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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
CARNAGE
for CARNAGE in SPIDER-MAN AND THE SYMBIOTES or SPIDER-MAN AND VENOM
Suggested by enzotakerian
I'm not sure if it should be a live action or animated movie or TV show. Based on elements from Marvel Comics, some of the movies and TV shows and videos games. Peter Parker asks, "Will you marry me?" to MJ Watson, and she says "Yes!" For the next few months, while preparing for the wedding, Peter goes through major peril involving some alien goo. He discovers an asteroid in the park, a black goo comes out of it, and it actually JUMPS onto him! Everything goes black and then he wakes up wearing a black Spider-Man suit. It makes him feel more alive than ever. But overtime, his mind gets corrupted, which makes MJ want to call off the engagement, but aside from that, more asteroids land on Earth and those exposed to the goo end up turning into shrieking monsters. A prisoner named Cletus Cassidy gets exposed to some red goo, and his new monster self helps him escape and is assembling other monsters to plot world domination. After the first half of the movie, Spider-Man and rival reporter Eddie Brock argue over who's the hero, the black goo comes off, exposing Peter's identity to Brock, and ends up on Brock's body. The Symbiote introduces himself as Venom and they fight. Venom gets away and meets up with Cletus, now named Carnage. Overtime, Venom decides to help save the Earth and assembles Spider-Man and other Symbiote friends to stop Carnage.
