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Oscar Isaac(I)

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Oscar Isaac at an event for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
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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 The Nativity Story (2006). He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Guerrilla (2011). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Agora (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, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He subsequently starred in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014) and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2014), and appeared in the Star Wars films Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (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 Triple Frontier (2019) co-star Pedro Pascal.
BornMarch 9, 1979
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy

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'Life Itself' Cast on Why Everyone Loves Dan Fogelman

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Oscar Isaac in Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Saturday Night Live (1975)
Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar Isaac in Dune (2021)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac and Karim El Hakim in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)
Oscar Isaac in Moon Knight (2022)

Known for

Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina (2014)
Ex Machina
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  • Nathan
  • 2014
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis
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  • Llewyn Davis
  • 2013
Albert Brooks, Alessandro Nivola, David Oyelowo, Oscar Isaac, and Jessica Chastain in A Most Violent Year (2014)
A Most Violent Year
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  • Abel Morales
  • 2014
Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Brian Herring, Domhnall Gleeson, Florian Robin, Jimmy Vee, Dave Chapman, David R. Grant, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega, James Cox, Kelly Marie Tran, Daisy Ridley, and Joonas Suotamo in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
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  • Poe Dameron
  • 2017

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Actor

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    • (voice)
    • Post-production
  • Metal Gear Solid
    • Pre-production
  • London
    • Pre-production
  • Francis and the Godfather
    • Pre-production
  • Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac in Case 63 (2022)
    Case 63
  • Ethan Hawke, F. Murray Abraham, Oscar Isaac, Antonia Salib, May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, Saba Mubarak, and Sofia Danu in Moon Knight (2022)
    Moon Knight
    • ...
  • Big Gold Brick (2022)
    Big Gold Brick
  • Charlize Theron, Snoop Dogg, Conrad Vernon, Oscar Isaac, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, and Javon 'Wanna' Walton in The Addams Family 2 (2021)
    The Addams Family 2
    • (voice)
  • Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
    Scenes from a Marriage
  • Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, and Zendaya in Dune (2021)
    Dune
  • Oscar Isaac in The Card Counter (2021)
    The Card Counter
  • Oscar Isaac in The Letter Room (2020)
    The Letter Room
  • Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Keri Russell, J.J. Abrams, Lynn Robertson Bruce, Hassan Taj, Oscar Isaac, Brian Herring, Jimmy Vee, Dave Chapman, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Robin Guiver, Daisy Ridley, Lee Towersey, Joonas Suotamo, and Naomi Ackie in Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
    Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
  • Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (2019)
    Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
  • Charlize Theron, Bette Midler, Snoop Dogg, Conrad Vernon, Oscar Isaac, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, and Finn Wolfhard in The Addams Family (2019)
    The Addams Family
    • (voice)
  • Ben Affleck, Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, and Garrett Hedlund in Triple Frontier (2019)
    Triple Frontier
  • Suzie McGrath, Christopher Sean, Josh Brener, and Myrna Velasco in Star Wars Resistance (2018)
    Star Wars Resistance
    • (voice)
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
    • (voice)
  • Antonio Banderas, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, and Olivia Cooke in Life Itself (2018)
    Life Itself

Producer

  • London
    • Pre-production
  • Ethan Hawke, F. Murray Abraham, Oscar Isaac, Antonia Salib, May Calamawy, Karim El Hakim, Saba Mubarak, and Sofia Danu in Moon Knight (2022)
    Moon Knight
  • Big Gold Brick (2022)
    Big Gold Brick
  • Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
    Scenes from a Marriage
  • Oscar Isaac in The Letter Room (2020)
    The Letter Room
  • Operation Finale (2018)
    Operation Finale
    • (produced by, p.g.a.)
  • Oscar Isaac in Lightningface (2016)
    Lightningface

Soundtrack

  • Double Toasted (2013)
    Double Toasted
  • Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
    • (uncredited)
  • Oscar Isaac and Garrett Hedlund in Mojave (2015)
    Mojave
  • Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
    Inside Llewyn Davis
  • Won't Back Down (2012)
    Won't Back Down
  • 10 Years (2011)
    10 Years
  • Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, and Daniel Bristol in Sucker Punch (2011)
    Sucker Punch
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Ethan Hawke Inspired by Paul Schrader for Grim Opening Ritual of "Moon Knight"
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Ethan Hawke Inspired by Paul Schrader for Grim Opening Ritual of "Moon Knight"
What Sets "Moon Knight" Apart from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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What Sets "Moon Knight" Apart from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Oscar Isaac | Career Retrospective
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Oscar Isaac | Career Retrospective
Casting the Spider-Verse Sequel
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Casting the Spider-Verse Sequel
Oscar Isaac as the Pool Boy in 'Embarrassing' First Credit
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Oscar Isaac as the Pool Boy in 'Embarrassing' First Credit
What We Know About 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' ... So Far
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What We Know About 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' ... So Far
IMDbrief: What You Missed in the 'Spider-Verse'
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IMDbrief: What You Missed in the 'Spider-Verse'
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Clip: "Dylan"
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IMDb Asks Oscar Isaac: What's Your First Movie in a Movie Theater?
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IMDb Asks Oscar Isaac: What's Your First Movie in a Movie Theater?
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The Promise
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The Promise

Personal details

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    • March 9, 1979
    • Guatemala City, Guatemala
    • Elvira LindMarch 2017 - present (2 children)
  • Other works
    Plays Proteus in "Two Gentlemen of Verona" musical by John Guare and Galt MacDermot, based on the play by William Shakespeare (Delacorte Theater, New York City, New York, USA).
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    • 2 Interviews
    • 11 Articles
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    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.
  • Quotes
    [on modeling his title character in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) persona] For the character I thought a lot about the comedy of resilience. Buster Keaton was someone that came to mind. He had quite an impassive face with a melancholic stare on it. All of these crazy things could be happening - he could be falling in love or a building could be falling on him, but it was all internalized.
    • Dune
      (2021)
      $400,000

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