James Woods
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April 18, 1947
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James Woods Bio
James Woods was born in Vernal, Utah, United States. He was born on April 14, 1947. He was the son of a military man and so had to live in four states and the island of Guam. He won a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a degree in Political Science before pursuing a professional acting career in New York.
While studying in M.I.T he appeared in numerous plays. Woods debuted on Broadway in 1970 appearing in Borstal Boy. He made his first television appearance in 1971 in the movie All the Way Home and in the next year he starred in Elia Kazan’s thriller The Visitor. He played a little part in the 1973 movie The Way We Were. His big break came in 1979 when he played a remorseless, vicious cop in the thriller The Onion Field.
Woods earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his brilliant portrayal of an American journalist in the 1986 Oliver Stone’s Salvador. In 1989 he won an Emmy for his starring as Bill Wilson in My Name Is Bill W.
