Spader's first major film role was in the film Endless Love (1981), and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf (1985). Spader features in The Blacklist as Raymond Reddington While studying to becoming a full-time actor, Spader undertook jobs including bartending, teaching yoga, driving a meat truck, loading railroad cars, and being a stable boy. Kennedy, Jr., dropped out at the age of seventeen, and moved to New York City to pursue his acting career. He later transferred to Phillips Academy, befriended former President John F. Дuring his early education, 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. 'I was always around dominant and influential women, and that left a great impression'. According to Spader, he had a very progressive and liberal upbringing. He has two older sisters, Libby Spader and Annie Spader. His parents, Jean ( nГ©e Fraser) and Stoddard ('Todd') Greenwood Spader, were both teachers.

Spader was born on February 7, 1960, in Boston and is the youngest of three children.

He currently stars as high-profile criminal-turned- FBI-informant Raymond 'Red' Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist (2013вЂ“present) for which he has earned two Golden Globe Awards nominations. His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice (2003вЂ“2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004вЂ“2008) (for which he won three Emmy Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office (2011вЂ“2012). He also voiced and performed motion-capture of the titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, the action science fiction film Stargate (1994), the controversial psychological thriller Crash (1996), the erotic romance Secretary (2002) and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor and producer.

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