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Since childhood the theatre has been KEVIN SPACEY’s (Lex Luthor) primary allegiance with roles beginning in junior high school and leading to Broadway. He trained at the Juilliard School of Drama and made his NY stage debut in Joseph Papp’s Central Park production of Henry IV, Part I. His breakthrough came when director Jonathan Miller cast Spacey as the ne’er-dowell son, Jamie Tyrone in the 1986 Broadway production of Eugene O’Neil’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, starring Jack Lemmon, which also played the Haymarket Theatre in London. Other favorite roles include Treplov in The Seagull (Kennedy Center); Ben in National Anthems (Long Wharf/Old Vic); Paul in Barrie Keefe’s Barbarians (SoHo Rep); Athol Fugard’s Playland (Manhattan Theatre Club). For his performance as Uncle Louie in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, he won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1991.
His close association with Jack Lemmon continued as they shared the screen in George Steven’s Jr.’s The Murder of Mary Phagan, Gary David Goldberg’s Dad and David Mamet’s screen adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross, co-starring Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Alec Baldwin. Ten years ago cinema audiences discovered Spacey in three distinct performances: as Buddy Ackerman in George Huang’s Swimming With Sharks; Verbal Kint in Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects; and John Doe in David Fincher’s Se7en. He has continued to build an impressive body of work with such films as L.A. Confidential, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Negotiator, Hurlyburly, Looking for Richard, The Big Kahuna, K-Pax, The Shipping News, The Life of David Gale and American Beauty. Many of these performances have won him nominations and awards, including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for The Usual Suspects and Best Actor for American Beauty, for which he also received the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy’s BAFTA Award for Best Actor. In 1998 he returned to the stage in Eugene O’Neill’s classic The Iceman Cometh, directed by Howard Davis. The production originated at London’s Almeida Theatre and later transferred to the Old Vic Theatre and onto Broadway, where it played a sold-out acclaimed run. For his performance as Hickey he was nominated for the Tony Award and won the Evening Standard and the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Actor.
His work on television has included seven episodes of the crime-drama series Wiseguy and the film Darrow for PBS. He made his directorial debut with the Miramax film Albino Alligator starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Faye Dunaway and Viggo Mortensen. He most recently directed and starred as Bobby Darin in the film Beyond the Sea opposite Kate Bosworth. His role earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. He was also nominated for a Grammy for the soundtrack. Spacey formed Trigger Street Productions in 1997, which produced The Iceman Cometh as well as the off-Broadway production of Lee Blessing’s Cobb at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Trigger Street’s feature films include The Big Kahuna starring Danny DeVito; The United States of Leland, starring Don Cheadle and Ryan Gosling; and The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang which just won the Slamdance Film Festival and Best Actor and Best Director at the Aspen Comedy Festival.
A new arm of the company, Trigger Street Independent, just produced Bernard and Doris starring Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, and directed by Bob Balaban; and Mr. Gibb with Timothy Daly. This summer director Robert Lukedic will begin production on 21, based on Ben Mezerick’s book Bringing Down The House, the true story of MIT students who learned the art of card counting and took Vegas for millions. Currently they have just wrapped on the comedy-adventure Fanboys. In November 2002, Spacey and business partner Dana Brunetti launched TriggerStreet.com, a web-based filmmaker and screenwriter community; an interactive site for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and unique talent. Budweiser sponsors the site with Real Networks and in just three years the site has achieved over 150,000 active members from around the world, with the top ten finalists in the short film competition having been given screenings at the Tribeca, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals among many others.
Spacey is now serving as the artistic director of The Old Vic Theatre in London, where in the first 18 months of operation this new theatre company has produced Cloaca, which he directed; Ian McKellen starring in the hit Panto Aladdin; Dennis McIntyre’s National Anthems with Mary Stuart Masterson, directed by David Grindley; The Philadelphia Story, with Jennifer Ehle, directed by Jerry Zaks; Richard II, directed by Trevor Nunn; Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, which was a collaboration between British and Iraqi actors and musicians and Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues, with Maximilian Schell and Matthew Modine, directed by Robert Altman. He will next appear at the Old Vic this September in Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, which will reunite him with director Howard Davis and the design team behind The Iceman Cometh.
Filmography: 21 (2008), A Bugs Life, Beyond the Sea, Edison, Fred Claus (2006), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Outbreak, Seven, Superman Returns,
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