Armand Douglas Armie Hammer was born on August 28, 1986 and is an American actor.
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Armand Douglas Armie Hammer was born on August 28, 1986 and is an American actor.
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Armie Hammer's first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his portrayal of the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher's biographical drama film The Social Network, for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Armie Hammer later abandoned several future projects and was dropped by his acting agency and publicist.
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Armand Douglas Armie Hammer was born on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica, California.
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Armie Hammer has a younger brother, Viktor, named after their great-granduncle Victor Hammer.
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Armie Hammer's paternal great-grandmother was the Russian-born actress and singer Baroness Olga Vadimovna "Vadina" von Root, the daughter of a tsarist general.
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Armie Hammer lived in the Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park for several years.
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Armie Hammer attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour, Cayman Islands, and Grace Christian Academy, in Grand Cayman, and later went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley.
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Armie Hammer dropped out of high school in eleventh grade to pursue an acting career.
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Armie Hammer said his parents disowned him when he decided to leave school and take up acting but have since become supportive and proud of his work.
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Armie Hammer's professional acting career began with small guest appearances in the television series Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, Reaper and Desperate Housewives.
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Armie Hammer's first leading role in film came with his portrayal of the Christian evangelist Billy Graham in Billy: The Early Years, which premiered in October 2008.
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Armie Hammer portrayed the identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, with actor Josh Pence serving as a body double during filming.
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In preparation for the film, Armie Hammer stated that he had to learn how to row on both sides of a boat in order to play the twins, who are rowing champions.
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In 2013, Armie Hammer was cast as the title role of Disney's, The Lone Ranger, alongside Johnny Depp as Tonto, in an adaptation of the radio and film serials Lone Ranger.
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In January 2016, it was revealed that since 2013, Armie Hammer was in contact with the family of the infamous drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal and secured the rights to film the life story of the cartel leader.
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Armie Hammer then had a role in the ensemble of Tom Ford's psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals, played Ord in the action film Free Fire, which was written and directed by Ben Wheatley, and played U S Marine Mike Stevens, in Mine.
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In 2017, Armie Hammer starred as Oliver in Call Me by Your Name, starring opposite Timothee Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg.
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In 2018, Armie Hammer co-starred in Boots Riley's dark comedy Sorry to Bother You alongside Lakeith Stanfield, Steven Yeun, and Tessa Thompson.
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In June 2018, Armie Hammer led as Drew in Straight White Men at Second Stage Theater on Broadway.
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In 2019, Armie Hammer starred in Babak Anvari's psychological horror film Wounds along with Dakota Johnson.
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Armie Hammer was part of an ensemble cast in director Kenneth Branagh's 2022 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
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In 2011, Armie Hammer was arrested at a United States Border Patrol checkpoint in West Texas after marijuana was discovered in his car.
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In 2013, Armie Hammer said the arrest "was a misunderstanding of laws and interstate laws versus state laws and apparently federal laws supersede state laws.
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In 2022, Armie Hammer was living in the Cayman Islands to be near Chambers and their children; he was said to have a job selling timeshares, after a previous stint working as a manager for an apartment complex.
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Armie Hammer denied the messages were real, and called them an online attack.
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An attorney for Armie Hammer stated: "These assertions about Mr Armie Hammer are patently untrue.
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Armie Hammer subsequently dropped out of the upcoming film Shotgun Wedding.
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Armie Hammer later dropped out of his leading role in the Paramount+ drama series The Offer, stepped away from the Starz series Gaslit and the Broadway play The Minutes, and was removed from Billion Dollar Spy.
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