1. Armand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28,1986 and is an American actor.
37 Facts About Armie Hammer
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Armie Hammer began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.
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Armie Hammer's first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years and Hammer gained wider recognition for portraying the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher's biopic The Social Network.
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Armie Hammer denied the allegations, which derailed his acting career; he abandoned several future projects and was dropped by his talent 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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Armand's father, Julius Armie Hammer, was from Odesa and was an early activist in the US Communist Party in New York.
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Armie Hammer's paternal great-grandmother was the Russian-born actress and singer Baroness Olga Vadimovna von Root, from Sevastopol, the daughter of a tsarist general.
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Armie Hammer resided in Highland Park, Texas, an affluent town in the Dallas area, for several years.
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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 later became 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 US 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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Armie Hammer then appeared as David in the thriller Hotel Mumbai, about the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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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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Armie Hammer dropped out of the film Shotgun Wedding and his leading role in the Paramount+ drama miniseries 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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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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El Paso's attorney declined to prosecute the case, as the amount of marijuana Armie Hammer had would only amount to a misdemeanor.
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In 2013, Armie Hammer said the arrest "was a misunderstanding of laws [between] 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.
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Armie Hammer held several jobs in the Cayman Islands, including selling timeshares and as a manager for an apartment complex.
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In 2024, Armie Hammer moved to Los Angeles after being refused subsequent work permits in the Cayman Islands.
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Armie Hammer later claimed to be in a "bad financial state", resulting from limited acting work following his abuse allegations and lacking access to his family's fortune.
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Armie Hammer denied the validity of the text messages, calling them an "online attack", and later claimed his legal team were unsuccessful delivering a subpoena to Meta for messaging records related to the accusations.
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Armie Hammer later apologized to the Cayman Compass, clarifying the woman he referred to in the videos was not associated with the Miss Cayman Islands beauty pageant.
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Paige Lorenze claimed Armie Hammer "branded her, purposefully left her covered in bruises, and talked about 'consuming her'".
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In May 2023, the LA County District Attorney declined to indict Armie Hammer, citing insufficient evidence.
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Armie Hammer discussed the accusations and his personal changes in interviews on Piers Morgan Uncensored in July 2024 and The Louis Theroux Podcast in February 2025.