Armie Hammer
- Actor
- Producer
Armand Douglas Hammer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Dru Ann (Mobley) and Michael Armand Hammer, a businessman. His great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, was a prominent tycoon and philanthropist who ran the company Occidental Petroleum for many decades. Armie's ancestry includes Russian-Jewish, English, Scots-Irish, and German. He has a younger brother, Viktor Hammer (Armie and Viktor share the same first names as their great-grandfather and his brother). His father is chairman and CEO of the Armand Hammer Foundation, where his mother is a board member. His parents also serve together on the boards of the Los Angeles Dream Center and Knoedler & Hammer Galleries in New York. In addition, his father is a member of the board of trustees for Oral Roberts University, and his mother, a former bank loan officer, teaches Bible study in Los Angeles.
His family moved to Dallas, Texas, when he was approaching school age. They moved to the Cayman Islands in 1993, where they stayed for 5 years. While here, Armie attended the Grace Christian Academy, a school that his father set up. They returned to Los Angeles when Armie was thirteen. He attended L.A. Baptist High School and Calvary Junior High School. He made his stage debut playing "Rooster Hannigan" in a 6th-grade production of "Annie". He left school in the 11th grade so that he could pursue acting. His parents were keen for him to continue his studies, so he took courses at Pasadena City College and UCLA.
He had various small parts, before being cast as Billy Graham in Billy: The Early Years (2008). His breakthrough role came when he played the "Winklevoss Twins" in Mạng Xã Hội (2010), in a dual role. He has since played "Clyde Tolson" in Quyền Lực Tuyệt Đối (2011), "Prince Alcott" in Gương Kia Ngự Ở Trên Tường (2012), and starred in the title role, John Reid, in the 2013 version of Kỵ Sĩ Cô Độc (2013), opposite Johnny Depp as Tonto.
In 2015, Hammer starred with Henry Cavill in the spy thriller Tổ Chức Bóng Đêm U.N.C.L.E. (2015), playing Russian spy Illya Kuryakin and American agent Napoleon Solo, respectively. His 2016 films include the historical drama Giải Phóng (2016), the thrillers Kẻ Săn Đêm (2016) and Mine (2016), and the crime drama Trò Chơi Sống Còn (2016). In 2017, he voiced Jackson Storm in the CGI sequel Vương Quốc Xe Hơi 3 (2017), and starred as Oliver, an American scholar, in the drama Gọi Em Bằng Tên Anh (2017), opposite Timothée Chalamet. For the role, Armie received his first Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2018, he played David in the drama Khách Sạn Mumbai: Thảm Sát Kinh Hoàng (2018), and starred as real life taxation law expert Martin D. Ginsburg in Quyền Bình Đẳng (2018), a biopic of Martin's wife, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. More recently, he headlined the unusual horror film Wounds (2019) and was Maxim de Winter in the drama-thriller Nàng Rebecca (2020).
Armie was married to actress, model, and television personality Elizabeth Chambers in 2010. They announced their divorce in July 2020. They have two children, a boy and a girl.
His family moved to Dallas, Texas, when he was approaching school age. They moved to the Cayman Islands in 1993, where they stayed for 5 years. While here, Armie attended the Grace Christian Academy, a school that his father set up. They returned to Los Angeles when Armie was thirteen. He attended L.A. Baptist High School and Calvary Junior High School. He made his stage debut playing "Rooster Hannigan" in a 6th-grade production of "Annie". He left school in the 11th grade so that he could pursue acting. His parents were keen for him to continue his studies, so he took courses at Pasadena City College and UCLA.
He had various small parts, before being cast as Billy Graham in Billy: The Early Years (2008). His breakthrough role came when he played the "Winklevoss Twins" in Mạng Xã Hội (2010), in a dual role. He has since played "Clyde Tolson" in Quyền Lực Tuyệt Đối (2011), "Prince Alcott" in Gương Kia Ngự Ở Trên Tường (2012), and starred in the title role, John Reid, in the 2013 version of Kỵ Sĩ Cô Độc (2013), opposite Johnny Depp as Tonto.
In 2015, Hammer starred with Henry Cavill in the spy thriller Tổ Chức Bóng Đêm U.N.C.L.E. (2015), playing Russian spy Illya Kuryakin and American agent Napoleon Solo, respectively. His 2016 films include the historical drama Giải Phóng (2016), the thrillers Kẻ Săn Đêm (2016) and Mine (2016), and the crime drama Trò Chơi Sống Còn (2016). In 2017, he voiced Jackson Storm in the CGI sequel Vương Quốc Xe Hơi 3 (2017), and starred as Oliver, an American scholar, in the drama Gọi Em Bằng Tên Anh (2017), opposite Timothée Chalamet. For the role, Armie received his first Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2018, he played David in the drama Khách Sạn Mumbai: Thảm Sát Kinh Hoàng (2018), and starred as real life taxation law expert Martin D. Ginsburg in Quyền Bình Đẳng (2018), a biopic of Martin's wife, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. More recently, he headlined the unusual horror film Wounds (2019) and was Maxim de Winter in the drama-thriller Nàng Rebecca (2020).
Armie was married to actress, model, and television personality Elizabeth Chambers in 2010. They announced their divorce in July 2020. They have two children, a boy and a girl.