ^{[citation needed ]}

He has won two Oscars, one for Best Supporting Actor and the other for Best Lead Actor, the latter for American Beauty, in 1999. Recently, he has been appointed Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theater in London, one of the most prestigious theaters in the English language. There he runs a new theater company, which plays for eight months of the year, and of which Spacey is also an actor, as well as a director. Among other works, he premiered in London Cloaca, by playwright Maria Goos. He was appointed a Commander (2010) and a Knight Commander (2015) of the Order of the British Empire. One of his last movies was 21 Blackjack, where he played Professor Micky Rosa, in 2008. ^{[citation needed ]}

Kevin Spacey's Star on Hollywood Fame Walk

Filmography

Kevin Spacey at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.

• The cake is over. (1986)
• Wiseguy - Series (1987)
• The Murder of Mary Phagan - Miniserie (1988)
• Rocket Gibraltar (1988)
• Women ' s weapons (1988)
• Don't yell at me, I don't see you. (1989)
• My father (1989)
• Under another banner (1990)
• Henry and June (1990)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Double couples (1992)
• This is not a kidnapping. (1994)
• Swimming with Sharks (1994)
• Iron Will (1994)
• Regular suspects (1995)
• Seven (1995)
• Outbreak (1995)
• A Time to Kill (film) (1996)
• Looking for Richard (1996)
• Midnight in the garden of good and evil (1997)
• L. A. Confidential (1997)
• A Bug's Life (1998)
• The Negotiator (1998)
• Hurlyburly (1998)
• American Beauty (1999)
• The Key of Success (2000)
• Chain of favors (2000)
• Criminal and decent (2000)
• The fat fish (2000)
• K-Pax (2001)
• Tipping Corps (2001)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002; cameo)
• The Life of David Gale (2003)
• The World of Leland (2004)
• Beyond the Sea (2004)
• City without law (2005)
• Superman Returns (2006)
• Fred Claus (2007)
• 21 blackjack (2008)
• Account (2008)
• Shrink (2009)
• Moon (2009)
• Casino Jack (2010)
• Father of Invention (2010)
• The social network (2010; producer)
• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2010)
• Horrible Bosses (2011)
• Margin Call (2011)
• House of Cards (2013-2017)
• Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)
• Nine Lives (2016)
• Elvis & Nixon (2016)
• Rebel between the rye (2017)
• Baby Driver (2017)
• All the Money in the World (2017)
• Billionaire Boys Club (2018)

Theater (Broadway)

• Ghosts1982
• Hurlyburly1984
• Long Day's Journey Into Night1986
• Lost in Yonkers1991
• The Iceman Cometh1999
• A Moon for the Misbegotten2007

Video games

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, (2014; character)

Awards and nominations

Oscar Awards

Golden Globe Awards

BAFTA Awards

Awards of the Union of Actors

Tony Awards

Complaints of sexual abuse

On October 30, 2017, in the context of the abuse scandal against producer Harvey Weinstein, fellow actor Anthony Rapp declared that in 1986, he had been abused, that is, sexually harassed by Spacey during a party held at his residence when Rapp was 14 years old. In response to these accusations, Spacey claimed that he had no recollection of behaving inappropriately and apologized if he had. In the same statement, Kevin Spacey publicly declared his homosexuality.Shortly after, he received multiple complaints of sexual abuse and rape both in the United States and in England.

From Rapp's statements, new similar accusations arose, such as that of Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who denounced that both he and other young actors had been harassed by Spacey when he was artistic director of the Old Vic Theater in London. In similar terms, several employees and former employees of the Netflix series House of Cards, in which Spacey starred and of which he was executive producer, point to him for crimes of the same nature. Harry Dreyfuss, son of actor Richard Dreyfuss, has also accused Spacey of groping him when he was 18 years old and in front of his father, who was unaware of what was happening. On November 3, 2017, Netflix announced that it was canceling all his commitments and projects with Spacey. Spacey announced his admission to The Meadows clinic in Arizona (USA) to undergo treatment for his addiction to sex. Due to this scandal, he was dropped from the cast of the movie All the Money in the World and was replaced by veteran actor Christopher Plummer.

On December 24, 2018, Spacey posted a video to his YouTube channel playing the character of Frank Underwood, his character from the series "House of Cards" who defends his innocence. Several actors criticized and ridiculed the video, including Patricia Arquette, Ellen Barkin, Jon Favreau, and Rob Lowe. Spacey appeared in the 2018 film Billionaire Boys Club (which had been completed before the accusations), which was released with no changes to his role.

In 2019 there was a sexual assault lawsuit filed by an unnamed masseur who died before trial. There was another sexual assault claim by Ari Behn, a Norwegian author and ex-husband of Princess Martha Louise of Norway, but in this case the complainant died by committing suicide before trial. Spacey was denounced by several men in England.

Trials in the United States and the United Kingdom

The legal battle in the United States against the actor began on January 7, 2019 over the accusation against Spacey for an alleged sexual assault in 2016 on an 18-year-old boy in a bar in Nantucket (Massachusetts), in a court of that locality. The actor is also being investigated in Los Angeles and in the United Kingdom for a dozen cases of sexual assault.

In his complaint, the young man admitted that he himself lied about his age, assuring that he was 23 years old. The young man posted a recording of part of the alleged sexual contact on the Snapchat social network and sent his girlfriend a video, which was later verified by the authorities. When Spacey's defense said he needed the complainant's phone to retrieve certain messages from deleted texts that would benefit the actor, the complainant denied having deleted anything. When Spacey's lawyer asked him if he was aware that erasing evidence is a crime, the young man invoked the fifth amendment, which exempts him from testifying against oneself. From that moment on, the complainant's testimony was dismissed by the judge and the accusation was filed. At the same time, the complainant withdrew a civil lawsuit that he had filed against the plaintiff for the same events.

In 2022, he was charged by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service with five counts of rape and sexual assault that occurred in London and Gloucestershire, England, following a London Metropolitan Police review of evidence, for allegations dating from 2005 to 2013. Kevin Spacey says he would voluntarily appear in the UK to face sexual assault charges.

In June 2022, in the UK, Spacey was granted unconditional bail after appearing in a London court on four counts of sexually assaulting three men. In addition, she faced a fifth count of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without his consent.

In October 2022, in the United States, Kevin Spacey was found not guilty of abusing Anthony Rapp.

In November 2022, the actor was charged with a further seven sexual offences, the UK Public Prosecutor's Office announced.

Political views and activism

Spacey speaking during the 2010 Clinton Global Citizen Awards.

Spacey's political views have been described as leaning to the left and reflect some of those held by his fictional character in 'House of Cards'. He is a Democrat and a friend of President Bill Clinton, having known to Clinton before his presidency began. Spacey once described Clinton as "one of the brightest lights" In the political process, she also made a cameo in the short film "President Clinton: Final Days," a light-hearted political satire produced by the Clinton administration for the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Spacey met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in September 2007, but never spoke to the press about their meeting. During the trip, he donated money to the Venezuelan film studio Villa del Cine. In March 2011, following Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown on the Belarusian democracy movement, Spacey joined Jude Law in a London street protest against the Lukashenko regime.

Personal life

The actor came out as gay at the age of 58. During the trial conducted against him by actor Anthony Rapp, Spacey admitted that it was difficult for him to admit his sexuality due to constant pressure from his father, who was a white supremacist.