James Spader Biography

James Spader is an American actor and producer who has won an Emmy award. He is best known for his roles in Movies and TV as Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate, Robert California in The Office, Alan Shore, in Boston Legal, and as the voice of Ultron in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Avengers

James Spader Age

James Spader was born on Feb 7, 1960, in Boston.

James Spader Height And Weight

Spader stands at a height of 5 feet 8inches. He also has an average weight of 158 lbs.

James Spader Family

Spader is the son of Stoddard Greenwood Spader (Father) and Jean Fraser Spader (Mother). Both his parents were teachers. He also has two siblings, sisters to be precise; Annie Spader and Libby Spader.

James Spader Wife

His current partner is Leslie Stefanson, however Spader has been married twice. He met his first wife, Victoria Kheel, a decorator in the 1980s while working in a Yoga studio. They got married in 1987, they had two boys together, and parted ways in 2004. He started dating his second wife, Leslie Stefanson in 2002. They had co-starred in the film called Alien Hunter (2003). Spader and his second wife Leslie are blessed with a single boy.

James Spader Children

Spader has three children, sons. Two (Sebastian and Elija) from his first marriage to Victoria. The other son (Nathaneal) is from Leslie, his current wife. The names of their children are Sebastian Spader, Elijah Spader & Nathaniel Spader
Sebastian Spader is a production and film making legend, known for movies like Machete, Slice and 1234, who was born in 1989.
Elijah Spader is known for his work on At Night Comes Wolves (2021), The Black list (2013) and Nailed. He was born in 1992.
Nathaneal Spader is the only son of James Spader and Leslie Stefanson, he was born in 2008.

James Spader Education

He attended many private schools during his early childhood, including The Pike School, where his mother taught drawing, and the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts where his father taught.

He later moved to Phillips Academy, where he had a friendship with the son of former President John F. Kennedy, Jr., before dropping out at the age of 17 and moving to New York to pursue his acting career.

James Spader Career

The film Endless Love was his first major film role, and his first starring role was in Tuff Turf (1985). In 1986, he rose to stardom, playing the wealthy, arrogant playboy Steff in Pretty in Pink. He co-starred in Mannequin (1987) and Less Than Zero (1987) film adaptation in which he played a drug dealer named Rip.

In the early 1990s, his roles included a young, rich widow in the romantic drama White Palace (1990) opposite Susan Sarandon, a yuppie who met the enigmatic Rob Lowe in the Noir drama Bad Influence (1990), John Cusack’s best friend in the drama True Colors (1991), and a poker-playing drifter in The Music of Chance (1993).

Spader is the main character in The Blacklist, the NBC drama, which premiered on 23 September 2013 on NBC. He portrays Raymond “Red” Reddington, one of the fugitives, most searched after by the FBI. He also starred in Avengers villainous robot Ultron: Age of Ultron (2015).

James Spader the Office

James played a guest role as Robert California in “Search Committee”, the season 7 finale of The Office. However, it was announced that he was going to be on the cast on a permanent basis on On June 27, 2011.

He planned to stay only through Season 8 and things turned out to be a little longer than that; the original plan was just to do appearances as a guest on the show, but he ended up doing 7 episodes. Executive producer Paul Lieberstein said: “those 2 scenes became a second season”.He planned to stay only through Season 8 and things turned out to be a little longer than that; the original plan was just to do appearances as a guest on the show, but he ended up doing 7 episodes. Executive producer Paul Lieberstein said: “those 2 scenes became a second season”. And that he was going to be on the cast on a permanent basis!
He planned to stay only through Season 8 and things turned out to be a little longer than that; the original plan was just to do appearances as a guest on the show, but he ended up doing 7 episodes. Executive producer Paul Lieberstein said: “those 2 scenes became a second season”.

James Spader Stargate

Stargate is a TV show that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1997. The show was about a military team that travels to different planets and other worlds through a portal called the Stargate.
James Spader, who played Dr. Daniel Jackson, was an American actor whose career began in the early 1980s. He has starred in many movies and TV shows including The Black List, Boston Legal, and Sex lives and Videotape & Drugs & Tuff Turf.
Stargate is one of the most popular sci-fi TV shows of all time.

James Spader Movies And TV Shows

• Team-Mates
• Endless Love
• Tuff Turf
• The New Kids
• Pretty In Pink
• Mannequin
• Baby Boom
• Less Than Zero
• Wall Street
• Greasy Lake
• Jack’s Back
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• The Rachel Papers
• Bad Influence
• White Palace
• True Colors
• Storyville
• Bob Roberts
• The Music of Chance
• Dream Lover
• Wolf
• Stargate
• Crash
• 2 Days in the Valley
• Keys To Tulsa
• Driftwood
• Critical Care
• Curtain Call
• Supernova
• The Watcher
• Slow Burn
• Speaking of Sex
• Secretary
• The Stickup
• I Witness
• Alien Hunter
• Shadow of Fear
• Shorts
• Lincoln
• The Homesman
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Dier
• The Family Tree
• Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction
• A Killer In The Family
• Family Secrets
• Starcrossed
• Frasier
• Seinfeld
• The Pentagon Papers
• The Practice
• Boston Legal
• Discovery Atlas
• TheOffice
• The Blacklist

James Spader Awards

Spader won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role on The Practice and won it again for Boston Legal in 2005 and 2007. Also, he was one of only a few actors to win an Emmy award with the 2005 victory, though portraying the same character in two separate episodes.

Even rarer, though playing the same character in two separate shows, he received a second consecutive Emmy. He also won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Boston Legal series, comedy, or musical. Even rarer, though playing the same character in two separate shows, he has received a second consecutive Emmy. He also won the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Boston Legal series, comedy, or musical.

James Spader net worth

James Spader has an estimated net worth of over $10 million.