Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler is an Academy Award-winning actor who has been accused of sexually harassing and assaulting several men and boys, some as young as 14.

Spacey was born and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Thomas and Kathleen Fowler. He started using his grandmother's maiden name, Spacey, when he became an actor. According to his older brother, Randy Fowler, their father was physically and sexually abusive, and Spacey shut down emotionally to avoid whippings.

Spacey began acting in high school, and briefly studied theater at Juilliard. He began a successful career on Broadway in 1981, and won a Tony in 1991 for his performance in Lost in Yonkers. He then branched out to TV and film, specializing (ironically) in playing villains and psychopaths. He won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1995 for his performance as enigmatic criminal Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects, and a Best Actor oscar in 1999 for his performance as Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father who lusts after his teenage daughter's best friend, in ''American Beauty. From 2011-2017, he played corrupt politician Frank Underwood in the Netflix series House of Cards'', for which he was critically acclaimed.

In 2017, actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexually assaulting him in 1986, when he was 14. Following that, dozens of other men came forward accusing Spacey of sexually harassing and assaulting them, including one anonymous man who claimed that Spacey had molested and attempted to rape him in 1984, when the man was 14. Spacey was immediately fired from House of Cards, his upcoming movie Gore was shelved, and he was let go by his agent and talent agency.