The sixty two-year-old has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
He is due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
The charges follow a review of evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police.
He has been charged with two counts of sexual assault on a man, now in his forties, in London in March 2005.
Spacey is a two-time Oscar winner and has starred in films such as Seven, LA Confidential, American Beauty and Baby Driver, as well as the Netflix series House of Cards.
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