James Woods is an American actor born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, who grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before turning to acting. Known for fast talking, intense roles on screen and stage, he made his Broadway debut in The Penny Wars in 1969. He rose to prominence in the NBC miniseries Holocaust and in The Onion Field, and his films include Videodrome, Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Casino, Nixon and Contact. He earned Academy Award nominations for Salvador and for Ghosts of Mississippi. On television he won Primetime Emmy Awards for Promise and My Name Is Bill W., and he has also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn and starred in the series Shark. He has voiced characters in animated films and in The Simpsons and Family Guy.
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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947)
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Known for fast-talking, intense roles on screen and stage
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he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for portraying a man with schizophrenia
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including three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award
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is an American actor
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His early films roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and The Gambler (1974)
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On television, he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for portraying a man with schizophrenia in the CBS movie Promise (1986)
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