The Blacklist Declassified

🔴 Dossier: JAMES SPADER

♤ plays Raymond “Red” Reddington on The Blacklist

🔴 From IMDb’s Mini-Biography:
 
“James Todd Spader was born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean (Fraser) and Stoddard Greenwood ‘Todd’ Spader. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellers; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga before landing his first roles…. His best known role is the colorful attorney Alan Shore on the David E. Kelley television series The Practice (1997) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004).

“He won 3 prime time Emmy Awards in the Best Actor, Drama category for playing the same character Alan Shore in two different television series ‘The Practice’ and ‘Boston Legal’ out of the 4 nominations he received for the same between the years 2004-2008. He also received a Golden Globe and several Screen Best Actor Award nominations for reprising this role.”

– By z115aa@tamvm1.tamu.edu and Ishani Verma [IMDb: http://imdb.to/1LQupp8%5D

James Spader at the Golden Gobes in 2014

 
IndieWire, Max Winter: On THE BLACKLIST: Why James Spader Is the Perfect Star for the Increasingly Unreal Medium of TV http://bit.ly/1yBfjyG
// 2/12/2014, “…[H]e plays it with the same aggressively insouciant quality, as if every line he speaks is not only the best line ever written for a television actor but is also the most explosive; and the more dramatically he speaks the line, the more of a detonation it sets off.

“Spader is occupying, with unusual elan, a historical moment in TV watching and reception: he is with us as TV becomes an almost entirely private personal phenomenon, in which viewers develop relationships with characters and plotlines that they cannot quite shake.”

⭕ Biographies

NBC Biography: http://bit.ly/1iCS4Sz
Biography[.]com: http://bit.ly/1FtSHsc
James Spader Web Site (not affiliated): http://bit.ly/1Vj9fVL
Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/1G2dBtp

 

⭕ Detailed Info:

● IMDb: http://imdb.to/1KOk6FG
● ABC: James Spader News http://abcn.ws/1QAQOKN
● AceShowBiz: James Spader Filmography http://bit.ly/1j9IyqH (list of films & tv shows)
● Boston Legal: http://boston-legal.org/episodes.shtml
● JamesSpader[.]org Web Site (not affiliated): http://bit.ly/1VgVYm0 (mostly before 2010)
● TV.com: http://bit.ly/1PxDMh8 (with filmography)

⋘ I’m drawn to conflicted characters ⋙

– James Spader on playing Raymond Reddington in ‘The Blacklist’
Salon/Firstpost (6/4/2015)

 
“You may recall James Spader as the voice of Ultron, in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but he also plays smarty-pants Alan Shore in ‘Boston Legal,’ the creepy attorney Edward Grey in The Secretary and the eccentric Graham Dalton in sex, lies and videotape. Apart from the fact that Spader has a tendency to play the most edgy characters with panáche, you can’t deny that he’s a star actor. He sinks into every character like he’s living them, and you would expect nothing less from him.” – Salon, Swetha Ramakrishnan (6/4/2015): http://bit.ly/1MsUXzD

⭕ Fan Sites:

Actor/Director James Spader ➔ http://on.fb.me/1R3CLOE
The Blacklist and James Spader Fans ➔ http://on.fb.me/1KEJev4

JamesSpader[.]org Web Site (not affiliated): http://bit.ly/1VgVYm0 (mostly before 2010)
James Spader Archive (fansite) ➔ http://bit.ly/1IdgMDg
James Spader Fans (FB) ➔ http://on.fb.me/1YDZcPI
James Spader ‘Red Reddington’ Fans (FB) ➔ http://on.fb.me/1iyWeuI
 
● Boston Legal: ➔ http://www.boston-legal.org
⋙ List of more sites about James Spader at IMDb: ➔ http://imdb.to/1KOk6FG

 
❝ I read it [The Blacklist] and I was intrigued by the character, and the story, and the possibilities for the direction that the series could go,” said Spader, also adding “The character’s sense of humour, I thought, was such an interesting juxtaposition to what the realities of his life were. The realities are very often dangerous, and quite dramatic and extreme. I saw the possibility for a sense of humour within that life. I responded to that immediately and have done everything I can to try and explore that as much as we can on the show. ❞ – James Spader, in Salon http://bit.ly/1MsUXzD
 

⭕ Photo Libraries:

● http://gtty.im/1NWvq56 ➔ Getty Images
● http://bit.ly/1gSfimy ➔ PhotoBucket: James Spader Fan Club Pictures & Images
● http://bit.ly/1FKYFhH ➔ Spader Fans (Pics) (Lisa Ray) on Pinterest
● http://bit.ly/1GoduIy ➔ Spader Pics
● http://bit.ly/1JrPjJD ➔ SuperiorPics: James Spader
● http://bit.ly/1VcNyH1 ➔ FanPop: James Spader
● http://bit.ly/1NP2GKa ➔ Zimbio: James Spader

 
❝ I’ve found that there has always been a long historical precedent in both film, and in television, and in literature of the anti-hero,” said Spader. “It’s always been those characters that I’ve been the most drawn to, characters who are very conflicted, and not just conflicted but also very often very dichotomous or — as you say — they sort of live in the grey area.

❝ I’m much more interested in the idea that you’re never quite sure what he is,” said Spader of Reddington, “Whether he’s more a good man who’s capable of very, very bad things or whether he’s a bad man who’s capable of very good things. ❞ James Spader, in Salon 2015 (link above)

⭕ Twitter, Tumblr, Websites:

@AgentsOfSpader Agents of S.P.A.D.E.R. ➔ http://agentsofspader.tumblr.com
@filmya247 (Ashley-Marie) It Made Nearly Dying Worth It ➔ http://filmya247.tumblr.com
@HestiaPrytaneum ➔ http://hestia-prytaneum.tumblr.com
⋙ HotDamnSpader ➔ http://hotdamnspader.tumblr.com
@JamesSpaderCast James Spader Podcast ➔ http://protozoic.com
@JamesSpaderOrg ➔ http://james-spader.org
⋙ MesmerizingLife (formerly MesmerizingJamesSpader) ➔ http://bit.ly/1GxNmKz
@NikkixSensei (Monique Martin) ➔ http://humanxbeing.tumblr.com
@SpaderFans James Spader Network [England] ➔ http://bit.ly/1IdgMDg
@sundayinaugust (Selina) ➔ http://asundayinaugust.tumblr.com

 
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