page_title: James Spader
hierarchical_section_title: James Spader
caption_attribution_description: English: James Spader speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2014.
context_page_description: James Todd Spader is an American actor and producer. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape, the action science fiction film Stargate, the controversial psychological thriller Crash, the erotic romance Secretary and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played the titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron, which he portrayed through voice and motion capture.
  His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office. He also stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond "Red" Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist, for which he has earned two Golden Globe Award nominations.
context_section_description: James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor and producer. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), the action science fiction film Stargate (1994), the controversial psychological thriller Crash (1996), the erotic romance Secretary (2002) and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he played the titular character of Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), which he portrayed through voice and motion capture.
  His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal (for which he won three Emmy Awards), and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office. He also stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond "Red" Reddington in the NBC crime drama The Blacklist, for which he has earned two Golden Globe Award nominations.
caption: Spader at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
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