James Woods Highlights

  • 2007: Voiced surf promoter Reggie Belafonte in the animated feature, "Surf's Up"
  • 2006: Played as an infamous defense lawyer who becomes a prosecutor in the CBS legal drama "Shark"
  • 2006: Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series for "ER"
  • 2005: Portrayed the father of a teen, (Evan Rachel Wood) who accuses her English teacher of sexual harassment in "Pretty Persuasion"; screened at Sundance
  • 2003: Starred as the Republican bulldog and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the Television feature "Rudy"; Received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
  • 2001: Replaced an ailing Marlon Brando in a cameo role as a priest performing an exorcism in "Scary Movie 2"
  • 2001: Lent voice to animated sci-fi adventure feature, "Final Fantasy: The Movie"
  • 2000: Portrayed Dennis Barrie, who as director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center booked an exhibit of images by the controversial photographer Robert Maplethorpe, in "Dirty Pictures" (Showtime)
  • 2000: Played father of five girls in Sofia Coppola's feature directorial debut, "The Virgin Suicides"
  • 2000: Contributed voice to animated series, "Clerks: The Cartoon" (ABC)
  • 1999: Reteamed with Olvier Stone for the football-themed "Any Given Sunday"
  • 1999: Portrayed the disarmingly insightful and manipulative Colonel Moore in summer military thriller, "The General's Daughter"
  • 1998: Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (October 15)
  • 1998: Reteamed with Melanie Griffith as a drug dealing, thieving couple in "Another Day in Paradise"; also produced
  • 1998: Starred as a vampire hunter in "John Carpenter's Vampires"
  • 1997: Voiced the character of Hades in Disney's animated feature "Hercules" and the subsequent ABC spin-off series
  • 1996: Turned in a remarkably nuanced portrait of a jailed murderer in the overlooked "Killer: A Journal of Murder"
  • 1996: Received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination portraying Byron de la Beckwith, the killer of Civil Rights activist Medgar Evans, in the earnest "Ghosts of Mississippi"
  • 1995: Co-starred in the Showtime special "Curse of the Starving Class", adapted from Sam Shepard's play
  • 1995: Featured as H.R. Haldeman in Stone's "Nixon"
  • 1995: Starred in the acclaimed HBO movie "Indictment: The McMartin Trial"
  • 1992: Played romantic lead opposite Dolly Parton in "Straight Talk"
  • 1992: Starred as Roy Cohn in HBO biopic "Citizen Cohn"
  • 1989: Essayed real-life lawyer Eddie Dodd in "True Believer"
  • 1989: Won second Emmy Award playing Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous in the ABC "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation "My Name Is Bill W."
  • 1988: First film as producer, "Cop"; also starred
  • 1987: Portrayed Vietnam POW James Stockdale in the NBC biography "In Love and War"
  • 1986: Co-starred with James Garner in "Promise", a CBS "Hallmark Hall of Fame" special, playing Garner's younger schizophenic brother; earned Emmy Award
  • 1986: Won critical and audience attention for "Salvador", directed by Oliver Stone; received first Oscar nomination as Best Actor
  • 1984: Offered a fine villainous turn in "Against All Odds" as rival with Jeff Bridges for Rachel Ward
  • 1982: Starred in David Cronenberg's "Videodrome"
  • 1979: Breakthrough role as unrepentant villain in "The Onion Field"
  • 1978: TV miniseries debut, "Holocaust" (NBC)
  • 1977: Acted in the ensemble of the comedy-drama "The Choirboys"
  • 1975: Initial screen collaboration with Melanie Griffith, "Night Moves", directed by Arthur Penn
  • 1973: Had small role as a pal of Barbra Streisand in "The Way We Were"
  • 1972: Film debut in Elia Kazan's "The Visitors"
  • 1971: TV-movie debut in "All the Way Home" (aired as part of NBC's "Hallmark Hall of Fame")
  • 1970: Broadway debut, "Borstal Boy"
  • Family settled in Warwick, Rhode Island
  • Moved frequently as a child due to father's military career
  • Acted in numerous plays at Harvard, at MIT and with the Theater Company of Boston before moving to New York City