Oscar Isaac(I)
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
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 Luật Pháp Và Trật Tự: Mục Đích Tội Phạm (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Điệp Vụ Cá Đuối (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Đường Tròn (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, Hành Trình Của Đam Mê (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He subsequently starred in the crime drama Năm Bạo Lực Nhất (2014) and the science fiction thriller Người Máy Trỗi Dậy (2014), and appeared in the Star Wars films Chiến Tranh Giữa Các Vì Sao Tập 7: Thần Lực Thức Tỉnh (2015) and Star Wars: Jedi Cuối Cùng (2017), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Cuộc Chiến Chống Apocalyspe (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 Băng Cướp Bất Đắc Dĩ (2019) co-star Pedro Pascal.
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 Luật Pháp Và Trật Tự: Mục Đích Tội Phạm (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Điệp Vụ Cá Đuối (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Đường Tròn (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, Hành Trình Của Đam Mê (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He subsequently starred in the crime drama Năm Bạo Lực Nhất (2014) and the science fiction thriller Người Máy Trỗi Dậy (2014), and appeared in the Star Wars films Chiến Tranh Giữa Các Vì Sao Tập 7: Thần Lực Thức Tỉnh (2015) and Star Wars: Jedi Cuối Cùng (2017), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Cuộc Chiến Chống Apocalyspe (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 Băng Cướp Bất Đắc Dĩ (2019) co-star Pedro Pascal.