Age: 79
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James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. He is known for starring in films such as Once Upon a Time in America, Salvador, Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, Casino, and Hercules, as well as in the television legal drama Shark. He has won two Emmy Awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations. He started his career in minor roles on and off-Broadway before making his Broadway debut in The Penny Wars (1969), followed by Borstal Boy (1970), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1971) and Moonchildren (1972). Woods' early film roles include The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and The Gambler (1974). He starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep. He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for his role as journalist Richard Boyle in Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for playing white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Notable film roles include Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Immediate Family (1989), The Hard Way (1991), Chaplin (1992), The Specialist (1994), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Another Day in Paradise (1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Jobs (2013). He served as an executive producer on Christopher Nolan's biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023). For his television roles, he is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying as D.J. in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W. in the ABC film My Name Is Bill W. (1989). He has also played Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). He starred in the CBS legal series Shark (2006–2008), and had a recurring role in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013). He has voiced roles for Hercules (1997), Recess: School's Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and Surf's Up (2007), as well as voicing himself once in The Simpsons (1993), and several times in Family Guy (2005–2016).
James Woods
Mitch Sandman
for Mitch Sandman in Everything Happens For A Reason
Suggested by jakubduda
Matt watch parents break up again. He is confused cause he believes in true love. He gets to headquarters of destiny and sees parents if they never met, they live a happy life. He wants to change the past so they don't meet, but he wouldn't exist. He choosin to live or die for the happiness of his family. Decides to change past. He is interrupted by God who tells him that he didn't see the whole thing, it looks like they would be happier, but that's fate, it's given, things happen the way they're supposed to, everything that happened and will, makes sense, if you don't see it, it's because you haven't seen it as a whole. They travel through lives of family members. God: I am proud of you son, I am proud of who you are and that you wanted to die for your loved ones because the most important thing is to love them and do more for them than for yourself, take care, make them happy. I showed you their lives, now you know that there isnt only happiness, every life has problems, but these problems are important to make the person that they must be. Son, I am almighty, but sometimes I can't change your situation because I want to change you. You wanted to die for your family, you love them, would you trade your life? Well, I love my life, said the boy. God showed him the moments of his life and of family. He saw everyone happy. But true love? Exists, it is destiny to find it and it could be on every corner. Parents? It was their true love and always will, they know it and will again
