James Spader (James Spader)

Son of teachers Todd and Jean Spader, born in 1960. While studying at Andover, a private secondary school, Phillips Academy, many of the graduates of which joined the yuppies took courses directed by Peter Sellers, dropped out in eleventh grade. He moved to New York to engage in the studio of Michael Chekhov, and, until I received my first role, he worked assistant waiter cleaned the manure and learned yoga. Acted in various telepostanovkah; in youth films played in the main role of the "bad guys". Due to external data - an attractive blonde with an innocent look - Spader often invited to play the role of the yuppie - "Baby Boom," Wall Street "," Mannequin "(all - 1987)," Pretty in Pink "," Less than zero ". Participation in the movie "Sex, . Lies, and Videotape "(1989) (Cannes Film Festival award in 1989 for Best Supporting Actor), . where Spader played Graham, . loser, . which destroys the life of a young lawyer-southerner, . his wife and her sister, . led to more significant and diverse roles,
. In "White Palace" (1990), Spader plays a young widower who falls in love with a woman older than himself - performed by Susan Sarandon, the film "Storivill - New Orleans lawyer, who is running for Congress and tempted by carnal pleasures. This was followed by an erotic thriller "The lover of Dreams" (1994), where he again appeared in character roles been led astray by a young handsome, who became trapped under a ruinous power of "Femme Fatale". Science fiction strip "Stargate" allowed the actor to change the genre - Spader played the Egyptologist, who gets on another planet and fights among the sands, shoulder to shoulder with Kurt Russell. It is worth mentioning as films "Wolf" and "Two Days in the Valley". By yuppie roles, filled Spader, and added another, completely different plan - a perverse thrill seeker in a car crash, in many respects controversial "auto-erotic" film by David Cronenberg.