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James Todd Spader is an American television and film actor who began his professional career in 1978. Born on February 7, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts, he is a United States citizen. He received his education at Phillips Academy and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Spader speaks American English and performs on the piano and with his voice.
His notable works include *The Blacklist*, *Boston Legal*, *Avengers: Age of Ultron*, and *The Office*. He has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Spader has two children and has an unmarried partner, Leslie Stefanson. He has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1960-02-07
- Works
- 0
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Film & TV
Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
James Todd Spader (/ˈspeɪdər/ SPAY-dər; born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is known for often portraying eccentric and morally ambiguous characters. He began his career in critically acclaimed independent films before transitioning into television, where he has received acclaim and many awards, including three Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, and…
Known for
- VisionQuest — Ultron2026
- BRATS — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2024
- Avengers: Age of Ultron — Ultron (voice)2015
- Raiders, Raptors and Rebels: Behind the Magic of ILM — Self2015
- The Homesman — Aloysius Duffy2014
- Life Itself — Self - Actor (archive footage)2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014
- The Blacklist — Raymond 'Red' Reddington2013
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 43
- Total plays
- 227
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,879x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,277x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,823x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,710x
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Quotes
- “Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.”
- “The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”
- “I enjoy the most that Alan seems to be the happiest the stranger that it can be. I don't think it ever can be strange enough for him.”
- “I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Todd
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- American English
- Notable work
- The Office
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- James Spader by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- James Spader
- date of birth
- 1960-02-07
- unmarried partner
- Leslie Stefanson
- birth name
- James Todd Spader
- Commons gallery
- James Spader
- name in native language
- James Spader
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- writing language
- American English
- medical condition
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Encyclopedic overview
James Todd Spader (/ˈspeɪdər/ SPAY-dər; born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is known for often portraying morally ambiguous and eccentric characters. His accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Spader began acting in youth-oriented films such as Tuff Turf, The New Kids (both 1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Mannequin (1987). His breakthrough role came in Steven Soderbergh's drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He then starred in films such as White Palace (1990), True Colors (1991), Stargate (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Secretary (2002). Spader took supporting roles in Bob Roberts (1992), Wolf (1994), Lincoln (2012), and The Homesman (2014). He also played the role of Ultron in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
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