James Woods

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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High School. He attended MIT, but dropped out in 1969, just before his graduation, in order to pursue a career in acting.

His career has been noted for the intense characters he has chosen. He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: the first in 1987 for Best Actor in Salvador and again in 1997 for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi. He has also garnered critical praise for his voice work for Hades in Disney's Hercules.

Partial filmography

• Stuart Little 2 (voice) (2002)
• John Q (2002)
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (voice) (2001)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• The General's Daughter (1999)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
• Contact (1997)
• Hercules (voice) (1997)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
• Nixon (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• The Specialist (1994)
• Chaplin (1992)
• True Believer (1989)
• Best Seller (1987)
• Salvador (1986)
• Against All Odds (1984)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• Videodrome (1983)
• Eyewitness (1981)
• The Onion Field (1979)
• The Choirboys (1977)
• The Way We Were (1973)

External link

• James Woods (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000249/) at the Internet Movie Database

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