James Spader Add to My Celebs Age 52 Birthday Feb. 7th, 1960 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA Height 5' 10"

James Spader's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Boston Legal Alan Shore The Practice Alan Shore Discovery Atlas Narator (2) The Family Tree Jake Nichols

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Shorts 2003 - Alien Hunter 2002 - The Stickup 2002 - Secretary 1999 - Curtain Call 1996 - 2 Days in the Valley 1996 - Crash 1994 - Stargate 1994 - Wolf 1992 - Bob Roberts 1991 - True Colors 1990 - Bad Influence 1989 - Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 - The Rachel Papers 1988 - Jack's Back 1987 - Wall Street 1987 - Baby Boom 1987 - Less Than Zero 1987 - Mannequin 1986 - Pretty in Pink 1985 - Tuff Turf 1981 - Endless Love

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Son of teachers Todd and Jean Spader. Attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellars; dropped out in eleventh grade. Bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga before landing his first roles. Graduated from TV movies to Brat Pack Films, playing the bad guy. His performance in Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) (Best Actor, Cannes 1989) led to bigger and more varied roles.


TRIVIA:

• Is known to prefer being called "Jimmy".
• Good friends with actor 'Eric Stoltz' (qv).
• Has two unsuccessful TV pilots, _Diner (1983) (TV)_ (qv) and _Starcrossed (1985) (TV)_ (qv), to his credit.
• Auditioned for the film Taps, but eventually lost the part to 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv).
• First performer to win Leading Actor Emmy's for portraying the same character (Alan Shore) on two different shows (_"The Practice" (1997)_ (qv) and _"Boston Legal" (2004)_ (qv)) without one of the Emmy wins being for guest actor/actress.
• His wife, 'Victoria Spader' (qv), was the set decorator for _Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)_ (qv).
• Born on the same date (7 February 1960) as _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv)'s "TV Fun House" writer/cartoonist 'Robert Smigel' (qv), best known as the voice of 'Triumph the insult comic dog' from _"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993)_ (qv).
• Has a photographic memory. He can look at a script and he remembers what the pages look like. As he films a scene he "reads" the page. The only reason he screws up a line is if very similar words (e.g. it and is) are written fairly close together.

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