KEVIN SPACEY: FROM NEW JERSEY TO HOUSE OF CARDS

Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood in House of Cards

Kevin Spacey Fowler, (born July 26, 1959), better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. 

He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s that culminated in his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects (1995), and an Academy Award for Best Actor for midlife crisis-themed drama American Beauty (1999).

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His other starring roles have included the comedy-drama film Swimming with Sharks (1994), psychological thriller Seven (1995), the neo-noir crime film L.A. Confidential (1997), the drama Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction-mystery film K-PAX (2001), and the role of Lex Luthor in the superhero film Superman Returns (2006).

Kevin Spacey

In Broadway theatre, Spacey won a Tony Award for his role in Lost in Yonkers. Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Spacey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and earned another Tony nomination in 1999 for The Iceman Cometh. 

On March 18, 2011, it was announced that Spacey was cast as Frank Underwood in the Netflix series House of Cards. 

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You have to always be ready, always be alive, 

and always be willing to move in a new direction. 

Kevin Spacey