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Kevin Spacey: Usual Suspects
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Kevin Spacey hosted the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 20, 2006. He participated in six sketches, including playing the roles of a detective, a falconer, and Neil Young. He ... starred in a sketch with Andy Samberg, spoofing The Usual Suspects.
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Even in stage plays in high school, Kevin found the theatre to be his home. Following acting school, Kevin worked in the New York theatre scene and gradually found his way to television and film. His first movie role is in the 1986 film “Heartburn,” in which he’s credited as Subway Thief. He’s part of the impressive “Working Girl” cast which included Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, and Alec Baldwin. Also in 1988, Kevin gained greater recognition for his role as criminal mastermind Mel Profitt in the series “Wiseguy,” one of the first of the villainous parts he would undertake. In 1992, he’s cold Mr. Williamson, the office manager in “Glengarry Glen Ross,” and a Christmas hostage in “The Ref.” 1995 – a breakout year if there ever was one – proved Spacey had major talent: he won a Supporting Actor Oscar in Bryan Singer’s “The Usual Suspects,” with whom he would later collaborate with on “Superman Returns.” Following 1995, Kevin was everywhere and usually dominating the screen at the same time.
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In 1995, Spacey appeared in Se7en, and as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects. His role in The Usual Suspects launched him to A-list status and won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1996, he played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill, and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997 with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media. In 1996 he made his directorial debut with the film Albino Alligator. The film was a failure at the box office but Spacey's direction was praised.
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In 1995, Spacey played a serial killer in "Se7en". This was a thriller where Spacey murders people who he thinks are guilty of the seven deadly sins. He did another negative role as the enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in "The Usual Suspects". This film was successful enough to launch him to A-list status in Hollywood. This role ... won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Then in 1996, he essayed the role of an egomaniacal district attorney in "A Time to Kill". In 1997 "L.A. Confidential" was released where he played the role of a cop.
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Spacey landed his next memorable film role as yet another foul-mouthed jerk in the 1994 Swimming With Sharks, which he ... co-produced. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of an abusive studio executive, and he gained further recognition the same year for his entirely different role in The Ref, in which he played one half of a constantly arguing married couple. However, it was with his performance in the following year's The Usual Suspects that Spacey fully stepped into the spotlight. As the enigmatic, garrulous "Verbal" Kint, Spacey was one of the more celebrated aspects of the critically lauded sleeper hit, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work. If that weren't enough, the actor won additional acclaim the same year for his role as a serial killer in the stylish and unrelentingly creepy thriller Seven.
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The Usual Suspects brought Kevin his first Oscar – a Best Supporting Actor statuette – for the role of slippery criminal Verbal Kint, while putting him on a fast-track to all the best scripts in Tinseltown. But first up was his directorial debut. Albino Alligator, a claustrophobic hostage movie starring Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and Faye Dunaway which, although it received good reviews, failed to do much at the box office.
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