James Woods

Acting · Born 1947-04-18 · Vernal, Utah, USA

Biography

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.

Known for

• Eddington (2025)
• A Journey to Sundance (2023)
• Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
• First Contact (2016)
• Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
• Jamesy Boy (2014)
• Officer Down (2013)
• Jobs (2013)
• White House Down (2013)
• Mary and Martha (2013)
• Any Given Tuesday (2013)
• Straw Dogs (2011)
• Too Big to Fail (2011)
• An American Carol (2008)
• End Game (2006)
• Free as a Dog (2006)
• Be Cool (2005)
• Buddy (2005)
• Pretty Persuasion (2005)
• This Girl's Life (2004)
• Videodrome: Forging the New Flesh (2004)
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
• Northfork (2003)
• Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003)