Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler KBE is an American actor, producer, and singer. He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. In 2017, he hosted the 71st Tony Awards. In October 2017, Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Other men alleged that Spacey had made unwanted advances and had sexually harassed them as well.

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Summary Kevin SpaceyKevin Spacey Fowler KBE is an American actor, producer, and singer. He was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. In 2017, he hosted the 71st Tony Awards. In October 2017, Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of making a sexual advance toward him in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Other men alleged that Spacey had made unwanted advances and had sexually harassed them as well. Netflix cut ties with Spacey, shelving his film Gore and removing him from the last season of House of Cards. Spacey’s role as J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott’s film All the Money in the World was reshot with Christopher Plummer in his place. In 2018, Billionaire Boys Club was released with SpaceY’s role unchanged. He started using his middle name, which is also his paternal grandmother’s maiden name, because his father was sexually and physically abusive. He has an older brother, Randy Fowler, who is a limousine driver and Rod Stewart impersonator in Boise, Idaho, and a sister, Julie Ann Fowler Keir, an office worker. He attended Northridge Military Academy, Canoga Park High School in the 10th and 11th grades. He graduated co-valedictorian of the class of 1977 of Chatsworth High School. He studied drama at the Juilliard School in New York City, as a member of Group 12, where he studied drama with teacher Marian Seldes between 1979 and 1981.

His first professional stage appearance was as a spear carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry VI, Part 1 in 1981. In 1986, he was cast alongside Jack Lemmon in Long Day’s Journey into Night. In 1991, he won a Tony Award in 1991 for his role in Lost in Yonkers. He continued to act in theatre receiving his second Tony Award nomination for The Iceman Cometh in 1999. In 1984, Spacey appeared in a production of David Rabepelli’s The Molière, in which he rotated through each of the male parts alongside Anton Chelyburly, David Strathairn and David Colleen Dewhurst. He would become a mentor to Lemmon, who would become his mentor and mentor to Spacey. He appeared in Glengarry Glen Ross, the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks, the psychological thriller Seven, the neo-noir crime film L. A. Confidential, the drama Pay It Forward and the musical biopic Beyond the Sea. He starred in The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp, with Winningham as Maria vonTrapp. He also appeared in Jonathan Bethel’s Tyrone Miller’s The eldest son, in Jonathan O’Neill’s The Tyrone of Tyrone. He won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series as well as five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations.