Kevin Spacey Net Worth

How much is Kevin Spacey worth now?

Net Worth:$75 Million
Profession:Professional Actor
Date of Birth:July 26, 1959 (age 63)
Country:United States of America
Height:
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

About Kevin Spacey

After becoming one of the most heralded character actors of our generation early in his career with movies such as Seven and The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey became a two time Academy Award winner faster than it takes most people to win just one. His penchant for playing criminal masterminds drew audiences of millions and it culminated in his most recent and well known role to date; Frank Underwood in one of Netflix’s first and most popular original series, House of Cards. In 2017, the actor controversially came under fire for being accused of sexual misconduct as part of the #metoo movement.

American actor, producer, and singer Kevin Spacey has an estimated net worth of $75 million dollars, as of 2023. In 1996, Spacey was recognized for his role in The Usual Suspects with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Thanks to catching the eye of rom-com director Mike Nichols, Kevin Spacey got one up on his peers and was cast in the Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson led Heartburn in the late 1980s, and then in a larger role in Working Girl, both directed by Nichols.

Spacey was quickly able to display his intense acting skills working alongside acting greats, and it wasn’t long until he was considered one of them. Playing John Williamson in 1992’s Glengarry Glen Ross, an adaptation of a play about real estate salesmen competing for commission was the actor’s breakthrough role.

He not only starred alongside Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, and Jack Lemmon, he was textbook Spacey in his role. Glengarry Glen Ross opened the floodgates for the actor, as every script with featuring a villainous character was thrown at Spacey from every direction, and they all stuck.

He played the evil psychopath, John Doe, in Seven, the unlikely mastermind that everyone fears in The Usual Suspects, and to cap the massively successful decade off, he even played the evil grasshopper, Hopper, in A Bug’s Life.

In the 2000s, Spacey played one of the most famous bad guys of all time when he reunited with his Usual Suspects director, Bryan Singer, for Superman Returns, where he starred as the most iconic bald headed schemer, Lex Luthor.

Spacey’s acting has awarded him dozens of accolades, but most famously for his leading role in Sam Mendes’ American Beauty, where he plays a suburban dad who becomes  infatuated with his teenage daughter’s best friend.

For a drama that cost just $15 million to make, it went on to gross over $350 million worldwide, which is over 23x its budget. That kind of profit was unheard of for a movie with a narrative that can’t be explained in just one sentence, but it was Spacey’s must-see performance that made critics shout about it from rooftops.

Spacey’s work in the 2010s has been more streamlined in to one specific project. Though he has continued to be the evil puppeteer with questionable motives in crime capers such as 21, the Horrible Bosses series, and Baby Driver, his role in the Netflix original series House of Cards, has gotten him impossibly more recognition and accolades than he previously had.

As most of Spacey’s salaries for his acting roles are undisclosed, taking a look at his movies’ box office results is an easy gauge to understand how much money he makes from acting. As each consecutive film makes more money, it is a certainty that Spacey is offered a higher salary for each following role because he has proven to be bankable and producers know his starring role alone will attract audiences.

The Horrible Bosses series has grossed over $300 million, Superman Returns made almost $400 million, and Seven made more than $320 million.

The actor is clever producing a lot of the movies he stars in, meaning that Spacey not only gets an acting salary, but he will get a cut of the movie’s net profits too. However, though much of his monstrous net worth comes from his classic performances, the most lucrative of Spacey’s work is in starring and producing House of Cards.

In its final years, the producer was pocketing $500,000 per episode, and whether or not that includes his fee as a producer is unknown. Spacey also produced movies of which he wasn’t part of the cast, including The Social Network and Captain Phillips, both of which went on to make dump trucks full of cash, with a combined worldwide gross of $440 million.

Kevin Spacey is best for known for his roles as a villain or antagonist of some sort, his piercing stare and icy demeanor is what he has become known for. And because Spacey isn’t physically intimidating like the more cliched movie villains he is often cast for being so unsuspecting.

The actor has been known to play characters that seemingly have a moral compass but are eventually revealed to be the one pulling the strings all along. Spacey is type cast in to these roles and is irreplaceable, so irreplaceable that Netflix killed off his character of Frank Underwood off-screen instead of recasting the character when the actor was impacted by the sexual misconduct allegations in 2017.

The climax that the whole series had been building up to was already ready to go apparently, but unfortunately fans will never get see it. Because of this, the whole season had to be rewritten and reshot, all due to the fact that nobody can pull of the menacing mannerisms that Spacey can. Netflix also dropped Kevin Spacey’s completed Gore Vidal biopic and lost $39 million, according to MovieWeb.

Summing-Up

He has formed many bonds in the movie industry, David Fincher not only directed him in Seven, but they worked together to produce The Social Network. Spacey also worked with Bryan Singer on both The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns. One of my all time favorites was Kevin Spacey’s portrayal of Lester Burnham in American Beauty where he wasn’t playing a villain at all. In fact he was playing a very enlightening part of a man who was dealing with his midlife crisis by getting fit and starting over.

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