Oscar Isaac

Actor / Producer / Soundtrack

Birthdate – March 9, 1979 (45 Years Old)

Birthplace – Guatemala City, Guatemala

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.

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Filmography

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Miguel O'Hara (2023)

The Addams Family 2

Gomez Addams (2021)

The Card Counter

William Tell (2021)

Dune (2021)

Duke Leto Atreides (2021)

The Addams Family

Gomez Addams (2019)

Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

Poe Dameron (2019)

Annihilation

Kane (2018)

Operation Finale

Peter Malkin (2018)

Life Itself

Will (2018)

At Eternity’s Gate

Paul Gauguin (2019)

Suburbicon

Bud Cooper (2017)

Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

Poe Dameron (2017)

X-Men: Apocalypse

En Sabah Nur (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse

Apocalypse (2016)

The Promise

Mikael Boghosian (2017)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

Poe Dameron (2015)

Ex Machina

Nathan (2015)

Won’t Back Down

Michael Perry (2012)

Drive

Standard (2011)

Robin Hood

Prince John (2018)

Operation Finale

(2018)