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Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959), better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor, film director, producer, singer and comedian who has resided in the
since 2003. 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
for the neo-noir crime thriller
(1995), and an
for midlife crisis-themed drama
His other starring roles have included the psychological thriller
(1995), the neo-noir crime film
(1997), the drama
(2000), the science fiction-mystery film
(2001), and the role of
in the superhero film
He was the artistic director of
theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015. Since 2013, Spacey has played
political drama series . For his role as Underwood, he has won a
and two consecutive .
Spacey was born in , to Kathleen Ann (née K December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler (June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992), a
and data consultant. He has two older siblings: a sister, Julie, and a brother, Randy. He has Swedish (from his maternal grandfather), English, and
ancestry. His family relocated to
when Spacey was 4 years old. He attended
, [] (in tenth and eleventh grades), and then
where he graduated
(with ) of his class in 1977.
At Chatsworth, Spacey starred in the school's senior production of , playing the part of
as . He took "Spacey" (his middle name and his paternal grandmother's maiden name) as his . Several reports have incorrectly suggested that he took his name in tribute to actor , combining Tracy's first and last names. He had tried to succeed as a comedian for several years, before attending the
in New York City, where he studied drama, between 1979 and 1981. During this time period, Spacey performed stand-up comedy in
alley talent contests.
Spacey's first professional stage appearance was as a
performance of
in 1981. The following year, he made his first Broadway appearance, as Oswald in a production of 's , starring . Then he portrayed Philinte in 's . In 1984, he appeared in a production of 's , in which he rotated through each of the male parts (he would later play Mickey in the ). Next came 's . In 1986, he appeared in a production of
dinner theatre.
His prominence as a stage actor began in 1986, when he was cast opposite ,
as Jamie, the eldest Tyrone son in 's lauded production of 's . Lemmon in particular would become a mentor to Spacey. He made his first major television appearance in the second season premiere of , playing a
American senator. Although his interest soon turned to film, Spacey remained actively involved in the live theater community. In 1991, he won a
for his portrayal of Uncle Louie in 's Broadway hit . Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.
Some of Spacey's early roles include a widowed eccentric millionaire on , the television miniseries
(1988), opposite Lemmon, and the comedy
(1989). He earned a fan base after playing the criminally insane arms dealer Mel Profitt on the television series . He quickly developed a reputation as a , and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of a bickering
couple in the
(1994), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire , and the malevolent office manager in the ensemble film
(1992), gaining him positive notices by critics. His performance as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in
won him the .
Spacey appeared in the 1995 thriller film , making a sudden entrance late in the film as the
John Doe after going unmentioned in the film's advertisements and opening credits. His work in Seven, The Usual Suspects, and
earned him Best Supporting Actor honors at the 1995 . He remarked in 2013: "I think people just like me evil for some reason. They want me to be a son of a bitch."
Spacey in 2006
Spacey played an egomaniacal
(1996), and founded
in 1997, with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media. He made his directorial debut with the film
(1996). The film was a failure at the box office, grossing $339,379 with a budget of $6 million, but critics praised Spacey's direction. He also voiced Hopper in the
Spacey won universal praise and a
for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the . Spacey won the
and earned another Tony nomination in 1999 for . In 2001, Spacey co-hosted, with , the Unite for the Future Gala, a UK fundraiser for the British victims of
at London's , produced by
He played a physically and emotionally scarred grade school teacher in
(2000), a patient in a mental institution who may or may not be an
(2001), and singer
(2004). The latter was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing, and starring duties in the biography/musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress . Facing little interest for backing in the United States, Spacey went to the United Kingdom and Germany for funding. Almost all of the film was made in . Spacey provided his own vocals on the Beyond the Sea soundtrack and appeared in several tribute concerts around the time of the film's release. He received mostly positive reviews for his singing, as well as a
nomination for his performance. However, reviewers criticized the age disparity between Spacey and Darin, noting that Spacey was too old to convincingly portray Darin, particularly during the early stages of the singer's life depicted in the film.
Spacey at HBO Post Emmys Party, 2008
Spacey hosted
twice: first in 1997 with musical guest
and special guests
from , and again in May 2006 with musical guest . In 2006, Spacey played
film . He was to return for its 2009 sequel, but the series was instead rebooted with 2013 film .
has since replaced Spacey as Luthor for Man of Steel's 2015 sequel, .
Spacey also appeared in , which received a
release in 2006. In 2008, he played an
lecturer in the film . The film is based on 's best seller , a story of student MIT card-counters who used
to aid them in card games such as . In early 2010, Spacey went to China to star in writer-director 's black comedy film , becoming the first Hollywood actor to star in a fully Chinese-funded film.
Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his . When he appeared on , he imitated (at host 's request) , , , , , , , , and . As a young actor in New York City, he used his skill to pretend to be Carson's son to obtain free theater tickets and enter .
(2007) features two duets with Spacey and the voice of the late : "" and "King of the Road". Spacey is a patron of the , a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the .
On March 18, 2011, it was announced that Spacey was cast as
series . He was nominated for the
in 2013 becoming the first lead actor to be Primetime Emmy nominated from a
series. He went on to win the
performance.
In July 2011, Spacey co-starred in the black comedy film , which grossed over $209.6 million at the box office. He executive produced the biographical survival thriller film
in 2013, which was nominated for the .
Spacey portrayed founder and president of the private military corporation Atlas Corporation, Jonathan Irons, in the 2014 video game
through . He became
of 's film division, , on January 6, 2016 after Relativity acquired his production company . Spacey starred as
in the comedy-drama
(2016). The film is based on the meeting that took place between Nixon and singer
() in December 1970 wherein Presley requested Nixon swear him in as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. He next starred in the comedy film , as a man trapped in the body of a cat. The film was released on August 5, 2016.
Spacey in 2006
In February 2003, Spacey announced that he was returning to London to become the artistic director of the , one of the city's oldest theatres. Appearing at a press conference with
and , he promised both to appear on stage and to bring in big-name talent. Spacey undertook to remain in the post for a full ten years. The Old Vic Theatre Company staged shows eight months out of the year. Spacey's first season started in September 2004, and opened with the British premiere of the play
by , directed by Spacey, which opened to mixed reviews. In the 2005 season, Spacey made his UK Shakespearean debut, to good notices, in the title role of
directed by .
In mid-2006, Spacey said that he was having the time of his life working at the Old V at that point in his career, he said, he was "trying to do things now that are much bigger and outside himself". He performed in productions of National Anthems by Dennis McIntyre, and
in which he played C.K. Dexter Haven, the
role in the film version. Critics applauded Spacey for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer/manager had yet to develop.
In the 2006 season, Spacey suffered a major setback with a production of 's , directed by . Despite an all-star cast (including
and future House of Cards co-star ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks. Later in the year, Spacey starred in 's , along with
and . The play received excellent reviews for Spacey and Best, and was transferred to Broadway in 2007. For the spring part of the 2007–08 season,
joined Spacey as the three characters in 's 1988 play .
In January 2009, he directed the premiere of 's , with ,
In September 2009,
directed Spacey in a revival of . Spacey played defense lawyer , a role that was made famous by
directed Spacey in a
; Spacey played the . The show began in June 2011, commencing a worldwide tour culminating in New York in early 2012. In March 2014, it was announced that Spacey would star in a one-man play at the Old Vic to celebrate his 10 years as artistic director. He took on the part of
in the play.
article stated that Spacey's "love affair with acting, and the absence of a visible partner in the life of an attractive 40-year-old, has resulted in misunderstanding and
magazine's bet-hedging assertion two years ago that he must be ". He responded to such rumors by telling
and other interviewers that he was not gay, and telling Lesley White of the Sunday Times, "I chose for a long time not to answer these questions because of the manner in which they were asked, and because I was never talking to someone I trusted, so why should I? Recently I chose to participate because it's a little hard on the people I love."
In an interview with , Spacey said, "I've just never believed in pimping my personal life out for publicity. I'm not interested in doing it. Never will do it. They can
they can speculate all they want. I just happen to believe that there's a public life and there's a private life. Everybody has a right to a private life no matter what their profession is." In 2000, he took his girlfriend of several years to the
and thanked her during the acceptance speech for his Best Actor award. Reports in 1999 and 2000 suggested that she was a
named Dianne Dreyer.
In September 2006, Spacey said that he intends to take up British citizenship when it becomes available to him. He is a
and a friend of , having met the former U.S. President before his presidency began. He described Clinton as "one of the shining lights" of the political process. According to
data, as of 2006, Spacey had contributed $42,000 to Democratic candidates and committees. He additionally made a
in the short film President Clinton: Final Days, a light-hearted
produced by the
In September 2007, Spacey met
president . Neither spoke to the press about their encounter, but hours later, Spacey visited the government-funded film studio . In December 2007, he co-hosted the
with . In March 2011, following
president 's crackdown on the , Spacey joined
and others in street protests against Lukashenko.
Appointments
Appointment
Post-nominal letters
 United Kingdom
3 November 2010
Honorary Commander
 United Kingdom
12 June 2016
Honorary Knight Commander
Spacey's brick in front of the Lucas Theater in Savannah, Georgia, US
Spacey was awarded an honorary
(Hon.Litt.D.) from the
in November 2005.
In June 2008, he was appointed as
Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at , succeeding
in the post. He was officially welcomed on October 13, 2008.
On April 12, 2015, he received a Special Olivier Award recognising his contribution to British theatre during his eleven-year tenure as Artistic Director of The Old Vic.
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DAVID GARRICK
This article was originally published in Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Volume XI. Robert Caruthers & Adolphus William Ward. Cambridge: University Press, 1910. p. 475-77.
GARRICK, DAVID (), English actor and theatrical manager, was descended from a good French Protestant family named Garric or Garrique of Bordeaux, which had settled in England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His father, Captain Peter Garrick, who had married Arabella Clough, the daughter of a vicar choral of Lichfield cathedral, was on a recruiting expedition when his famous third son was born at Hereford on the 19th of February 1717. Captain Garrick, who had made his home at Lichfield, where he had a large family, in 1731 rejoined his regiment at Gibraltar. This kept him absent from home for many years, during which letters were written to him by &little Davy,& acquainting him with the doings at Lichfield. When the boy was about eleven years old he paid a short visit to Lisbon where his uncle David had settled as a wine merchant. On his father's return from Gibraltar, David, who had previously been educated at the grammar school of Lichfield, was, largely by the advice of Gilbert Walmley, registrar of the exxlesiastical court, sent with his brother George to the &academy& at Edial, just opened in June or July 1736 by Samuel Johnson, the senior by seven years of David, who was then nineteen. This seminary was, however, closed in about six months, and on the 2nd of March 1736/7 both Johnson and Garrick left Lichfield for London -- Johnson, as he afterwards said, &with twopence halfpenny in his pocket,& and Garrick &with three-halfpence in his.& Johnson, whose chief asset was the MS. tragedy of Irene, was at first the host of his former pupil, who, however, before the end of the year took up his residence at Rochester with John Colson (afterwards Lucasian professor at Cambridge). Captain Garrick died about a month after David's arrival in London. Soon afterwards, his uncle, the wine merchant in Lisbon, having left David a sum of &1000, he and his brother entered into partnership as wine merchants in London and Lichfield, David taking up the London business. The concern was not prosperous--though Samuel Foote's assertion that he had known Garrick with three quarts of vinegar in the cellar calling himself a wine merchant need not be taken literally--and before the end of 1741 he had spent nearly half of his capital.
His passion for the stage comp he tried his hand both at dramatic criticism and at dramatic authorship. His first dramatic piece, Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades, which he was thirty-seven years later to read from a splendidly bound transcript to King George III and Queen Charlotte, was played at Drury Lane on the 15th of April 1740; and he became a well-known frequenter of theatrical circles. His first appearance on the stage was made in March 1741, incognito, as Harlequin at Goodman's Fields, Yates, who was ill, having allowed him to take his place during a few scenes of the pantomime entitled Harlequin Student, or The Fall of Pantomime with the Restoration of the Drama. Garrick subsequently accompanied a party of players from the same theatre to Ipswich, where he played his first part as an actor under the name of Lyddal, in the character of Aboan (in Southerne's Oroonoko). His success in this and other parts determined his future career. On the 19th of October 1741, he made his appearance at Goodman's Fields as Richard III and gained the most enthusiastic applause. Among the audience was Macklin, whose performance of Shylock, early in the same year, had pointed the way along which Garrick was so rapidly to pass in triumph. On the morrow the latter wrote to his brother at Lichfield, proposing to make arrangements for his withdrawel from the partnership, which, after much distressful complaint on the part of his family, met by him with the utmost consideration, were ultimately carried into effect. Meanwhile, each night had added to his popularity on the stage. The town, as Gray (who, like Horace Walpole, at first held out against the furore) declared, was &horn-mad& about him. Before his Richard had exhausted its original effect, he won new applause as Aboan, and soon afterwards as Lear and as Pierre in Otway's Venice Preserved, as well as in several comic characters (including that of Bayes). Glover (&Leonidas&) attend the duke of Argyll, Lords Cobham and Lyttelton, Pitt, and several other members of parliament testified their admiration. Within the first six months of his theatrical career he acted in eighteen characters of all kinds, and from the 2nd of December he appeared in his own name. Pope went to see him three times during his first performances, and pronounced that &that young man never had his equal as an actor, and he will never have a rival.& Before next spring he had supped with &the great Mr. Murray, counsellor,& and was engaged to do so with Mr. Pope through Murray's introduction, while he was dining with Halifax, Sandwich and Chesterfield. &There was a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman's Fields,& writes Horace Walpole. Garrick's farce of The Lying Valet, in which he performed the part of Sharp, was at this time brought out with so much success that he ventured to send a copy to his brother.
His fortune was now made, and while the managers of Covent Garden and Drury Lane resorted to the law to make Giffard, the manager of Goodman's Fields, close his little theatre, Garrick was engaged by Fleetwood for Drury Lane for the season of 1742. In June of that year he went over to Dublin, where he found the same homage paid to his talents as he had received from his own countrymen. He was accompanied by Margaret (Peg) Woffington, of whom he had been for some time a fervent admirer. (His claim to the authorship of the song to Lovely Peggy is still sub judice. There remains some obscurity as to the end of their liaison.) From September 1742 to April 1745 he played at Drury Lane, after which he again went over to Dublin. Here he remained during the whole season, as joint-manager with Sheridan, in the direction and profits of the Theatre Royal in Smock Alley. In
he fulfilled a short engagement with
at Covent Garden, his last series of performances under a management not his own. With the close of that season Fleetwood's patent for the management of Drury Lane expired, and Garrick, in conjunction with Lacy, purchased the property of the theatre, together with the r contributing &8000 as two-thirds of the purchase money. In September 1747 it was opened with a strong company of actors, Johnson's prologue being spoken by Garrick, while the epilogue, written by him, was spoken by Mrs. Woffington. The negotiations involved Garrick in a bitter quarrel with Macklin, who appears to have had a real grievance in the matter. Garrick took no part himself till his performance of Archer in the Beaux' Stratagem, a month after the opening. For a time at least &the drama's patrons& were content with the higher entertai in the end Garrick had to &please& them, like most other managers, by gratifying their love of show. Garrick was surrounded by many players of eminence, and he had the art, as he was told by , &of contradicting the proverb that one cannot make bricks without straw, by doing what is infinitely more difficult, making actors and actresses without genius.& He had to encounter very serious opposition from the old actors whom he had distanced, and with the younger actors and actresses he was involved in frequent quarrels. But to none of them or their fellows did he, so far as it appears, show that jealousy of real merit from which so many great actors have been unable to remain free. For the present he was able to hold his own against all competition. The naturalness of his acting fascinated those who, like Partridge in Tom Jones, listened to nature's voice, and justified the preference of more conscious critics. To be &pleased with nature& was, as Churchill wrote, in the Rosciad (1761), to be pleased with Garrick. for the stately declamation, the sonorous, and beyond a doubt impressive, chant of Quin and his fellows, Garrick substituted rapid changes of passion and humour in both voice and gesture, which held his audiences spellbound. &It seemed,& wrote Richard Cumberland, &as if a whole century had been stepped over in the passa old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarianisms of a tasteless age, too long superstitiously devoted to the illusions of imposing declamation.& Garrick's French descent and his education may have contributed to give him the vivacity and versatility which distingui and nature had given him an eye, if not a stature, to command, and a mimic power of wonderful variety. The list of his characters in tragedy, comedy and farce is large, and would be extraordinary for a moder it includes not less than seventeen Shakespearian parts. As a manager, though he committed some grievous blunders, he did good service to the theatre and signally advanced the popularity of Shakespeare's plays, of which not less than twenty-four were produced at Drury Lane under his management. Many of
and he is credited with the addition of a dying speech to the text of . On the other hand, Tate Wilkinson says that Garrick's production of
in 1773 was well received at Drury Lane even by the galleries, &though without their favourite acquaintances of the gravediggers.& Among his published adaptations are an opera, The Fairies (from ) (1755); an opera The Tempest (1756); Catherine and Petruchio (1758); Florizel and Perdita (1762). But not every generation has the same notions of the way in which Shakespeare is best honoured. Few sins of omission can be charged against Garrick as a manager, but he refused Home's Douglas, and made the wrong choice between False Delicacy and The Good Natur'd Man. For the rest, he purified the stage of much of its grossness, and introduced a relative correctness of costume and decoration unknown before. To the study of English dramatic literature he rendered an important service by bequeathing his then unrivalled collection of plays to the British Museum.
After escaping from his chains of passion for the beautiful but reckless Mrs. Woffington, Garrick had in 1749 married Mademoiselle Violette (Eva Maria Veigel), a German lady who had attracted admiration at Florence or at Vienna as a dancer, and had come to England early in 1746, where her modest grace and the rumours which surrounded her created a furore, and where she found enthusiastic patrons in the earl and countess of Burlington. Garrick, who called her &the best of women and wives,& lived most happily with her in his villa at Hampton, acquired by him in 1754, whither he was glad to escape from his house in Southampton Street. To thish period belongs Garrick's quarrel with Barry, the only actor who even temporarily rivalled him in the favour of the public. In 1763 Garrick and his wife visited Paris, where they were cordially received and made the acquaintance of Diderot and others at the house of the baron d'Holbach. It was about this time that Grimm extolled Garrick as the first and only actor who came up to the demand and it was in a reply to a pamphlet occasioned by Garrick's visit that Diderot first gave expression to his views expounded in his Paradoxe sur le com&dien. After some months spent in Italy, where Garrick fell seriously ill, they returned to Paris in the autumn of 1764 and made more friends, reaching London in April 1765. Their union was childless, and Mrs. Garrick survived her husband until 1822. Her portrait by Hogarth is at Windsor Castle.
Garrick practically ceased to act in 1766, but he continued the management of Drury Lane, and in 1769 organized the Shakespeare celebrations at Stratford-on-Avon, an undertaking which ended in dismal failure, though he composed an &Ode upon dedicating a building and erecting a Statue to Shakespeare& on the occasion. Of his best supporters on the stage, Mrs. Cibber, with whom he had been reconciled, died in 1766, and Mrs. (Kitty) Clive retired in 1769; but Garrick contrived to maintain the success of his theatre. He sold his share in the property in 1776 for &35,000, and took leave of the stage by playing a round of his favourite characters--Hamlet, Lear, Richard and Benedick, among S Lusignan in Zara, Aaron Hill's adaptation of Voltaire's Zaire; and Kitely in his own adaptation of 's Every Man in his Humour; Archer in 's Beaux Stratagem; Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's Alchemist; Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife; Leon in 's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. He ended the series, as Tate Wilkinson says, &in full glory& with &the youthful Don Felix& in Mrs. Centlivre's Wonder on the 10th of June 1776. He died in London on the 20th of January 1779. He was buried at Westminster Abbey at the foot of Shakespeare's statue with imposing solemnities. An elegy on his death was published by William Tasker, poet and physiognomist, in the same year.
In person, Garrick was a little in his later years he seems to have inclined to stoutness. The extraordinary mobility of his whole person, and his power of as it were transforming himself at will, are attested to by many anecdotes and descriptions, but the piercing power of his eye must have been his most irresistable feature.
Johnson, of whose various and often merely churlish remarks on Garrick and his doings many are scattered through the pages of Boswell, spoke warmly of the elegance and sprightliness of his friend's conversation, as well as of his liberality a while to the great actor's art he paid the exquisite tribute of describing Garrick's sudden death as having &eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.& But the most discriminating character of Garrick, slightly tinged with satire, is that drawn by
in his poem of Retaliation. Beyond a doubt he was not without a certain moral timidity contrasting strangely with his eager temperament and al but, though he was not cast in a heroic mould, he must have been one of the most amiable of men. Garrick was often happy in his epigrams and occasional verse, including his numerous prologues and epilogues. He had the good taste to recognize, and the spirit to make public his recognition of, the excellence of Gray's odes at a time when they were either ridiculed or neglected. His dramatic pieces, The Lying Valet, adapted from Motteux's Novelty Lethe (1740), The Guardian, Linco's Travels (1767), Miss in her Teens (1747), Irish Widow, &c., and his alterations and adaptations of old plays, which together fill four volumes, evinced his knowledge of stage effect and his appreciation of lively but he cannot be said to have added one new or original character to the drama. He was joint author with Colman of The Clandestine Marriage (1766), in which he is said to have written his famous part of Lord Ogleby. The excellent farce, High Life below Stairs, appears to have been wrongly attributed to Garrick, and to be by James Townley. His Dramatic Works (1798) fill three, his Poetic (1735) two volumes.
Garrick's Private Correspondence&(published
with a short memoir by Boaden, in 2 vols. 4to), which includes his extensive Foreign Correspondence with distinguished French men and women, and the notices of him in the memoirs of Cumberland, Hannah More and Madame D'Arblay, and above all in Boswell's Life of Johnson, bear testimony to his many attractive qualities as a companion and to his fidelity as a friend.
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