Spacey's career has spanned thirty years across film, television, video games and theater. He got his film career started in the late 1980s after small parts in Mike Nichols' films "Heartburn" (1986) and "Working Girl" (1988). In the 90s he had supporting roles in films such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1992) opposite Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino and the black comedy film "The Ref", before being cast in the role of Roger "Verbal" Kint in 1995's "The Usual Suspects", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. That same year he played serial killer John Doe in "Se7en" opposite Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. He went on to star in noir crime drama "L.A. Confidential" (1997) alongside Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce, Clint Eastwood's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (1997), and "American Beauty" (1999), for which he earned his second Academy Award, this time for Best Actor.