Check out the most anticipated movies and shows premiering during the summer season, from [i]Ballerina[/i] to [i]Thunderbolts*[/i].

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Check out the most anticipated movies and shows premiering during the summer season, from <em>Ballerina</em> to <em>Thunderbolts*</em>.

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James Spader and Michael Gross in Boston Legal (2004)

James Spader and Megan Mullally in Boston Legal (2004)

Candice Bergen and James Spader in Boston Legal (2004)

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William Shatner and James Spader in Boston Legal (2004)

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James Spader and Jamie Jackson in The Blacklist (2013)

Brooke Shields, James Spader, and Martin Hewitt in Endless Love (1981)

James Spader and Deborah Kara Unger in Crash (1996)

Molly Ringwald and James Spader in Pretty in Pink (1986)

James Spader and K. Todd Freeman in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader and Stacy Keach in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader in The Pentagon Papers (2003)

James Spader and Lake Bell in Boston Legal (2004)

James Spader and Walton Goggins in Lincoln (2012)

James Spader, David Strathairn, and John Hawkes in Lincoln (2012)

James Spader, John Hawkes, and Tim Blake Nelson in Lincoln (2012)

James Spader and Robert Peters in Lincoln (2012)

James Spader in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

James Spader and Stephen Colbert in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

James Spader and Hisham Tawfiq in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader and Evan Parke in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader and C. Thomas Howell in The Blacklist (2013)

Martha Plimpton and James Spader in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader, Hisham Tawfiq, and Megan Boone in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader, Tamara Anderson, and Tamara Della Anderson in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader, Lenny Venito, and Hisham Tawfiq in The Blacklist (2013)

James Spader, Kevin Mambo, Lenny Venito, and Hisham Tawfiq in The Blacklist (2013)

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 Sellars; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga before landing his first roles. Spader's first major film role was as Brooke Shields' brother in the romance drama Endless Love (1981). Spader graduated from television movies to Brat Pack films, playing the scoundrel. In Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), he played a sexual voyeur who complicates the lives of three Baton Rouge residents. This performance earned him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and led to bigger and more varied 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 Actor Guild Award Best Actor nominations for reprising this role.

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