I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

His performance as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In September 2006 Spacey said that he intends to take up British citizenship when it becomes available to him. Next came Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

In 2013 he starred in the Netflix series House of Cards. He grew up in California and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. A.