Kevin Spacey
A chameleonic actor equally at home on stage or in film either as a hero or a villain, Kevin Spacey first gained notice with several strong stage performances both on and off-Broadway. Performing in stage productions of "Ghosts," "Long Day's Journey into Night" and "Hurlyburly" helped pave the way for a feature film career atop the A-list, though his real on-camera start came with his deliciously eccentric performance as a heroin-addicted millionaire on the cult television series, "Wiseguy" (CBS, 1987-1990). After making the segue into features, Spacey bounced around in supporting roles until he gained widespread recognition for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1992), in which he managed to keep up with heavyweights Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin and his personal idol, Jack Lemmon. But it was his Academy Award-winning performance as the mysterious Verbal Kint in "The Usual Suspects" (1995) that propelled Spacey into the limelight. He made equally impressionable appearances in "L.A. Confidential" (1997) and "Se7en" (1997), cementing his status as a hypnotic performer willing to challenge himself by playing unique characters. Though he slipped a bit with "Pay It Forward" (2000) and "K-PAX" (2001), Spacey remained a vital force in films like "Superman Returns" (2006), while also assuming the role of artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London in 2003. With award-worthy performances in the made-for-HBO movie "Recount" (2008), the feature "Casino Jack" (2010), and an appealingly villainous turn as crooked politician Frank Underwood in the series "House of Cards" (Netflix 2013-18), Spacey only enhanced his stature as one of Hollywood's most diverse and accomplished performers. In October 2017, an accusation by actor Anthony Rapp that Spacey had made sexual advances toward him when he was 14 caused Netflix to stop production on the final season of "House of Cards" during the era of show business self-examination brought on by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. As the allegations against Spacey grew in number, an unsettling portrait of the actor began to emerge, leading not only to his publicist and agents severing ties with him, but to the seemingly unprecedented step of director Ridley Scott removing Spacey from the completed J. Paul Getty biopic "All the Money in the World" (2017), re-filming his scenes with actor Christopher Plummer only weeks before the film was due to be released.
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Kevin Spacey
Filmography
Movies
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Peter Five Eight | Peter (Character) | - | 2024 |
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The Voice (Character), Unknown (Voice) |
- | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Drew God | Detective (Character) | - | 2022 |
7% |
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Billionaire Boys Club | Ron Levin (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gore | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
29% |
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Rebel in the Rye | Whit Burnett (Character) | $376.7K | 2017 |
92% |
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Baby Driver | Doc (Character) | $107.8M | 2017 |
14% |
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Nine Lives | Tom Brand (Character) | $19.6M | 2016 |
76% |
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Elvis & Nixon | Nixon (Character) | $1.0M | 2016 |
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Unity | Narrator | - | 2015 |
36% |
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Horrible Bosses 2 | Dave Harken (Character) | $54.4M | 2014 |
52% |
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NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage |
Unknown (Character), Executive Producer |
$37.2K | 2014 |
93% |
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Captain Phillips | Executive Producer | $107.1M | 2013 |
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The Day Kennedy Died | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
59% |
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Safe | Executive Producer | $17.1M | 2012 |
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Inseparable |
Chuck (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2011 |
87% |
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Shakespeare High | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
87% |
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Margin Call | Sam Rogers (Character) | $5.4M | 2011 |
69% |
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Horrible Bosses | Dave Harken (Character) | $117.5M | 2011 |
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WWE: TLC - Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2009 | Director | - | 2010 |
0% |
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Father of Invention |
Robert Axle (Character), Producer |
- | 2010 |
39% |
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Casino Jack | Jack Abramoff (Character) | $1.0M | 2010 |
96% |
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The Social Network | Executive Producer | $96.9M | 2010 |
51% |
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The Men Who Stare at Goats | Larry Hooper (Character) | $32.4M | 2009 |
27% |
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Shrink |
Dr. Henry Carter (Character), Producer |
$189.3K | 2009 |
90% |
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Moon | Gerty (Voice) | $5.0M | 2009 |
33% |
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Fanboys | Producer | $685.5K | 2009 |
78% |
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Telstar | Major Banks (Character) | - | 2008 |
78% |
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Recount | Ron Klain (Character) | - | 2008 |
36% |
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Micky Rosa (Character), Producer |
$81.2M | 2008 |
46% |
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The Sasquatch Gang | Producer | $9.5K | 2007 |
20% |
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Fred Claus | Clyde (Character) | $72.0M | 2007 |
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Look Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
54% |
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Mini's First Time | Producer | $48.9K | 2006 |
11% |
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Edison | Wallace (Character) | - | 2005 |
43% |
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Beyond the Sea |
Bobby Darin (Character), Director, Writer, Producer |
$6.1M | 2004 |
34% |
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The United States of Leland |
Albert T. Fitzgerald (Character), Producer |
$343.8K | 2003 |
19% |
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The Life of David Gale | David Gale (Character) | $19.6M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure | Narrator | $15.4M | 2001 |
54% |
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The Shipping News | Quoyle (Character) | $11.4M | 2001 |
42% |
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K-PAX | Prot (Character) | $50.3M | 2001 |
39% |
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Pay It Forward | Eugene Simonet (Character) | $33.5M | 2000 |
14% |
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Ordinary Decent Criminal | Michael Lynch (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Interstate 84 | Executive Producer | - | 2000 |
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WWF Judgment Day | Director | - | 2000 |
73% |
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The Big Kahuna |
Larry Mann (Character), Producer |
$3.2M | 1999 |
87% |
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American Beauty | Lester Burnham (Character) | $130.1M | 1999 |
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Forever Hollywood | Self | - | 1999 |
92% |
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A Bug's Life | Hopper (Voice) | $162.8M | 1998 |
58% |
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Hurlyburly | Mickey (Character) | $1.8M | 1998 |
74% |
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The Negotiator | Lt. Chris Sabian (Character) | $44.7M | 1998 |
99% |
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L.A. Confidential | Jack Vincennes (Character) | $64.6M | 1997 |
51% |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Jim Williams (Character) | $25.1M | 1997 |
83% |
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Looking for Richard |
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$1.4M | 1996 |
50% |
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Albino Alligator | Director | $326.3K | 1996 |
67% |
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A Time to Kill | D.A. Rufus Buckley (Character) | $108.7M | 1996 |
83% |
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Seven | John Doe (Character) | $100.1M | 1995 |
59% |
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Outbreak | Maj. Casey Schuler (Character) | $65.9M | 1995 |
87% |
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The Usual Suspects | Roger 'Verbal' Kint (Character) | $22.6M | 1995 |
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Doomsday Gun | Jim Price (Character) | - | 1994 |
76% |
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Swimming With Sharks | Buddy Ackerman (Character) | $34.7K | 1994 |
67% |
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Iron Will | Harry Kingsley (Character) | $20.6M | 1994 |
74% |
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The Ref | Lloyd Chasseur (Character) | $11.3M | 1994 |
23% |
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Consenting Adults | Eddy Otis (Character) | $21.6M | 1992 |
95% |
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Glengarry Glen Ross | John Williamson (Character) | $10.7M | 1992 |
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Darrow | Clarence Darrow (Character) | - | 1991 |
60% |
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Henry & June | Richard Osborn (Character) | $11.0M | 1990 |
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A Show of Force | Frank Curtin (Character) | $73.4K | 1990 |
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When You Remember Me | Wade (Character) | - | 1990 |
50% | No Score Yet | Fall From Grace | Jim Bakker (Character) | - | 1990 |
58% |
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Dad | Mario (Character) | $19.7M | 1989 |
27% |
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil | Kirgo (Character) | $45.4M | 1989 |
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The Murder of Mary Phagan | Wes Brent (Character) | - | 1988 |
83% |
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Working Girl | Bob Speck (Character) | $62.2M | 1988 |
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Rocket Gibraltar | Dwayne Hanson (Character) | $92.5K | 1988 |
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Long Day's Journey into Night | James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jr. (Character) | - | 1987 |
48% |
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Heartburn | Subway Thief (Character) | $24.3M | 1986 |
TV
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77% | 76% | House of Cards |
Francis Underwood (Character), Executive Producer |
2013-2017 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayed | Executive Producer | 2018-2020 |
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Executive Producer, Narrator |
2016 2020 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015-2017 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrated | Self | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2010 2014-2015 |
100% | 78% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2014-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie Rose -- The Week | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2011 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Conan O'Brien | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2001 2004 2006 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1997 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wiseguy | Mel Profitt (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Equalizer | Detective Sgt. Cole (Guest Star) | 1987 |