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A s the notorious bad guy with the we remember the Academy Award-winner in The
villainous heart, he has defined the Usual Suspects, American Beauty, and Se7en — all of
art and made a bang-up job it. Despite which have led up to his ultimate role; the dystopian
this reputation, he is a flexible and embodiment of a narcissistic US president in House of
consummate actor on both the stage and film. He has Cards as Frank Underwood.
even earned a knighthood for returning the Old Vic Underwood’s character represents a politician who
Theater in London, where he owns a home, to its former believes himself above the law and the current buzz
glory. Intensely private, and reportedly single, we know around this fictional series that is streaming into
very little about the man behind the onstage characters, millions of homes, is that it is engaging the public due
and for Kevin Spacey that is the way he likes it. to its parallels with the reality of the US Election 2016.
Spacey believes Donald Trump proves that House of
“The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince Cards’ fiction is not so far from the reality.
you that I am that character on screen. It allows an "We are a fictional show, although there are times where
audience to come into a movie theater and believe I am we'll shoot some sequence and I'll think 'Gosh, did we
that person.” push it too far?' ...and then I turn on the news and I go,
'Well, we probably haven't gone far enough,” the actor
What we do know about him is that in a long, steady admitted on NBC's Meet the Press.
and increasingly successful career he has become a
part of our collective memory. At his best as the worst,
Combat is my sleep.
Blood is my oxygen.
Politics is my blood.
Sleep is my enemy.
My enemies are my food.
– Frank Underwood character, House of Cards
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