James Spader is an accomplished American actor and producer with an outstanding career. The award-winning actor has, over the years, amassed a long list of credits for films and television series from which he got his wealth.
Gatekeepers News reports that Spader who is best known for his role in movies like’Blacklist, Boston Legal, Stargate and many more, can be classified as one of the highest-paid actors in the world.
Biography
Born James Todd Spader on 7th February 1960 in Boston, Massachusett, the accomplished actor is the youngest of three children. His parents, Jean (née Fraser) and Stoddard (“Todd”) Greenwood Spader, were both teachers. Spader has two older sisters, Libby Spader and Annie Spader.
He attended many private schools, including The Pike School in Andover where his mother taught art, and the Brooks School in North Andover where his father was a teacher.
Spader who claimed he had a very progressive and liberal upbringing later transferred to Phillips Academy, befriended former President John F. Kennedy’s son John F. Kennedy, Jr., dropped out at the age of seventeen, and moved to New York City to pursue his acting career. While studying to become a full-time actor, Spader undertook jobs including bartending, teaching yoga, driving a meat truck, loading railroad cars, and being a stable boy.
Personal Life
Spader met his first wife, decorator Victoria Kheel, while working in a yoga studio after he moved to New York City in the 1980s. She was a decorator by profession and worked on the sets of his various movies. The couple married in 1987 and divorced in 2004. They have two sons together; Sebastian and Nathaneal who are both actors.
Spadar began dating his former Alien Hunter (2003) co-star, Leslie Stefanson, in 2002. They have one son together.
Filmography
Spader began his career acting in supporting roles in films such as Pretty in Pink (1986), Mannequin, and Wall Street (both 1987). His breakthrough role came with the Steven Soderbergh drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
He then starred in films such as True Colors (1991), Stargate (1994), Crash (1996), and Secretary (2002). Spader took supporting roles in Bob Roberts (1992), Wolf (1994), Lincoln (2012), and The Homesman (2014). He also voiced the role of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice (2003–2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004–2008), a role which earned him three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
He’s also known for his role as Robert California in the sitcom The Office (2011–2012). He currently stars Raymond “Red” Reddington in the NBC crime series The Blacklist (2013 – present).
Net Value
James Spader made fortune himself by appearing in numerous films and series. He appeared in a total of 101 episodes of ‘Boston Legal’ and has been appearing on ‘Blacklist’ from 2013 till now.
The actor, in 2006, became the narrator of the documentary ‘Discovery Atlas’ on the Discovery Channel. He charges thousands of dollars for each episode he appears.
Spader’s net worth is about $20 million.
