Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada was born on March 9,1979 and is an American actor.
80 Facts About Oscar Isaac
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Oscar Isaac was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020.
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Oscar Isaac's accolades include a Golden Globe Award, a National Board of Review Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Oscar Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year, the thriller Ex Machina and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse.
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Oscar Isaac became a global star with the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
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Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada was born on March 9,1979, in Guatemala City to a Guatemalan mother, Maria Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernandez-Cano, a pulmonologist.
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Oscar Isaac has an older sister, climate scientist Nicole, and a younger brother, journalist Mike.
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Oscar Isaac's family immigrated to the US when he was five months old, and they frequently moved around the country, living in Baltimore, New Orleans, and Miami, where they eventually settled.
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Oscar Isaac has French origins through his grandfather and describes himself as "a big mix of many things".
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Oscar Isaac attended the private grade school Westminster Christian School in southern Florida.
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Around age10, Oscar Isaac made a home movie called The Avenger, in which he played dual characters; he participated in school plays.
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Oscar Isaac wrote his first play in fifth grade; it was based on the Biblical story of Noah's Ark, and featured a doubtful platypus.
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Oscar Isaac found great joy at performing in front of people, which proved to be a stress relief at a time when his parents were separating and his mother became sick.
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Oscar Isaac liked his new school and formed a band with boys he met in a trailer park.
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Oscar Isaac learned music, played guitar and continued to make home movies, inspired by Quentin Tarantino's work: "action [films], with lots of blood and cars".
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Oscar Isaac attended Santaluces Community High School and graduated in 1998.
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Oscar Isaac joined a ska punk band named The Blinking Underdogs, which enjoyed some success, opening for Green Day.
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Oscar Isaac next secured parts in Joseph Adler's 2000 productions of This Is Our Youth and Side Man at GableStage.
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Unsure about his career choice, Oscar Isaac considered enlisting in the Marines at one point.
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Once he had taken the exam, Oscar Isaac said he wanted to do combat photography in military reserve, a job they did not offer.
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Oscar Isaac graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2005.
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Oscar Isaac played Romeo alongside Lauren Ambrose in the Public Theater's Romeo and Juliet.
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Michal Daniel of The Record believed that a "persuasively young and inexperienced" Oscar Isaac was overshadowed by Ambrose but had an enthusiastic speech and a passionate behavior.
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Oscar Isaac won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as Jose Ramos-Horta in Balibo.
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Oscar Isaac began the 2010s with the role of the villain King John in the film Robin Hood.
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Oscar Isaac liked playing a villain, as he said one does not worry about having to make them likable, enabling him to display more facets of his character.
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For R Kurt Osenlund, Isaac skillfully overshadowed Russell Crowe, "bringing new, magnetic venom to the done-and-done-again role".
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Oscar Isaac's profile expanded in 2011 as he gained recognition for several supporting roles.
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Oscar Isaac credited Snyder for his openness to actors' input on set.
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Oscar Isaac then portrayed a musician in 10 Years, in which he performed his own song "Never Had", and an ex-convict in Nicolas Winding Refn's critically acclaimed action drama Drive.
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Oscar Isaac instead won the brief part of a brainwashed assassin.
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Lizzie Logan of Vulture opined that "Oscar Isaac took a character with very little screen time and turned him into a living, breathing, hurting person".
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In 2013, Oscar Isaac played the titular character of a struggling folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village in the Coen brothers' musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis.
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Oscar Isaac accepted the project due to his high regard for the Coen brothers, who in turn were impressed with his musical talent.
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In preparation for the part, Oscar Isaac learned the guitar technique Travis picking and worked with musicians Erik Frandsen and T Bone Burnett.
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Oscar Isaac next starred as Laurent LeClaire, a man who seduces his friend's wife in the erotic thriller In Secret.
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In 2014, Oscar Isaac appeared in the thriller The Two Faces of January, starring alongside Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst.
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Oscar Isaac starred with Jessica Chastain in J C Chandor's A Most Violent Year, replacing actor Javier Bardem.
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When Oscar Isaac noticed that Morales's background was missing in the script, Chandor allowed him to create it, for which he researched Latin Americans' history in the 1950s and 1960s.
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In 2015, Oscar Isaac portrayed Nathan Hamlet Bateman, the reclusive inventor of a humanoid artificial intelligence, in the science fiction film Ex Machina.
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Oscar Isaac based his character's look and accent on director Stanley Kubrick and observed his speech patterns.
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Oscar Isaac modeled Bateman's personality on chess champion Bobby Fischer and played the game during filming to get "in that mode of constantly trying to be a few steps ahead".
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Oscar Isaac was approached for the role shortly after he had finished filming for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Oscar Isaac agreed after finding footage of Wasicsko interacting with the media.
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Oscar Isaac co-starred as Poe Dameron, an X-wing pilot, in the epic space opera film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Oscar Isaac suggested to Abrams that his character be from the moon Yavin 4, which first appeared in Star Wars in scenes filmed in his country Guatemala; this idea was incorporated.
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In preparation for the role, Oscar Isaac read about war, including a book called What It's Like to Go to War.
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Oscar Isaac agreed to play the titular villain in the film X-Men: Apocalypse because he was a fan of X-Men comic books since childhood.
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Oscar Isaac underwent extensive makeup and prosthetics, and wore a 40-pound suit; the full costume was uncomfortable, which forced Isaac to go to a cooling tent between takes.
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Years after Apocalypse underwhelming critical performance, Oscar Isaac commented that he wished the film and his character had been better handled.
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Outside film in 2016, Oscar Isaac narrated the Nike ad Unlimited You, and voiced a soldier trying to rejoin civilian life in the podcast series Homecoming.
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About late 2016, Oscar Isaac spent most of his time caring for his dying mother.
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In honor of his mother, who died later in February 2017, Oscar Isaac starred as Prince Hamlet in The Public Theater production of Hamlet.
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Also that year, Oscar Isaac played an insurance investigator in the black comedy Suburbicon, written by the Coen brothers who directed Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis.
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JJ Abrams originally intended to kill Dameron off in The Force Awakens, but Oscar Isaac convinced him otherwise.
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Oscar Isaac filmed Annihilation simultaneously with Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the same studio.
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Oscar Isaac debuted as a producer filming the historical drama Operation Finale, in which he played Peter Malkin, the Israeli secret agent who captured Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann in 1960.
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Oscar Isaac believed that the film's topic still remains relevant in modern times, where extreme views are deemed acceptable.
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Bhaskar Chattopadhyay of Firstpost thought Oscar Isaac was brilliant in certain scenes, but mainly highlighted the performances of the supporting actors.
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Oscar Isaac co-starred with Olivia Wilde in the box-office failure Life Itself; Caroline Siede of Consequence found the two leads unconvincing and their roles to be poorly written.
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Oscar Isaac said that filming in a favela with no water or sewage made him realize his privileged life.
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Oscar Isaac next voiced the role of Gomez Addams in The Addams Family, a computer-animated film based on the titular characters created by Charles Addams.
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For years, fans suggested Oscar Isaac be cast in the part as they claimed he resembled Raul Julia who played Gomez Addams in live-action films in the 1990s.
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Oscar Isaac's only role in 2020 was of a kindhearted prison officer in the short film The Letter Room, for which he was an executive producer.
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Roktim Rajpal of the Deccan Herald believed that Oscar Isaac "is the backbone of the short and makes an impact with his sincere performance", yet he fails to "internali[z]e the character as much as expected".
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Oscar Isaac performed in a full frontal nude scene in the series.
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Oscar Isaac was nominated for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a miniseries.
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Justin Chang of NPR lauded Oscar Isaac for "bring[ing] his usual sly, soulful magnetism to the role" and embodying his character's trauma in his "dark, haunted gaze".
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Oscar Isaac began 2022 with the black comedy Big Gold Brick in a brief role that Nick Schager of Variety found "out of left field".
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Oscar Isaac executive produced the show, which is based on Marvel Comics' namesake comic book.
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Oscar Isaac read Robert B Oxnam's book A Fractured Mind to research DID.
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The third alter, Jake Lockley, speaks Spanish as Oscar Isaac wanted to add an aspect of his own life to the role.
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Oscar Isaac was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Hero.
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In 2023, Oscar Isaac starred as the title character in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window opposite Rachel Brosnahan.
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Oscar Isaac is set to star in London, which will be directed by Ben Stiller.
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Oscar Isaac himself noted "a sense of melancholy, anger, displacement" in these characters.
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Oscar Isaac often looks for "the comic in the dramatic and the dramatic in the comic and where those things meet and the brackish waters in between".
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In 2017, Oscar Isaac became "debatably" the first Latino actor to play Hamlet in a major US production.
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Oscar Isaac is indifferent to his celebrity status and remains close with his family.
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Oscar Isaac first met Danish film director Elvira Lind in 2012; they married in 2017.