biography
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Spacey, Kevin
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stage name of Kevin Spacey Fowler
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pronunciation:
[spaysee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1959– )
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| biography:
| Film and theatre actor, born in South Orange, NJ, USA. He studied drama at the Juilliard School for two years. After various roles on stage and in television in the USA, he moved into films, his early film work including Working Girl (1988), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). During the 1990s The Usual Suspects (1995) and Se7en (1995) catapulted him into international stardom. Later films include LA Confidential (1997), American Beauty (1999, Oscar), The Shipping News (2001), and The Life of David Gale (2002). He is also a well respected theatre actor in both the USA and England, notable roles including those in Lost in Yonkers (1991) and The Iceman Cometh (1998). In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre, London. |
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