Old Vic boss and local resident Kevin Spacey delivered the annual Guy's and St Thomas' Arts Lecture at St Thomas' Hospital on Tuesday.
The audience, made of up local people, patients, staff and volunteers, was enthralled with tales from Spacey's stage and film career and his plans for The Old Vic.
Spacey returns to the stage of the world-famous Waterloo theatre this month with Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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