He's a strange bird, but it's because of his obsessive compulsive disorder: “I rely on a certain routine,” Spader says. “It's very hard for me, you know? It makes you very addictive in behavior, because routine and ritual become entrenched. But in work, it manifests in obsessive attention to detail, and fixation.
Spader currently lives in New York City with his longtime partner, Leslie Stefanson, an actress-turned artist who he met during the 2003 movie Alien Hunter. Prior to dating Leslie, James was married to set decorator Victoria Spader, 63, whom he met while working on the set of the film, Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
(Up next: Tommy Lee Jones's The Homesman, in which he plays a red-headed swindler with a dodgy accent.) Spader spoke to us about filming his new show in New York and shaving his head for the role. It was your decision to shave your head.
Raymond Reddington is an exceptionally intelligent and highly driven individual with developed sociopathic tendencies. This appears to be the product of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) as there are no signs that he was born this way.
Shatner said his humorous and offbeat relationship with Spader was a “shotgun marriage officiated over” by creator David E. Kelley. Their on-screen chemistry comes from a genuine fondness off-screen. “He has a penchant for detail and the truth, and it's wonderful to watch him perform,” Shatner said of Spader.
James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Stargate (1994), Wolf (1994), Crash (1996), Secretary (2002), Boston Legal (2004) and The Blacklist (2013).
The production churn since then appears to be part of the reason behind the cancellation of the show, but the showrunners did not let the dead end on the horizon deter them from crafting a final season to live up to all those before it.
Some clients may be familiar with the “3 C's” which is a formalized process for doing both the above techniques (Catch it, Check it, Change it). If so, practice and encourage them to apply the 3 C's to self- stigmatizing thoughts.
Spader met his first wife, decorator Victoria Kheel, while working in a yoga studio after he moved to New York City in the 1980s. They married in 1987 and had two sons. Spader filed for divorce from Kheel in 2004. He began dating his former Alien Hunter (2003) co-star, Leslie Stefanson, in 2002.
For a long time, fans predicted that Red wasn't Liz's father - he was her mother. While the clues pointed to Red being her dad, and Liz might have died believing that was the truth, the truth is that Red was likely instead Katarina Rostova.
The iconic matador was killed by a bull, so it makes sense that Red had him in mind when he locked eyes with the animal in his his final moments — seemingly making the choice to risk his own life in that instance.
Some of his best-known roles have been in the films Pretty in Pink (1986), Wall Street (1987), and sex, lies, and videotape (1989) and in the television series Boston Legal (2004–08) and The Blacklist (2013–23).
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.
Elizabeth Keen has been portrayed by Megan Boone since 2013. Elizabeth Scott Keen (Blacklister No. 1) is an FBI profiler. According to Reddington and the FBI, her birth name is Masha Rostova, and she was born in Moscow to Katarina Rostova, a Russian intelligence agent whom everyone regards as a "myth".
Did Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner not get along?
Shatner claims Nimoy was upset with him over footage filmed for the documentary The Captains. Leonard Nimoy never spoke about his reasons for ending the long friendship he had with his co-star. Nimoy's illness may have prevented the two of them from ending their feud and reconciling before Leonard's death.
After Liz's shocking death in season 8 by a revenge-thirsty hitman, Red returned to his deal with the FBI to hunt down the criminals of the blacklist in her memory. Soon, however, the committee's operations under Harold Cooper (Harry Lenix) and Red's own criminal enterprise came into question.
He was one of the few people in the world who knew about Red's secret. This just goes to show that while Red is one to keep his cards incredibly close to his chest, Dembe usually sees the hand.
