1. Kevin Spacey once called him "one of the shining lights" of the political process.
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16. In 2013, Kevin Spacey took on the lead role in an original Netflix series, House of Cards.
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18. Kevin Spacey was named honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and honorary Knight Commander (KBE) in 2015.
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19. In 2013 Kevin Spacey began a starring role as a cutthroat US congressman from South Carolina in the political drama House of Cards, an episodic series created for Netflix and distributed via the company's online streaming-video service.
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21. In 1991 Kevin Spacey won a Tony Award for featured actor for his performance as the mobster Uncle Louie in Neil Simon's hit Lost in Yonkers.
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24. Kevin Spacey is a big fan of Woody Allen, and after House of Cards was released, he sent the director a note and a Netflix gift subscription telling him to check out his work.
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25. Kevin Spacey was one of the celebs captured in Ellen DeGeneres's legendary star-packed Oscars selfie in 2014.
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26. Kevin Spacey set up the Kevin Spacey foundation in 2010, first in the UK.
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32. Kevin Spacey was born on the 26 of July 1959 in South Orange, New Jersey.
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34. In 2003, Kevin Spacey was appointed artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre in London.
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35. Kevin Spacey set up his Kevin Spacey Foundation in the UK in 2010 and the US in 2013.
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36. Kevin Spacey parodied a mad bald man, "Dr Evil", in Austin Powers in Goldmember while portraying a sinister bald man, "Lex Luthor", in Superman Returns (2006).
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37. Kevin Spacey is an Academy Award winning actor who has catapulted into international stardom in the 1990s and now inhabits the character Frank Underwood on the Netflix original series House of Cards.
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41. In 1999, Kevin Spacey was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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44. Kevin Spacey was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2010 and an honorary Knight Commander (KBE) in 2015.
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47. In 2003 Kevin Spacey was appointed artistic director of the Old Vic in London.
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48. On December 24, 2018, Kevin Spacey uploaded a video, entitled Let Me Be Frank, onto his YouTube channel in which he appeared to deny the allegations while in character as Frank Underwood.
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50. Kevin Spacey went on to win the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards for his season 2 performance.
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51. Kevin Spacey was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013, becoming the first lead actor to be Primetime Emmy nominated from a web television series.
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56. Kevin Spacey had tried to succeed as a comedian for several years before attending the Juilliard School in New York City, as a member of Group 12, where he studied drama with teacher Marian Seldes between 1979 and 1981.
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59. Kevin Spacey has an older brother, Randy Fowler, who is a limousine driver and Rod Stewart impersonator in Boise, Idaho, and a sister, Julie Ann Fowler Keir, an office worker.
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60. Kevin Spacey was the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 until stepping down in mid-2015.
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61. Kevin Spacey took over the role in Bryan Singer's 2006 version, "Superman Returns", which starred Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel.
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63. In March 2014, it was announced that Kevin Spacey would star in a one-man play at the Old Vic to celebrate his 10 years as artistic director.
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64. Kevin Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.
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66. In February 2003, Kevin Spacey announced that he was returning to London to become the artistic director of the Old Vic, one of the city's oldest theatres.
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68. Kevin Spacey portrayed founder and president of the private military corporation Atlas Corporation, Jonathan Irons, in the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare through motion capture.
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69. On March 18, 2011, it was announced that Kevin Spacey was cast as Frank Underwood in the Netflix series House of Cards.
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70. Kevin Spacey is a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres.
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72. Kevin Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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76. Kevin Spacey met Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in September 2007, but never spoke to the press about their encounter.
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77. Kevin Spacey is a Democrat and a friend of President Bill Clinton.
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78. Kevin Spacey had previously been awarded the lesser rank of honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to drama in 2010.
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82. Kevin Spacey won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and earned another Tony nomination in 1999 for The Iceman Cometh.
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84. Kevin Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, to Kathleen Ann, a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler, a technical writer and data consultant.
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