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Kevin Spacey received Academy Awards® for Best Supporting Actor
for "The Usual Suspects" and Best Actor for "American Beauty," which also
brought him a Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award. His performance in "Beyond the
Sea,"
which he also directed, earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.
Spacey
won a 1991 Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor for Neil Simon's "Lost in
Yonkers." He
also starred onstage in "The Iceman Cometh" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
Spacey's other film projects include "Swimming with Sharks," "L.A.
Confidential," "Se7en,"
"The Negotiator," "Looking for Richard," "K-Pax," "The Shipping News," "The Life
of David
Gale" and "Superman Returns." His recent projects include "21," "Fred Claus"
and the
British film "Telstar." Spacey is currently starring in a production of David
Mamet's
"Speed-the-Plow" at London's Old Vic Theatre Company, where he is artistic
director. He
formed Trigger Street Productions, which produced "The Iceman Cometh" for
London's
Almeida and Old Vic, and later transferred the play to Broadway; for his
performance as
Hickey, Spacey won Best Actor honors from the Evening Standard and the
Laurence
Olivier Awards. Trigger Street's productions also include the films "21," "The Big
Kahuna"
and "Hurlyburly." In November 2002 Spacey and business partner Dana Brunetti
launched TriggerStreet.com, a web-based filmmaker and screenwriter
community that is
an interactive site for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and
unique talent.
After just four years, the site has more than 200,000 members worldwide.
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