Feb 7, 1960

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

James Todd Spader is
an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such
as sex, lies, and videotape (for which he won the Best Actor award at
the Cannes Film Festival), Stargate, and Secretary.

Spader attended The Pike School, where his mother taught art and
Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, where his father,
Todd, taught. The family lived on campus, and Spader is one of the
school's most famous alumni. Afterwards he attended Phillips Academy, ... ... (read more...)
but he dropped out in the eleventh grade to pursue acting in New York
City.
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He met his wife, Victoria, while working in a yoga studio soon after
he moved to New York in the early 1980s. She often traveled with him,
either on location or just on the road. They married in 1987 and had
two sons, Sebastian and Elijah. They divorced in 2004.

Known for his mastery of the smarmy, sexually deviant yuppie, Spader
got his start in Pretty in Pink. He also played Alan Shore, the lead
of the mostly-new cast which creator David E. Kelley put in place in
2003 for ABC's The Practice (for which he won an Emmy Award) and was
given the lead in that show's spin-off, Boston Legal for which he won
an Emmy in 2005 and thus became one of the few actors to win
consecutive Emmys for playing the same character in two different
series, (another being co-star William Shatner).