American child actor James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947, in Vernal, Utah, United States of America.

Woods was born to Gail Peyton Woods and Martha A. Smith. He has the same parents as his younger brother Michael Jeffery Woods.

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Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, and graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965. He was raised Catholic, had Irish ancestry, and worked for a time as an altar boy.

Woods attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an undergraduate. He said his first goal was to become an eye surgeon on Inside the Actors Studio.

He joined the student theater troupe Dramashop, where he participated in several productions as an actor and director, and took his vows with the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. A semester before graduating from MIT in 1969, he left MIT to pursue a career in acting.

Woods said he owes his acting career to Tim Affleck, a stage manager at the Theater Company in Boston, where Woods was a student and father of stars Ben and Casey Affleck.

James Wood’s career

Woods has been involved in numerous stage, film and television projects. He began his acting career with small roles on and off Broadway. He appeared on Broadway in 1972 in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine alongside Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty.

His big break in television came in 1978 when he co-starred with Meryl Streep in the four-part miniseries about the Holocaust, which was well received and won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series .

After his film debut in Elia Kazan’s The Visitors (1975), he played small roles in films such as Sydney Pollack’s The Way We Were and Arthur Penn’s Night Moves.

He received praise for his portrayal of Gregory Powell, the protagonist of the murder thriller “The Onion Field” in 1979. Over the next two decades, Woods continued to work with filmmakers including Martin Scorsese (Casino), Oliver Stone ( Salvador and Nixon). , Richard Attenborough (Chaplin), David Cronenberg (Vidéodrome) and Rob Reiner (Ghosts of the Mississippi).

In television films, he played unforgettable characters such as Bill W. in “My Name Is Bill W.” (1989) and Rudy Giuliani in “Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story.” He experienced a professional renaissance in 2011 as Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail.

He has also appeared in animated films, such as Hades in Disney’s Hercules and the television series Shark (2006–2008).

Woods received two Academy Award nominations: the first for Best Actor for his performance in Oliver Stone’s 1986 film “Salvador” and the second for Best Supporting Actor for Rob Reiner’s “Ghosts of the Mississippi.” (1996).

He received two Primetime Emmy Awards (1989) for the television films Promise (1987) and My Name Is Bill W. Additionally, Woods was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Does James Woods have children?

At the time of filing this report, James Woods was not known to have children. Although he was married twice, he did not have children with any of his ex-wives.