James Spader

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an actor best known for his roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Stargate, and Secretary.

He was also the lead of the mostly-new cast which creator David E. Kelley put in place in 2003 for ABC's The Practice (for which he won an Emmy Award) and was given the lead in that show's spinoff, Boston Legal.

Filmography

  • Shadow of Fear (2004)
  • I Witness (2003)
  • Alien Hunter (2003)
  • Secretary (2002)
  • Speaking of Sex (2001)
  • Supernova (2000)
  • Slow Burn (2000)
  • The Watcher (2000)
  • Curtain Call (1999)
  • Keys to Tulsa (1997)
  • Driftwood (1997)
  • Curtain Call (1997)
  • Critical Care (1997)
  • 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
  • Crash (1996)
  • Dream Lover (1994)
  • Wolf (1994)
  • Stargate (1994)
  • The Music of Chance (1993)
  • Storyville (1992)
  • Bob Roberts (1992)
  • True Colors (1991)
  • Moon 44 (1990)
  • Bad Influence (1990)
  • White Palace (1990)
  • The Rachel Papers (1989)
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
  • Jack's Back (1988)
  • Baby Boom (1987)
  • Less Than Zero (1987)
  • Mannequin (1987)
  • Wall Street (1987)
  • Pretty in Pink (1986)
  • The New Kids (1985)
  • Tuff Turf (1985)
  • Endless Love (1981)

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He was also the lead of the mostly-new cast which creator David E. Kelley put in place in 2003 for ABC's The Practice (for which he won an Emmy Award) and was given the lead in that show's spinoff, Boston Legal. The following year he lent his voice to the widely acclaimed La Cité des Enfants Perdus and has made films only occasionally since. James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an actor best known for his roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Stargate, and Secretary. His 1994 role in Krzysztof Kieslowski's last film, Three Colors: Red marked a rare appearance for him but still earned him a Cesar Award nomination for Best Actor. Endless Love (1981). In the late 1980s and early 90s, Trintignant worked infrequently because of health problems. Tuff Turf (1985). Following this, he starred in Francois Truffaut's final film, Vivement Dimanche!.

The New Kids (1985). Throughout the 1970s Trintignant starred in numerous films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film, Under Fire. Pretty in Pink (1986). Since divorced, they have had a daughter, Marie (January 21, 1962 - August 1, 2003), who at the age of 17 years of age performed in La Terrasse alongside her father and had become a very successful actress in her own right. Wall Street (1987). He married Nadine Marquand, herself an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. Mannequin (1987). Subsequent leading roles in art-house classics such as Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (at the time the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market), Bertolucci's The Conformist, and the 1969 political thriller Z, in which he portrayed an idealistic young attorney, garnered him an international following as well as the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

Less Than Zero (1987). After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and a very successful career. Baby Boom (1987). Trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. Jack's Back (1988). Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the natural choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, Un homme et une femme, a global success that made him an international star. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). His other uncle, Maurice Trintignant (born 1917), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans.

The Rachel Papers (1989). From a wealthy family, he is the nephew of race car driver Louis Trintignant who was killed in 1933 while practicing on the Péronne racetrack in Picardie. White Palace (1990). After touring in the early 1950s in several theater productions, his first motion picture appearance came in 1955 and the following year he gained stardom with his performance opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman. Bad Influence (1990). At age 20, Trintignant moved to Paris to study drama, and made his theatrical debut in 1951 going on to be seen as one of the most gifted French actors of the post-war era. Moon 44 (1990). Jean-Louis Trintignant (born December 11, 1930) is a French actor, born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

True Colors (1991). Bob Roberts (1992). Storyville (1992). The Music of Chance (1993).

Stargate (1994). Wolf (1994). Dream Lover (1994). Crash (1996).

2 Days in the Valley (1996). Critical Care (1997). Curtain Call (1997). Driftwood (1997).

Keys to Tulsa (1997). Curtain Call (1999). The Watcher (2000). Slow Burn (2000).

Supernova (2000). Speaking of Sex (2001). Secretary (2002). Alien Hunter (2003).

I Witness (2003). Shadow of Fear (2004).