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Kevin Spacey Wiki Biography

Kevin Spacey Fowler was born on 26 July 1959, in Orange, New Jersey USA, of Swedish, English and Welsh descent, and is one of the most successful modern actors, comedians, producers, film directors and writers, until recently perhaps most famous for acting in such movies as “Superman Returns”, “The Usual Suspects”, and “L.A. Confidential”. Kevin is currently starring in the television show entitled “House of Cards”, which has become famous not only in the US but in other countries as well, however, recent accusations of sexual harassment are putting a cloud over his career.

So just how rich is Kevin Spacey, as of late 2017? It is estimated by authoritative sources that Kevin’s net worth is over $110 million, gained during his many years of acting on television and in movies since the 1980s, which have brought him worldwide success.

When Kevin was still attending school, he starred in the play called “The Sound of Music”. Maybe after this performance he felt some kind of passion for acting, as after finishing school, Spacey tried to become a comedian, and also chose to study drama at New York’s Juilliard School.

At the beginning of his acting career, Kevin appeared in various stage plays, gaining more experience and some self-esteem. In 1988 Kevin acted in his first television shows – “The Murder of Mary Phagan” then in “Wiseguy”, which made him more recognizable and allowed him to become known among directors. Soon he started receiving more  invitations to act in movies, including “Seven”, “Glengary Glen Ross”, “Albino Alligator”, “Beyond the Sea” among others. All these movies added to Kevin’s net worth, before in 2011, he received one of his main roles in the television show, “House of Cards”. While making this show, he has had an opportunity to work with such actors as Kate Mara, Robin Wright, Sakina Jaffrey, Michel Gill, Corey Stoll and others. The show became a huge success, and certainly influenced the growth of Kevin’s net worth, however, recently he has also been accused of sexual harassment, which looks set to cloud his reputation, and filming of the series has been suspended.

Concurrently, in 2016 Spacey starred as President Richard Nixon in “Elvis & Nixon”, a comedy-drama film based on the meeting between Nixon and singer Elvis Presley – played by Michael Shannon – in 1970, when Presley apparently requested that Nixon appoint him as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. He then starred in “Nine Lives”, a comedy film portraying a man trapped in the body of a cat.

During his career, Kevin Spacey has now appeared in over 60 movies, and more than 10 TV shows and series. He has been nominated for and has won various awards, including Academy, Primetime Emmy, Chicago Film Critics Association, Empire and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards among others, which would seem proof of his talent and hard work, and justify his net worth.

To talk about Kevin’s personal life, it can be said that he has not been very open about his relationships; he was reputed to have dated actresses Helen Hunt and Jennifer Jason Leigh as well as Dianne Dreyer, and denied being gay, but has finally admitted that fact following the recent accusations. Further developments are awaited with interest.

Meantime, he resides in London, UK, and continues as patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity enabling British school children to perform Shakespeare’s plays in professional theatres. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

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1. Deadpan delivery
2. Distinctive clipped manner of speaking
3. Often plays cold-blooded and sadistic characters
4. Often plays deceptively intelligent and ruthless men
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Kevin Spacey Quotes

• My interest is not to repeat myself. There’s a danger in this business. You get known for something. Then people who make movies want you to do it again and again in their movie, except their movie isn’t a good one. So I resist doing the same character. American Beauty and Negotiator were different from each other and completely different from any film or genre I’ve done. They were good actor’s pieces. For Negotiator, I also thought it would be really fun to see what Sam Jackson and I could do with the story.
• I was in a piano bar. Some guy was absolutely convinced that I was that musician…what’s his name? The guy in Genesis? Phil Collins! To the point that I even put on a British accent and signed a napkin as him.
• I am one of these actors where I believe very strongly that if you want to get a part, you have to do anything within reason to get that part. I admire Woody Allen so much. I was at a point where every time he announces a new movie, I never get an audition and nobody ever calls me to come in. I was like, “You know what? I am going to just write Woody Allen.” So, I introduced myself and sent him a Netflix subscription and said “I don’t know if you’ve seen my work, but you might want to watch this series.” He wrote me back a warm and wonderful letter, and thanked me for the Netflix. He said he’d seen me play lots of different roles and said he absolutely would consider me in a film.
• [on Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)] I think it is a little bit crazier. I’m very glad that almost everybody is back for it and I so love working with Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman and Charlie Day because being opposite them in a scene when they’re riffing and they’re improv-ing and they’re trying different ways to do scenes, it is the hardest thing in the world not to absolutely lose your cookies. We spend most of our time laughing and any time somebody wants to pay me to come and laugh all day long, I’m there.
• I look at the last 10 years, where I’ve done a play every year… and I’d like to think that this decade has made me a better actor. All that work has prepared me to do the best work that I can do, and I’m pretty convinced that if I hadn’t gone and done this, I wouldn’t have been prepared for a thing like ‘House of Cards.’ [2014]
• [on the difference between working in film and on stage] Theater is my primary allegiance. And I’ve not only had such an extraordinary life in the theater, but I’ve also been given the incredible opportunity to have a life in film… But I always try to remember this: no matter how good an actor might be in movie, they’ll never be any better in that movie. That’s it. But in theater, we can be better next Tuesday than we were this Tuesday, we can be better infinitely. It is why we call the film ‘Now.’ It’s not just the first word of the first sentence of the play, it is what theater is, it’s NOW, it’s at this moment, it’s here and it’s gone. And to people who think it’s the same thing every night, I always make the analogy that it’s like tennis. You can go out and play tennis eight times a week. And it’s always the same rules, but it’s always a different game, every single time. That’s what it’s like, when we go on stage every night. [2014]
• The theater has always been dying. They’ve been saying that for centuries. And you know what, it just keeps limping along and doing alright. By the way, the single biggest money-making franchise in the United States is Broadway…. I think, and this is my honest opinion, as long as people want to tell stories, and as long as people want to hear those stories, the theater will be alive and well for all time. [2014]
• [on why he hasn’t made a movie since Horrible Bosses (2011)] Unless it’s Martin Scorsese, and it’s a really significant role, fuck off. I’m not playing someone’s brother. I’m not playing the station manager. I’m not playing the FCC chairman.
• I’m used to people thinking I’m nuts. And you know what? I kind of love it.
• The camera doesn’t know if it’s a TV camera, or a streaming camera, or. a movie camera – it is just a camera. It doesn’t change our process in terms of how we work. What did change our process was that we weren’t obligated or asked by Netflix to do a pilot. We were just able to get on with the story-telling from the get-go.
• [on Netflix airing all 13 episodes of House of Cards (2013) at once] I think in some ways maybe this proves, with the way in which an audience has been able to find the series, that we have learned the lesson the music industry didn’t learn. Give people what they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they will buy it and they won’t steal it.
• [on the current state of film versus TV] I was lucky to get into film at a time (the 1990s) that was very interesting for drama. But if you look now, the focus is not on the same kind of films that were made in the 90s. When I look now, the most interesting plots, the most interesting characters, they are on TV.
• [on House of Cards (2013) and Netflix] This is a really new perspective… to drop them [release the episodes] all at once but I think that’s how we watch TV now. Because this is the first time they [Netflix] are doing drama, they don’t even have the offices to do this compared with the other networks. I feel sorry for the makers of the third series they do – when they have the offices (and can interfere).
• I’m aware that, from the outside, this looks like I’ve got quite an ego.
• I’m lucky if I find one movie a year that’s worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
• [on Albino Alligator (1996)] Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
• [on Se7en (1995)] I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don’t win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie….It’s a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it’s a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you’re told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face. It’s so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we’re wrong, and often we’re dead wrong, we miss the truth.
• [on undertaking dark roles]: They’re great parts! These are the parts audiences love to hate! First of all, you don’t play a villain. You play a person who is doing things they think are quite justified. It’s not one thing that makes a person do something. It’s a lifetime of experience and motivations and relationships and terrors. We too often, conveniently and cutely, try to label everything so that we understand it, and there are things we’ll never f—ing understand. ever. All we can do is just watch them.
• (On traveling to Africa with Bill Clinton in 2002) He invited me. It was an opportunity to go to Africa, which I’d always been fascinated by. He’s the first president to go there while he was in office. He went to raise money and awareness for a number of issues: AIDS, debt, economic relief. We went to seven different countries in 10 days-Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, and then to the town of Johannesburg for an event with Mandela. It was just a remarkable experience.
• I love living in London. I can say with all sincerity that London is my home. This is my seventh year in London, fifth season at the Old Vic. I will never renounce being American but there is a part of me that is British now. I may go for dual citizenship, who knows?
• I was doing a play called ‘The Iceman Cometh’ at the Old Vic, and in the middle of the quietest moment of the second act, a phone started ringing. I felt the anger starting in my toes and it came right out of my mouth, as loud as anything else I’d said on the stage, I looked out to the audience and said, ‘Tell them we’re busy!’ And it got a round of applause.
• I don’t care about my personal acting career any more. I’m done with it. After 10 years of making movies and going better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had? Am I just going to keep making movie after movie and be concerned with all of that ‘Are you up, are you down, are you hot, are you not?’, and I don’t really care. What I care about is working with people, what I care about is the remarkable experience of being able to be a part of bringing people together.
• [As Artistic Director of London’s Old Vic Theatre] I’m living my dream. I’m doing it the way I want to do it. I’m working with an extraordinary group of people at that theatre who are dedicated and who really have in so many ways helped us discover what our ethos is.
• John Normington was a remarkable talent and all of us at the Old Vic are deeply saddened by his passing. We were fortunate to have John in the company of The Entertainer, where so many audiences had the chance to see his extraordinary performance as Archie Rice’s father. John brought a wide range of experience to his characters throughout a diverse and successful career that touched the lives of all who worked with him. We were honored to have enjoyed John’s company for as long as we had him. His spirit and influence remained throughout and now that same spirit joins the other great actors who have played the Old Vic stage, where he will always be remembered with admiration and affection. They don’t make them like him anymore. We send our love and condolences to John’s partner, family and friends.
• “As far as I’m concerned, when I looked at what happened in my career in 2000 – after American Beauty (1999) – I thought it couldn’t get much better. What was I going to spend the rest of my life doing? Trying to top myself? Trying to stay hot, trying to make sure I was in the right movies? I don’t give a s**t. I’m trying to do something with my success which is bigger than myself. I’m no longer interested in my personal career. I am interested in the impact I can have on a lot of other people’s careers and on audiences”.
• There is no prize, out there. The only prize is, this one, and what you feel and what you want to accomplish. And if you can, as you start out, these what could be lean years or could be fat years. I feel that I very often watch a lot of young people sort of meander around without any idea about why they’re doing what they’re doing. I mean to want and to be ambitious and to want to be successful, is not enough. That’s just desire. To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve… If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there’s nothing you can’t achieve.
• If you look at how most artistic beginnings have been greeted in this country [UK], I’m in very good company. I know I’m a bigger target as long as I’m seen as a Hollywood movie star instead of as an actor of the theater, even an artistic director. They don’t accept that I come in to work here every day, and have done for the last two-and-a-half years, and will continue to do so.
• The movies are not my first priority – the theater is.
• I was beginning to feel I just didn’t want to go through another 10 years of living in hotels, making three or four movies a year. I long for the ritual of theater. I adore it. And I want to do plays that challenge me.
• If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down. as quoted in Woman’s World, 2-22-05 issue.
• “Beyond the Sea (2004) is not a linear story at all. It’s not what people will expect and it’s not a biopic. It’s my statement”.
• Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.
• The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows an audience to come into a movie theatre and believe I am that person.
• My idea of credibility is primarily self-imposed and it all relates to the thing that I’ve been interested in as an actor and a director, which is what are you *willing* to live with as a human being? And there’s things I’m just not willing to live with–and I won’t. And if it means that I stop and find something else in life that interests me or challenges me, so be it.
• Discussing occasional misconceptions by women that he is gay: For them it’s a challenge. They want to be the one to turn me around. I let them.
• On American Beauty (1999): “I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it”.
• [on winning the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in American Beauty (1999))] This has definitely been the highlight of my day.

Kevin Spacey Important Facts

• $4,500,000
• He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performance Arts category.
• Shares the role of Lex Luthor with Gene Hackman, Michael Rosenbaum and Jesse Eisenberg. He and Rosenbaum appeared together in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) for director Clint Eastwood, who also directed Hackman in Unforgiven (1992) and Absolute Power (1997). Spacey and Hackman have also both won an Oscar for Best Actor and Supporting Actor. After winning Best Supporting Actor, they each appeared in a John Grisham adaptation: The Firm (1993) and A Time to Kill (1996). Spacey also produced The Social Network (2010), which Eisenberg appeared in.
• He was awarded an honorary CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to drama. He was awarded an honorary Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to drama and theatre especially as artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London, England.
• He was considered for the role of Silva in Skyfall (2012).
• Was the first choice to play President Whitmore in Independence Day (1996), but an executive at 20th Century Fox refused to let producer Dean Devlin cast him in the role, feeling he didn’t have the potential to be a big-time movie star. Ten months later, Spacey won his first Academy Award. Independence Day was about aliens attacking Earth. He would later play an alien visiting the Earth in K-PAX (2001).
• He grew up in California.
• As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Working Girl (1988), L.A. Confidential (1997) and American Beauty (1999), with the latter winning in the category.
• Being Artistic Director of the Old Vic, he currently plays “A Moon for the Misbegotten”, by Eugene O’Neill, opposite Eve Best. [September 2006]
• Performing opposite Jeff Goldblum in “Speed-The-Plow” at The Old Vic, London. [February 2008]
• Filming for Superman Returns (2006). [July 2005]
• His film, Beyond the Sea (2004), will be showing at the Toronto Film Festival, Sept 2004. [August 2004]
• London, England: Starring in “Richard III” at the Old Vic Theatre [July 2011]
• Slated to teach the theater course at Oxford University in the fall [June 2008]
• Currently playing the lead in Richard II at The Old Vic. [September 2005]
• Epidavros, Greece: Playing Richard 111 as part of The Bridge Project [August 2011]
• Filming Casino Jack (2010) in Toronto, Canada. [June 2009]
• San Francisco, United States: Playing Richard 111 as part of The Bridge Project [October 2011]
• Currently starring in “The Philadelphia Story” at London’s Old Vic Theatre [May 2005]
• Announced on Live with Kelly and Michael (1988) that he will be directing and starring in a biopic about singer Bobby Darin. He will also be singing. [February 2003]
• Starring in ‘National Anthems’ at the Old Vic, where he is also Artistic Director [February 2005]
• Was in Rolling Stone’s “Hot” issue as “Hot Character” twice, in 1988 and 1995.
• He and producer Dean Devlin have been friends since high school.
• Credits Mel Profitt on Wiseguy (1987) as being his “breakthrough role.”.
• After he dropped out of Julliard, he worked as a shoe salesman and a super in his apartment building.
• Kevin’s maternal grandfather was the son of Swedish parents. Kevin’s other ancestry includes English and Welsh.
• A guest at Simon Cowell’s 50th birthday party.
• Voted Man of the Year in Theater by GQ Magazine in 1999.
• In a Butterfields LA auction on September 10, 2001, the Oscar won by George Stoll for Anchors Aweigh (1945) was being auctioned for $157,000. Kevin bought it and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• In Total Film’s Top 100 Greatest Movie Villains, he ranked 65 for his role as Buddy Ackerman in Swimming with Sharks (1994). His Keiser Soze in The Usual Suspects (1995) was ranked 52 and his John Doe in Se7en (1995) was ranked 13.
• In Total Film’s The 150 Greatest Movie Performances of All Time, his Roger “Verbal” Kint in The Usual Suspects (1995) was rated 39th.
• Was the first Hollywood star to be cast as a lead actor in a fully Chinese-financed film: Dayyan Eng’s Inseparable (2011).
• Divides his time between London, England and Los Angeles, California.
• In November of 2010, Prince Charles presented Kevin Spacey with an award for his services to drama. He was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition for his work at London’s Old Vic theatre, where he has been Artistic Director since 2003.
• Lives in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York.
• Thanked by the band Matchbox 20 in the liner notes of their album “Yourself or Someone Like You”.
• Has never married or had children.
• Visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Carnival. [February 2008]
• In 1970 he attended Northridge Military Academy in Northridge (Los Angeles) California, with producer/director Thomas R. Bond II.
• Co-hosted the Nobel Peace Prize concert for Al Gore because Tommy Lee Jones had to drop out at the last minute.
• To pay his way through Juilliard, he worked in Juilliard’s admin office.
• Ranked #10 in the 2008 Telegraph’s list “the 100 most powerful people in British culture”.
• As of 2013, he is only one of 6 actors who have a 2-0 winning record when nominated for an acting Oscar. The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Helen Hayes for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) and Airport (1970); Hilary Swank for Boys Don’t Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004); and Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012)..
• His older brother, Randy, makes a living as a Rod Stewart impersonator.
• Huge fan of Professional Wrestling.
• Has a black mongrel terrier called Mini. “She is named after the car.”.
• April 2000: The Los Angeles Times reported that he was being considered for the role of Inspector Clouseau, in The Pink Panther (2006). The following month, Spacey denied he was in negotiations for the role of Clouseau. He said he’d only had two conversations with MGM about the role, but that since the announcement, claiming he was in the running for it, he’d had to answer 8000 Pink Panther questions.
• As part of his research for the role of Bobby Darin in the film Beyond the Sea (2004), Spacey watched several of Michael Bublé’s performances.
• Character Deadshot from Justice League voice and personality were based on Kevin Spacey.
• Has twice shaved his head completely bald to play the villain in movies. He did it to play “John Doe” in Se7en (1995) and “Lex Luthor” in Superman Returns (2006).
• Parodied a mad bald man, “Dr. Evil”, in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) while portraying a sinister bald man, “Lex Luthor”, in Superman Returns (2006).
• His performance as “Verbal Kint” in The Usual Suspects (1995) is ranked #100 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• His guest appearance in Crime Story: The Senator, the Movie Star, and the Mob (1987) was his first major television appearance.
• Father Thomas Fowler died in 1992. Mother Kathleen died of a brain tumor in 2003.
• Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, and Jason Robards are his idols.
• Has said that working with Jack Lemmon on a stage production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1987) (the TV edition of the stage production) changed his life. Previously possessive of a reckless ambition, he said he was amazed at how Lemmon was both a great actor and generous to a fault as both a co-star and a human being, teaching him that being a good person and a good actor were not mutually exclusive. He still considers Lemmon his role model.
• His Oscar-winning performance as Verbal Kint from his film The Usual Suspects (1995) (1995) was ranked #48 on the American Film Institute’s Villains list in their compilation of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
• 17 April 2004, London – suffered a head injury after tripping over his dog while pursuing a young man who stole his cell phone. Initially, he reported that the injury was the result of a mugging, but later admitted the truth and stated that he was embarrassed by the situation.
• He was awarded the 1998 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Iceman Cometh.
• He was awarded the 1998 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Actor for his performance in The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida and at the Old Vic Theatres.
• When they were both performing on Broadway in 1998, he would often meet Dame Judi Dench during intermission or between shows.
• He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1999 (1998 season) for Best Actor for his performance in The Iceman Cometh.
• His father was a technical writer.
• Has an older brother, Randall, and an older sister, Julie Ann. Has a nephew and a niece.
• Attended the UK Labour Party Conference with former US President Bill Clinton. [October 2002]
• Named as Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre in London, England, UK.
• Kevin Spacey’s production company, TriggerStreet, is named after an actual street in the San Fernando Valley where Spacey grew up and dreamed of building a theatre and making movies. The late cowboy star Roy Rogers once owned a ranch on the land and named the street for his horse Trigger.
• Dedicated the Oscar that he won for Best Actor in American Beauty (1999) to Jack Lemmon. Spacey has said in interviews that he based his performance of Lester Burnham on Lemmon’s C.C. Baxter in The Apartment (1960). Appropriately, there is also a family connection between those films: Lemmon’s love interest was Shirley MacLaine, whose sister-in-law, Annette Bening played Spacey’s wife.
• Owns a Mini-Cooper.
• Supporter of London’s Old Vic Theater, co-hosting fund-raiser for it in NYC, April 2002.
• During his appearance on BBC TV’s Parkinson (1971) in March 2002, he did impressions of Jack Lemmon, Bill Clinton, Judi Dench, Katharine Hepburn, Al Pacino, Ian McKellen, Peter O’Toole and James Stewart.
• Was the first Academy Award winner to be on The Daily Show (1996).
• His Labrador dog’s name is Legacy. [2001]
• Won Broadway’s 1991 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for “Lost in Yonkers.” He was also nominated in 1999 as Best Actor (Play) for a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”
• Was expelled from Northridge Military Academy (in California) for throwing a tire at a classmate.
• Studied drama at Juilliard School for 2 years.
• On People’s (USA) ‘Best-Dressed’ list. [September 2000]
• Listed as one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Best Actors [1998]
• Appears twice in Total Film’s (U.K) ’10 Greatest Villains of All Time’ poll. His “John Doe”, from Se7en (1995) came in at number 10, while his character in The Usual Suspects (1995) was voted fifth. [February 2001]
• Was the first choice to play the role of Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999).
• Kevin burnt his sister’s tree house down when they were children. This caused his parents to opt for military school, which Kevin promptly left for Chatsworth.
• Voted greatest actor of the decade by Empire Magazine. [May 1999]
• The use of the name Spacey, while rumored as a combination of Spencer Tracy’s names, is actually his mother’s maiden name.
• Went to Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles with Mare Winningham. During their senior year, Kevin played von Trapp and Mare played Maria in a school production of The Sound of Music. Upon hearing of their Oscar nominations in 1996, Winningham sent a telegram to Spacey saying: “Captain von Trapp – congratulations on your nomination – Maria.”
• Ranked #56 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]
• Was paid 225 pounds per week for appearing in the play “The Iceman Cometh” at the Almeida Theatre in London (1998).
• Was Co-Valedictorian of his high school class at Chatsworth HS (1977).
• His mother was his date for the Oscars the night he won.
• Also attended Chatsworth High School with Val Kilmer.
• Auditioned for The Gong Show (1976) in 1978 and was rejected.

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