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Kevin Spacey - Biography

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Kevin Spacey is an American actor. Kevin Spacey was born on July 26, 1959, in South Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was born as Kevin Spacey Fowler. His father, Thomas Flower was a technical writer (died in 1993) and a mother, Kathleen Fowler was a secretary (died in 2003). He was the youngest of three children.

Kevin Spacey has a brother and a sister. Kevin's brother, Randall is a musician. His sister, Julie Ann is a paralegal, and she has worked as a model. He has two dogs, Mini and Legacy.

In childhood, Kevin had a lot of traveling. They settled in southern California. As Kevin was very naughty in childhood, he was admitted to Northride Military Academy. He was expelled from Northridge Military Academy for throwing a tire at a classmate.

After the Northride Military Academy, Kevin Spacey attended Chatsworth High School in the San Fernando Valley. After this he attended Los Angeles Valley College. During 1979 to 1980, he was in the Juilliard School, New York, New York to study drama.

Kevin Spacey's first professional stage appearance was as a messenger in the 1981 production of 'Henry VI'. His first major television appearance was in the second season premiere of Crime Story. In this, he played a role as a Kennedy-esque American Senator. In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of "Uncle Louie" in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers.

In 1986, Kevin's first movie, "Heartburn" was released. Mike Nichols was the director of this movie. In this movie, Kevin Spacey played a role as a bandit with actor Jack Nicholson who played role as Mark Louis Forman. After this he worked in films including "Working Girl", "Rocket Gibraltar", "Iron Will", "A Bug's Life", "A Time to Kill", "Hurlyburly", "American Beauty", "K-PAX", "The Life of David Gale", "Edison", "Superman Returns",etc.

In 1996, His "Se7en" was released. David Fincher was the director of this movie. In this movie, Kevin Spacey played a role of John Doe with the actor Brad Pitt who played role of Detective David Mills. For this movie, Kevin Spacey won MTV Awards (Best Villian), New York Film Critics Circle Awards (Best Supporting Actor).

In the last few years, Kevin Spacey played lighter, more sympathetic roles including a physically and emotionally scarred grade school teacher (Pay It Forward), a patient in a mental institution who may or may not be an alien (K-Pax), singer Bobby Darin (Beyond the Sea), etc. These films have been considerably less critically and financially successful than Spacey's darker films.