Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

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.