Alan Shore is a fictional character on the television series Boston Legal, played by James Spader. The character first appeared in the final season of The Practice. Alan is one of the main characters in Boston Legal. Spader won multiple Emmy awards in both series for the character.
Alan was born in 1962 in Dedham, Massachusetts. He is of Scottish descent; his great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1903. Alan's childhood...
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Alan Shore is a fictional character on the television series Boston Legal, played by James Spader. The character first appeared in the final season of The Practice. Alan is one of the main characters in Boston Legal. Spader won multiple Emmy awards in both series for the character.
Alan was born in 1962 in Dedham, Massachusetts. He is of Scottish descent; his great-grandfather emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1903. Alan's childhood friends included Paul Stewart (whom he first met in kindergarten) and Tom Dougan (who later became a priest). Alan slept with Paul's mother when he was 16; he lost his virginity at age 14 to a friend of his mother. One of his neighbors was Catherine Piper, his future secretary. According to one of his courtroom speeches, Alan has a sister. At one point in his life, he had to seek the help of a sex surrogate named Joanna to help him deal with perhaps his most shocking paraphilia: an attraction of sorts to his mother, and the way she touched...
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