James Woods Children: Does James Woods Have Kids?

Publish date: 2024-05-07

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

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

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Woods was raised in Warwick, Rhode Island, and graduated in 1965 from Pilgrim High School there. He was raised Catholic, with some Irish ancestry, and temporarily worked as an altar boy.

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

He joined the student theater company Dramashop, where he participated in several productions as an actor and director, and he made a vow to the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. One semester before graduating from MIT in 1969, he left to pursue a career in acting.

Woods has stated that Tim Affleck, stage manager at the Theatre Company of Boston where Woods was a student and the father of stars Ben and Casey Affleck, is to thank for his acting career.

James Woods career

Woods has been in a number of stage, screen, and television projects. He began his acting career in little parts both on and off Broadway. Alongside Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty, he made an appearance in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine on Broadway in 1972.

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

He played small roles in movies like Sydney Pollack’s The Way We Were and Arthur Penn’s Night Moves after making his film debut in Elia Kazan’s The Visitors (1975).

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

In television movies, he has played memorable characters like Bill W. in My Name Is Bill W. (1989) and Rudy Giuliani in Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story. As Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail, he experienced a professional renaissance in 2011.

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

Two Academy Award nominations have been made for Woods: the first is for Best Actor for his performance in Oliver Stone’s 1986 film Salvador and the second is for Best Supporting Actor for Rob Reiner’s Ghosts of Mississippi (1996).

For the television movies Promise (1987) and My Name Is Bill W, he has received two Primetime Emmy Awards (1989). Additionally, Woods has been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Does James Woods have any children?

As of the time of filing this report, James Woods is not known to have any children. Even though he has been married twice, he never had kids with any of his ex-wives.

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