James Woods

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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor, voice actor, and producer. Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Casino (1995), Nixon (1995), Interview (1996), Hades in Disney's animated film Hercules (1997) and Falcón in the film Stuart Little 2 (2002) are two of his best known roles.

Woods has also been nominated for two Academy Awards, one in the Best Actor category for Salvador (1986) and the other in the Best Supporting Actor category for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996).

He has been named in two Primetime Emmy Awards for the television series Promise (1987) and My Name Is Bill W. (1989).

On television, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS drama Shark (2006–08), his guest appearance in Showtime's Ray Donovan (2013) and his guest appearance on various episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons.

Early life

Woods was born in Vernal, Utah, on April 18, 1947, and had a brother who was ten years younger. Gail Peyton Woods, his father, was an army intelligence officer who died in 1960 after routine surgery. Martha A.'s mother, Martha A. After her husband's death and later married Thomas E. Dixon, (née Smith), ran a preschool. Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, which he graduated in 1965. He is of partial Irish descent and was raised Catholic for a short time as an altar boy.

Woods was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Inside the Actors Studio, he said he had aspired to be an eye surgeon. He promised the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and was a member of the student theatre company Dramashop, performing in and directing a number of plays. He dropped out of MIT in 1969, a semester before graduation, in order to pursue an acting career.

Woods has credited his acting career to Tim Affleck, the father of actor Ben and Casey Affleck, who served as a stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston, which Woods attended as a student.

Personal life

Woods said he was an avid video gamer during a press interview for Kingdom Hearts II. In Rhode Island, he is a antiques dealer.

A speeding driver lost control and crashed into five other vehicles on December 14, 2015, while driving alone westbound through an ice storm on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Woods swerved his Jeep Grand Cherokee to escape the accident and collided with a retaining wall, but he slid backwards into a guard rail 100 feet (30 meters) above the Colorado River. He had a minor concussion.

Woods married costume designer Kathryn Morrison-Pahoa in 1980. In 1983, the couple divorced. He married Sarah Owens, a 26-year-old equestrian and boutique owner, in 1989, but they divorced four months later. Woods dated Heather Graham, his co-star in the film Diggstown, in 1992.

Woods was raised Roman Catholic and considers himself a faithful follower of the faith.

Woods is an avid poker player who plays in cash games and numerous tournaments. He appeared in the American Stroke Association's Hollywood Home Game collection in 2004. He has over 80 tournament appearances to his name, including seventh place at the 2015 World Series of Poker in the $3000 No Limit Shootout event and fifth place in the 2018 WSOP's $1,500 Dealers Choice tournament.

Woods sued actress Sean Young for $2 million, accusing her of stalking him after they appeared together in the film The Boost in 1988. Woods had overreached when she had sparked his on-set advances, according to a young girl who later said that she had prompted him to do so. In August 1989, the case was settled out of court, with a fine of $227,000 to Young to cover her legal fees.

Michael Jeffrey Woods, Woods' younger brother, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 49 in 2006. Woods sued Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island, alleging negligence. In 2009, the case was settled.

Woods sued Abe List, a new Twitter user, and ten other Twitter users for $10 million over a allegedly offensive tweet accusing him of being a "cocaine addict." Woods unsuccessfully tried to locate the Twitter user's name in October 2015, finding that he would not "use legal procedure to crack internet speakers' anonymity" unless [he] can bring a prima facie lawsuit." However, the user's Anti-SLAPP complaint was dismissed in an unexpected later decision, and Woods was able to pursue his case against List against List, despite the ten other defendants being dismissed from the litigation. The defendant's appeal was dismissed in October 2016, but lawyer Lisa Bloom, who represented the anonymous Twitter user, announced that the account had now died. Woods received a letter from Bloom shortly after, saying that she regretted tweeting and further regrets any damage caused to Mr. Woods' image by the tweet."

Portia Boulger sued Woods for misidentifying her as a Nazi in a allegedly libelious tweet right before the Abe List case was settled. At a campaign function, there was a snapshot of a different woman giving a Nazi salute while wearing a Donald Trump t-shirt. Boulger suffered $3 million in fees. Under the innocent construction law, the court ruled in favour of Woods. Boulger's appeal was dismissed, but the Sixth Circuit's Court of Appeals upheld the decision.

Woods has said he was a member of the Democratic Party before Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1999, adding that "every single Democrat without exception stood behind a convicted persecutors." That was the end. Woods was a registered Independent during George W. Bush's presidencies as President George W. Bush and Barack Obama's time; he has since pledged himself to the Republican Party. When Carly Fiorina dropped out of the 2016 presidential race, he changed his vote to Ted Cruz in November 2015.

In the media, Woods has defended former President Donald Trump and has been dubbed a "staunch Trump supporter."

Woods' name appeared in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times on August 17, 2006, which condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and Israel in the 2006 Lebanon War.

The Gersh Agency, Woods' long-time staff firm, told him by email on July 4, 2018 that they did not want to represent him anymore. Woods said the department fired him due to his political convictions. He has stated that there were several conservative actors who did not reveal their thoughts because "the blacklist against conservatives in Hollywood is extremely accurate."

Woods has a reputation for regularly expressing his political views on his Twitter stream, resulting in the actor being locked out of his account multiple times. Woods and Amber Tamblyn's conversation on Twitter soared in 2017 after Tamblyn accused Woods of assaulting her while she was under age, which Woods denied as a lie.

Woods converted his Twitter stream into a bulletin board for evacuing the California wildfires, and was credited with saving lives and assisting families and helping to reunite missing loved ones and pets with their families.

In a tweet on October 22, he referred to Hungarian Jewish billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as "satanic" and reiterated an accusation that a young Soros survived the Holocaust in Hungary by passing as Gentile and being a "Nazi collaborator." Soros was 13 years old when Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, and 14 years later, when World War II came to an end in 1945.

Woods returned to Twitter in February 2020 after a ten-month absence. Woods also posted a false tweet message on Twitter this month that anyone earning over $29,000 a year will be taxed at 51%, according to a Bernie Sanders' suggested taxation program. In March 2020, his Twitter account was briefly suspended after he posted a picture of Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum, who was described as "intimate media," that was not published without Gillum's permission.

Woods was the top source of election disinformation on Twitter in 2022, according to an investigation by researchers with the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public and the Krebs Stamos Group.

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Career

In Frank McMahon's first American performance of Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, Woods appeared in 36 plays before making his Broadway debut in 1970 at the Lyceum Theatre. He was able to do the part by claiming to be British. He returned to Broadway the following year to play David Darst in Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, which was also at the Lyceum Theatre. In 1971, Bob Rettie appeared in Michael Weller's Moonchildren's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Woods appeared alongside Edward Herrmann and Christopher Guest in the Royale Theatre in Broadway the following year. Woods received a Theatre World Award in 1972 for his appearance. In 1973, he returned to Broadway to portray Steven Cooper in Jean Kerr's Finishing Touches at the Plymouth Theatre.

Woods has a reputation as a leading Hollywood character actor, having appeared in more than 130 films and television series. He was doing little film roles by the 1970s, including his debut in Elia Kazan's The Visitors and a role as Barbra Streisand's boyfriend in The Way We We Were.

In 1978, Woods played Meryl Streep's husband in the critically acclaimed four-ep miniseries Holocaust. The story of a Jewish family's struggle to escape Nazi Germany's attempt to annihilate the Jewish people is the subject of the series. Michael Moriarty and Rosemary Harris appeared in the series as well. Holocaust was named in the Outstanding Limited Series as well as seven other Primetime Emmy Awards.

Woods appeared in Onion Field as murderer Gregory Powell in 1979. He received acclaim for his work, and was nominated for Best Actor awards from the Golden Globes, the National Society of Film Critics, and the New York Film Critics Circle Association.

In Sergio Leone's epic Once a Time in America (1984), Woods played Maximillian "Max" Bercovicz, a Jewish gangster, alongside Robert De Niro, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, and Danny Aiello. Woods considers his film role as one of his favorites. At the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, the film premiered and received a 15-minute standing ovation. "Sergio Leone's epic crime drama is visually stunning, stylistically bold, and emotionally haunting, and it's packed with outstanding performances from Robert De Niro and James Woods, with an 86% approval rating out of 51 reviews, according to the consensus reading. He appeared on Against All Odds as a nightclub owner who employs an ageing footballer, portrayed by Jeff Bridges, to locate his missing woman.

Woods portrayed real-life journalist Richard Boyle as he chronicles events in El Salvador (1986). "Salvador" is long and disjointed, and he wants to tell too many stories," Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "this is the kind of job Woods was born to play." He was named Best Actor by the Independent Spirit Award. He also received his first Academy Award nomination for his work.

Woods received his first Primetime Emmy Award in 1987 for his role as a disabled man in the made-for-television film Promise (1986). James Garner and Piper Laurie appeared in the film as well. Woods received his second Primetime Emmy Award for his role as the initiator of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. in the made for television drama film My Name Is Bill W. starring James Garner and Gary Sinese.

Woods hosted Saturday Night Live with Don Henley as the musical guest. Woods appeared alongside Glenn Close in the family drama Immediate Family (1989).

Woods was offered a leading role in Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs (1992), but his agent refused to show the script to the actor rather than showing it to him. As Woods learned of this some time later, he sacked his CAAs (CAA), swapping them with ICM.

In Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), Woods appeared in a minor role as a hustler, Lester Diamond, alongside Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci. Woods learned that Scorsese was interested in working with him, he called Scorsese's office and left the following note: "Any time, any place, or some portion, any fee." The film was well received by critics, receiving a Certified Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes as a result of the consensus read: "Impressive hopes and bravura performances from an outstanding cast help Casino pay off, despite a familiar plot that might make it difficult for some viewers as a safe bet for director Martin Scorsese." He appeared as H.R. in 1995. Richard Nixon's Nixon, Haldeman in Oliver Stone's Nixon, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon. Woods was nominated for the ensemble's work by the Screen Actor Guild Award as well as the rest of the cast.

Woods appeared alongside Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg in Rob Reiner's film Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). In 1963, Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist who assassinated civil rights king Medgar Evers, was depicted as a Byron De La Beckwith. The film was not a box-office hit and got mixed feedback, gaining a critic's analysis of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes. Woods' performance was lauded by several commentators, however. "Woods' performance as the obnoxious old reprobate Beckwith is the film's most significant sign of life," Janet Maslin says in her New York Times review. "James Woods is So Bad at Being Bad," the Los Angeles Times published an article titled "James Woods Is So Good at Being Bad." Woods had lobbied director Rob Reiner for the role, which Reiner had intended for an actor in his 70s, like Paul Newman. "Beckwith's Mississippi accent, which Woods developed by watching tapes and working with an accent coach, helped him to separate himself from the story." "I thought I was speaking a foreign language." Woods received a Golden Globe nomination as well as his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Woods would appear in Hercules (1997), where he received critical praise. Woods' appearance was characterized as full of "diabolical glee" by critic Roger Ebert, who likened his "verbal inventiveness" to that of Robin Williams in Aladdin. Woods' appearance in a remarkable manner as a sarcastic Scarfe villain is also lauded by Janet Maslin of The New York Times. He reprised his role as Hades in the television series of the same name, where he received a Daytime Emmy Award in 2000 for his role in season 2 and the Kingdom Hearts video game series. Woods appeared in Sofia Coppola's directorial debut The Virgin Suicides (1999) starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and Kathleen Turner. The film premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival to a largely critical reception.

Woods lent his voice to many films, video games, and television shows, including another Disney film, Recess: School's Out (2001) as Dr. Phillium Benedict, the confused former headmaster who is attempting to eliminate summer vacation. In Stuart Little 2 (2002), Woods will also voice Falcons. In the Sony Pictures Animation film Surf's Up, Woods portrayed Reggie Belafonte, a short-tempered sea otter. The main character's rival is a Don King-like promoter. After losing to Pixar's Ratatouille, the film went on to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature. Woods has appeared in Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy from 2005 to 2016. In the Kingdom Hearts video games, he has continued to voice Hades. Lex Luthor's role has also appeared in three animated series, Justice League Action, since 2016.

Woods appeared in the CBS legal drama series Shark from 2006 to 2008. He was a notorious defense lawyer who became disillusioned after his client commits a murder and become a top prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.

Woods appeared in HBO's Too Big to Fail in 2011, with Paul Giamatti, William Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Tony Shalhoub, and Bill Pullman. Woods performed Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers, for which he has been lauded. Woods received 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, including for Best Outstanding Supporting Actor. Woods has also been nominated for his work in the Screen Actors Guild.

Woods appeared in the limited series Coma in 2012 alongside Geena Davis, Richard Dreyfuss, and Ellen Burstyn. Ridley Scott and Tony Scott produced the series, which premiered on A&E. Woods appeared in Showtime's critically acclaimed series Ray Donovan in a recurring role as Patrick "Sully" Sullivan, also starring Liev Schrieber and Jon Voight.

In eight episodes of Family Guy, which is set in Woods' home state of Rhode Island, he appeared as a fictional representation of himself in the episode "Homer and Apu" and "Homer and Apu." He is also the namesake for James Woods High School in Family Guy. Adam West High School was later changed to reflect Adam West High School's death, which was a character in the film. Woods has appeared in movies such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Woods appeared at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in 2012 for a restored version of Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Martin Scorsese and his Film Foundation, which digitally restored the film as well as added 40 minutes of footage, made it possible. Woods, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Connelly, and Elizabeth McGovern attended the premiere and introduced the film.

Woods appeared at the 52nd New York Film Festival (1984) at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2014.

Woods made a rare public appearance at the Writers Guild of America Awards in 2017 to honor his friend Oliver Stone, with whom he had collaborated three times (Salvador, Nixon, and Any Given Sunday), who was given the lifetime achievement award. Woods was banned from attending the wedding with host Patton Oswalt.

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