Oscar Isaac
☼ Born on9 janeiro 1979, in Guatemala City, Guatemala
Biography:
Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2005.
Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film O Nascimento de Cristo (2006). He also had a small role in A Hora dos Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Guerrilla (2011). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Lei & Ordem: Intenções Criminosas (2001). He also had a part in the movies Sem Medo de Morrer (2007); O Corpo da Mentira (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Cr
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owe; Ágora (2009), alongside Rachel Weisz; and the Australian film Balibo (2009), where he played José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, set amid the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975; Isaac won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role.
In 2013, Oscar starred in the Coen Brothers' folk music-themed comedy-drama, A Propósito de Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He subsequently starred in the crime drama Um Ano Muito Violento (2014) and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2014), and appeared in the Star Wars films Star Wars: Episódio VII - O Despertar da Força (2015) and Star Wars: Episódio VIII - Os Últimos Jedi (2017), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalipse (2016), as the mutant supervillain Apocalypse. He has also headlined the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015), as politician Nick Wasicsko in 2015, which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film.
He has two sons with his wife, Danish director Elvira Lind. He is also long-time friends with Operação Fronteira (2019) co-star Pedro Pascal.
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