James Woods

Updated 2008/2009
James Woods has always been a popular and highly distinguished actor of Hollywood. Loved not only by the people even his competitors speak highly of him. He has been a consistent performer in more than 70 big screen movies, mini series and television serials. He has been a heart throb of Americans and one of the most versatile and fine actors Hollywood has ever produced.

He also has 3 Emmy awards to his credit, out of which two are for the Best Actor in Motion Pictures for “Promise” and “My name is Bill W”. He was considered twice for an Academy Award: first time was in 1987 for Best Actor in “Salvador” and second time in 1996 for Best Supporting Actor in “Ghosts of Mississippi”. Before he came down to become a leading film star he had awards like Golden Globe award, the Obie award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World award on New York stage. He got nominated 10 times for the Golden Globe awards and the Cable Ace award. He also won the American TV critics Award and the Golden satellite awards twice.

He performed the role of a villain and held the audience with a storm in the movie “The Onion Field”. There are several of his other movies which gained him recognition and honor like \\\"Once Upon A Time In America,\\\" \\\"Against All Odds,\\\" \\\"Videodrome,\\\" \\\"Casino\\\" and \\\"True Believer.\\\" He also holds recognition of working with the best directors of all times like Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood, Harold Becker, Rob Reiner, Sophia Coppola and Robert Zemeckis. One of the very important quality in this actor was he could bring life to the character and role he used to play. He could be easily compared with top stars from Roy Cohn to Rudy Giuliani.

He had tremendous liking for the game of Poker. He finished 24th out of 692 players at the L.A. Poker Classic and won prize money of $40,000. He also happens to share and endorse the Online Poker website, Hollywood Poker. Woods happens to have an I.Q. of 180.