James Spader Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Spader Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor and

producer. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the

drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), the action science fiction film

Stargate (1994), the controversial psychological thriller Crash

(1996), the erotic romance Secretary (2002) and Steven Spielberg's

Lincoln (2012). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played the

titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), which

he portrayed through voice and motion capture.His television roles

include those of attorney Alan Shore in The Practice (1997â€"2004) and

its spin-off Boston Legal (2004â€"2008) (for which he won three Emmy

Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office

(2005â€"2013). He also stars as high-profile

criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond "Red" Reddington in the NBC

crime drama The Blacklist, (2013â€"present) for which he has earned

two Golden Globe Award nominations.Spader was born in Boston,

Massachusetts, and is the youngest of three children. His parents,

Jean (née Fraser) and Stoddard ("Todd") Greenwood Spader, were both

teachers. Spader grew up in a liberal and progressive home surrounded

by "dominant and influential women...that left a great impression".

During his early education, he attended multiple private schools,

including The Pike School, where his mother taught art, and the Brooks

School in North Andover, Massachusetts, where his father taught. He

later transferred to Phillips Academy, where he befriended former

President's son John F. Kennedy, Jr., before dropping out at the age

of seventeen and moving to New York City to pursue his acting career.

On his way to becoming a full-time actor, Spader undertook jobs such

as bartending, teaching yoga, driving a meat truck, loading railroad

cars, and being a stable boy.Spader's first major film role was in the

film Endless Love (1981), and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf

(1985). He rose to stardom in 1986, when he played the rich, arrogant

playboy Steff in Pretty in Pink. He co-starred in Mannequin (1987) and

the film adaptation of Less Than Zero (1987), in which he played a

drug dealer named Rip. Supporting roles in films such as Baby Boom

(1987) and Wall Street (1987) followed until his breakthrough in Sex,

Lies, and Videotape (1989), in which he played a sexual voyeur who

complicates the lives of three Baton Rouge, Louisiana residents. For

this performance, he received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film

Festival.
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