British prosecutors said on Thursday they had charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.
The Crown Prosecutor’s Office said Spacey “has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.”
The alleged incidents took place in London between March 2005 and August 2008, and in the west of England in April 2013.
Rosemary Ainslie, head of the service’s Special Crimes Division, said the charges follow a review of evidence gathered by the London Metropolitan Police.
Spacey, 62, was questioned by British police in 2019 about allegations by several men that he had assaulted them.
The former House of Cards star directed London’s Old Vic Theater between 2004 and 2015.
Spacey won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the 1995 film The Usual Suspects and the Best Actor for the 1999 film American Beauty.
His celebrated career was abruptly interrupted in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused the star of assaulting him at a party in the 1980s, when Rapp was a teenager.
Spacey denies the allegations and is currently trying to get Rapp’s sexual abuse lawsuit in New York removed.
In 2019, Massachusetts prosecutors dismissed a criminal case filed against him, indecent assault and a battery charge stemming from the alleged palpitations of an 18-year-old man in a Nantucket complex.