KEVIN SPACEY (Bobby Darin/Director/Producer/Writer)
Since childhood the theatre has been Kevin Spacey’s primary allegiance with roles ranging from high school to Broadway. He trained at the Juilliard School of Drama and made his New York stage debut in Joseph Papp’s Central Park production of HENRY IV, PART I.
His breakthrough came when director Jonathan Miller cast Spacey as the ne’er-do-well son of the late Jack Lemmon in the 1986 Broadway production of Eugene O’Neil’s LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, which also played the Haymarket Theatre in London. Other favorite roles include Treplov in THE SEAGULL (Kennedy Center); Ben in NATIONAL ANTHEMS (Long Wharf); Paul in Barrie Keefe’s BARBARIANS (SoHo Rep); Athol Fugard’s PLAYLAND (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Uncle Louie in Neil Simon’s LOST IN YONKERS, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor.
His close association with Mr. Lemmon continued as they shared the screen on three other projects; George Steven’s Jr’s THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN for NBC, Gary David Goldberg’s DAD for Paramount and David Mamet’s screen adaptation of GLENGARY GLEN ROSS, co-starring Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Alec Baldwin.
Nine years ago cinema audiences discovered Spacey in three distinct performances as Buddy Akerman in George Huang’s SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, Verbal Kint in Bryan Singer’s THE USUAL SUSPECTS and John Doe in David Fincher’s SE7EN. He has continued to build an impressive body of work with such films as LA CONFIDENTIAL, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, THE NEGOTIATOR, HURLYBURLY, LOOKING FOR RICHARD, THE BIG KAHUNA, K-PAX, THE SHIPPING NEWS, THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE and AMERICAN BEAUTY. Many of these performances have won him nominations and awards including two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for SUSPECTS and Best Actor for AMERICAN BEAUTY as well as the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1998 he returned to the stage following a five year absence in Eugene O’Neill’s classic THE ICEMAN COMETH. The production originated at London’s Almedia Theatre and later transferred to the Old Vic Theatre and onto Broadway (with Spacey as producer), where it played a sold-out acclaimed run. For his performance as Hickey he was nominated for the Tony Award (the play received 5 nominations) and won the Evening Standard Award and the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Actor.
His work on television has included 7 episodes of WISEGUY and the film DARROW for PBS.
He made his directorial debut with the Miramax film ALBINO ALLIGATOR starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise, Faye Dunaway and Viggo Mortensen.
Spacey formed Trigger Street Productions in 1997, which produced ICEMAN and KAHUNA and the off-Broadway production of Lee Blessing’s COBB at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Trigger Street’s feature THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND, starring Don Cheadle and Ryan Gosling for first time writer/director Matthew Hoge premiered in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Paramount Classics. Trigger Street will next produce the film of Ben Mezrich’s amazing tale of six MIT students who learned the art of card counting and took Vegas for millions in BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE for MGM, under the direction of Brett Ratner. Trigger Street is also producing the feature MINI’S FIRST TIME for first time writer/director Nick Guthe, starring Alec Baldwin, Nicky Reed, Carrie Ann Moss and Luke Wilson.
In November 2002, Spacey and business partner Dana Brunetti launched TRIGGERSTREET.COM, the web-based filmmaker and screenwriter’ community; an interactive site for the purpose of discovering and showcasing new and unique talent. Budweiser sponsors the site with Real Networks and in just two years the site has achieved over 150,000 active members with the top ten finalists in the short film competition having been given major screenings of their films at the Tribeca, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals.
As an actor Spacey most recently played opposite Morgan Freeman and Justin Timberlake in the film EDISON for writer/director David Burke, who was the head writer on the series WISEGUY.
Kevin is now serving as the new artistic director of The Old Vic Theatre in London, where his first season has just launched with the new Dutch play, CLOACA that he directed. This will be followed by Sir Ian McKellen in the Panto ALADDIN. His acting debut in the company will begin next year in Dennis McIntyre’s NATIONAL ANTHEMS, under the direction of David Grindley and then in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY to be directed by Jerry Zaks.
He dedicates this film in loving memory of his mother.
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