Two days later, Spacey scored an audition and eventually landed the part. Spacey sauntered into the party, sat next to Miller and described his months of difficulty getting an audition. In between his two parts, Spacey earned plaudits - though he was the only cast member passed over for a Tony Award nomination - playing Jamie Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1986), a part he landed thanks to stealing a cocktail party invitation from an old woman falling asleep next to him at a lecture given by the play's director, Jonathan Miller. Nichols later gave the actor his first onscreen break as a subway rider who mugs Meryl Streep's Rachel in "Heartburn" (1986), then later cast him as a Wall Street broker in "Working Girl" (1989). After appearing in regional theater, Spacey auditioned for the national touring company of "The Real Thing," but director Mike Nichols instead suggested he try for a role in another one of his productions, "Hurlyburly." After serving as the understudy for the role of Mickey - which was played by Harvey Keitel - Spacey was the standby for two of the other male roles in the same play. It was not long until Spacey made his Broadway debut opposite Liv Ullman in "Ghosts" (1982), effectively launching his stage career.
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Other roles soon followed and Papp one day "fired" the office worker so he would be free to find employment as an actor. He soon landed the role of a soldier in the company's production of "Henry VI, Part I" (1981).
At the beginning Spacey's career was decidedly hard-fought.Spacey was doing office work at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival when the festival director saw him in an off-off-Broadway play and told him he should be acting, not pushing pencils. Spacey occasionally landed small roles on small stages, while working as a shoe salesman and a building superintendent to pay the bills.
He then followed Kilmer to the dramatic program at the Julliard School in Manhattan, where he managed to stick around for only two of the required four years. After graduating, he tried his hand at stand-up comedy, even trying out for "The Gong Show" (1975-1980), but failed to make the cut. He moved on to Chatsworth High School, where he discovered theater and acted alongside fellow classmate and future actors, Val Kilmer and Mare Winningham. Though his parents were strict, Spacey was rebellious even destructive - he burned down his sister's tree house in the backyard of his family's Malibu home and was later expelled from the Northridge Military Academy for hitting a fellow student with a tire. Born in South Orange, NJ, Spacey was raised from an early age in and around Los Angeles by his father, Thomas, an oft-unemployed technical writer, and his mother, Kathleen, a secretary.
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