He stated on Inside the Actors Studio that he originally intended to become an eye surgeon. Woods was an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is of part Irish descent and was raised Catholic, briefly serving as an altar boy. Woods grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Pilgrim High School, from which he graduated in 1965. ( née Smith), ran a pre-school after her husband's death and later married Thomas E.

His father, Gail Peyton Woods, was an army intelligence officer who died in 1960 after routine surgery. Woods was born on April 18, 1947, in Vernal, Utah, and had a brother ten years younger. He has provided voice roles for films such as Hercules (1997), Recess: School's Out (2001), Stuart Little 2 (2002), and Surf's Up (2007), as well as voicing himself several times on Family Guy (2005-present). 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 also portrayed Roy Cohn in Citizen Cohn (1992) and Dick Fuld in Too Big to Fail (2011). in the CBS movie Promise (1987) and Bill W.

He is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his roles as D.J. He served as an executive producer on the Christopher Nolan biographical drama film Oppenheimer (2023). Notable film roles include in Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Nixon (1995), Chaplin (1992), Casino (1995), Contact (1997), Vampires (1998), Any Given Sunday (1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999). He earned two Academy Awards nominations: one for Best Actor for Salvador (1986) and for Best Supporting Actor for Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). He rose to prominence portraying Gregory Powell in The Onion Field (1979). He starred in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) opposite Meryl Streep. Woods' early film roles include in The Visitors (1972), The Way We Were (1973) and Night Moves (1975). 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). He received numerous accolades including three Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is known for fast-talking intense roles on stage and screen. James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor.

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