James Spader Bio | Wiki
James Spader is an American actor. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
James also voiced and performed motion capture of the titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He currently stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond “Red” Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist for which he has earned two Golden Globe Awards nominations.
James Spader Age
James was born on February 7, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is 62 years old.
James Spader Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 10 in (Approx. 1.78 m).
James Spader Family
He was born in Boston, to his parents Jean and Stoddard (“Todd”) Greenwood Spader. Both James’ parents were teachers. He is the youngest of three children. James has two older sisters, Libby and Annie. According to him, he had a very progressive and liberal upbringing. “I was always around dominant and influential women, and that left a great impression”.
James Spader Wife | Victoria Kheel
James married his first wife decorator Victoria Kheel in 1987. The two met while he was working in a yoga studio after he moved to New York City in the 1980s. They have two sons Sebastian and Nathaneal. James filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004. He began dating his former Alien Hunter co-star, Leslie Stefanson, in 2002.
The couple has one son together named Elijah. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2014, he revealed he has an obsessive–compulsive disorder. James is a sixth-generation descendant of Connecticut politician Seth P. Beers.
James Spader Education
During his early education, he attended many private schools, including The Pike School in Andover where his mother taught art. He also attended the Brooks School in North Andover where his father was a teacher.
James later transferred to Phillips Academy, befriended former President John F. Kennedy’s son John F. Kennedy, Jr., dropped out at the age of seventeen, and moved to New York City to pursue his acting career. While studying to become a full-time actor, James undertook jobs including bartending, teaching yoga, driving a meat truck, loading railroad cars, and being a stable boy.
James Spader Movies And Tv Shows
1994 Frasier
1997 Seinfeld
2003 The Pentagon Papers
2003–2004 The Practice
2004–2008 Boston Legal
2006 Discovery Atlas
2011–2012 The Office
2013–present The Blacklist
2002 The Stickup
2003 I Witness
2003 Alien Hunter
2004 Shadow of Fear
2009 Shorts
2012 Lincoln
2014 The Homesman
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
James Spader The BlackList
James stars in the television series, The Blacklist, which premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. He plays Raymond “Red” Reddington, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, a high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant. The show follows Red, a former U.S. Navy officer turned high-profile criminal who voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades.
He tells the FBI that he has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world that he has compiled over the years and that he is willing to inform on their operations in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He gives the condition he works exclusively with rookie FBI criminal profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone), to whom he seemingly has no connection.
James Spader The Practice | Boston Legal
James starred as Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice. From 2004 to 2008, he reprised his role in the series Boston Legal. He won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2004 for his portrayal of The Practice and won it again in 2005 and 2007 for Boston Legal.
With the 2005 win, James became one of only a few actors to win an Emmy Award while playing the same character in two series. Even rarer, he won a second consecutive Emmy while playing the same character in two series. James also won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Series, Comedy, or Musical for Boston Legal in 2006.
James Spader The Office
He guest starred as Robert California in “Search Committee”, the season 7 finale of The Office. On June 27, 2011, it was announced that James would join the cast on a permanent basis. He planned to stay only through the eighth season. While the original plan was just to do the guest appearance, executive producer Paul Lieberstein said: “those two scenes became a season”.
James Spader Seinfeld
In 1997 he guest starred in the Seinfeld episode “The Apology”, as an angry recovering alcoholic who refuses to apologize to George for making fun of him. Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends.
James Spader Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. James’ estimated net worth is $20 million.
Is James Spader Married
No. He divorced his ex-wife Victoria Kheelin in 2004. He began dating his former Alien Hunter co-star, Leslie Stefanson, in 2002. The couple has one son together named Elijah.
How Is James Spader
He is 62 years old. James was born on February 7, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.