James Spader
Birth name	James Todd Spader
Born	February 7, 1960 (1960-02-07) (age 47) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Years active	1978 - present
Spouse(s)	Victoria Spader (1987-2004)
Awards Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series 2004 - The Practice 2005 - Boston Legal

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as sex, lies, and videotape (for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival), Stargate, and Secretary, as well as his role as the lead character in the TV series Boston Legal.

Spader attended The Pike School, where his mother taught art and Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and where his father, Todd, also taught. The family lived on campus, and Spader is one of the school's most famous students. Afterwards he attended Phillips Academy, but he dropped out in the eleventh grade to pursue acting in New York City.

He met his wife, Victoria Kheel, a decorator, while working in a yoga studio soon after he moved to New York in the early 1980s. She often traveled with him, either on location or just on the road. They married in 1987 and had two sons, Sebastian and Elijah. They divorced in 2004.

Known for his mastery of the smarmy, sexually deviant yuppie, Spader got his start in Pretty in Pink. He also played Alan Shore, leading the mostly new cast that creator David E. Kelley put in place in 2003 for ABC's The Practice (for which he won an Emmy Award) and was given a leading role in that show's spin-off, Boston Legal, for which he won an Emmy in 2005, one of the few actors to win consecutive Emmys for playing the same character in two different series, (another being co-star William Shatner).

In October 2006, Spader narrated China Revealed, the first episode of Discovery Channel's documentary series Discovery Atlas.

Trademark

Known for playing blue-blooded WASP yuppies, usually villainous antagonists (in particular, Endless Love and Pretty in Pink).

Filmography

• Endless Love (1981)
• The New Kids (1985)
• Starcrossed (1985) (made for TV)
• Tuff Turf (film) (1985)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Baby Boom (1987)
• Less Than Zero (1987)
• Mannequin (1987)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Jack's Back (1988)
• The Rachel Papers (1989)
• sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
• Bad Influence (1990)
• White Palace (1990)
• True Colors (1991)
• Bob Roberts (1992)
• Storyville (1992)
• The Music of Chance (1993)
• Dream Lover (1994)
• Wolf (1994)
• Stargate (1994)
• 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
• Crash (1996)
• Keys to Tulsa (1997)
• Driftwood (1997)
• Critical Care (1997)
• Curtain Call (1999)
• Supernova (2000)
• Slow Burn (2000)
• The Watcher (2000)
• Speaking of Sex (2001)
• The Stickup (2001)
• Secretary (2002)
• I Witness (2003)
• Alien Hunter (2003)
• The Pentagon Papers (2003)
• Shadow of Fear (2004)
• Discovery Atlas China Revealed (2006)

External links

• James Spader at the Internet Movie Database
• James Spader at the Notable Names Database
• JamesSpader.org Fan website