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James Spader won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1989. He played Graham Dalton, a sexual voyeur whose presence disrupts three lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
James Spader has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He won in 2004 for The Practice, then in 2005 and 2007 for Boston Legal, making him one of only a few actors to win the award while playing the same character across two different series.
James Spader played Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, in The Blacklist. The NBC series ran for 10 seasons, premiering on the 23rd of September, 2013, and concluding on the 13th of July, 2023. Spader appeared in 218 episodes and also served as executive producer.
James Spader was born on the 7th of February, 1960, in Boston, Massachusetts. He dropped out of Phillips Academy at age seventeen, moved to New York City, and supported himself with jobs including bartending, teaching yoga, and driving a meat truck while pursuing acting. His film debut came in 1978 in Team Mates.
James Spader played the villainous robot Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron in 2015, using voice and motion-capture performance. He is set to reprise the role in the Disney+ series VisionQuest, which is in post-production as of 2026.
James Spader is a sixth-generation descendant of Connecticut politician Seth P. Beers. Laurent Clerc, the co-founder of the American School for the Deaf, is his third great-grandfather. Both of his parents were teachers, and he grew up on the North Shore of Massachusetts near Andover and in Marion near Cape Cod.