Actor: James Spader

James Spader won Best Actor at Cannes for sex, lies, and videotape, playing a man whose sexual dysfunction is the film’s subject, and he spent the following decade in similarly uncomfortable material.

Crash and Secretary continued it, both films that studios would now be unlikely to finance.

Stargate and Wolf gave him commercial work, and The Blacklist gave him a long television lead. He voiced Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron, using motion capture for the face.