Oscar Isaac

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Biography

Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. His maternal grandfather was of French origin. 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 _The Nativity Story , as politician Nick Wasicsko in 2015, which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • Guatemala
  • Nationality
  • Guatemalan
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 09 March 1979
  • Place of birth
  • Guatemala City
  • Residence
  • Miami
  • Education
  • Juilliard School·Miami Dade College
  • Knows language
  • Spanish language

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Trivia

He was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernndez-Cano. Oscars maternal grandfather was of French origin.

Studied acting at Juilliard.

Is friends with fellow Juilliard alumna, Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain.

Worked as an orderly at the same hospital as his doctor-father.

Is a musician and singer, playing guitar. In high school he played in punk bands and later became lead singer of his own band, the Blinking Underdogs.

Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2016.

He was expelled from private grade school Westminster Christian due to various pranks and instances of misbehavior such as setting off a fire extinguisher in a gym and defacing a mural to make other kids laugh.

Isaacs family settled in the U.S. when he was five months old, and he was raised in Miami, Florida.

Lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in an apartment that he renovated himself.

Has been playing guitar since he was twelve.

Started acting in small local play in Miami at Area Stage Company. Till this day, he has a good relationship with owner and manager John Rodaz Sr. to the point that he was one of the first people whom he told that he got the part of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Likewise, John often asks Oscar for his input in any plays that he is producing and thus tends to get a thank you credit in the playbill.

He was an avid fan and collector of X-Men comics growing up. He would later play the titular villain in X-Men: Apocalypse.

In a relationship with director Elvira Lind as of 2012.

In April 2017, he became a father for the first time, to a baby boy, at age 38. Childs mother is his partner Elvira Lind.

Quotes

[re 1960s Greenwich Village music scene]People hated each other. In,Washington Square Park, it was amazing because there was all this,music, but the drummers hated the bluegrass guys, who hated the folk,guys who hated the jazz guys [fighting] over their square inches.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. .

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