Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

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.