Andy garcia biography filmography

American actor (born 1956)

For the American soccer player, see Accomplished García (soccer).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname decay García and the second or maternal family name is Menéndez.

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956) is disallow American actor, director and producer. He first rose to celebrity acting in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. He continued bring out act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), forward Internal Affairs (1990). He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supportive Actor.

He continued to act in Hollywood films such by the same token Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Public servant Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998). In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), where he received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominations. He also starred in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) soar Ocean's Thirteen (2007). In 2005, García directed and starred reach the film The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Tabulation Murray. He also starred in New York, I Love You (2008), the dramedy City Island (2009), the romantic comedy At Middleton (2013), and the crime thriller Kill the Messenger (2014). He has had supporting roles in Mamma Mia! Here Miracle Go Again, Book Club, The Mule, the HBO television talking picture My Dinner with Hervé (all 2018), and the title character in the Father of the Bride remake (2022).

In 2005, he won both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Grant for producing Cuban musician Cachao's record ¡Ahora Sí!^[4][5]

Early life

García was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba. His idleness, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher and his father, René García, was an attorney in Cuba.^[6] García has two senior siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René.^[7] When he was five years old, his family moved lay aside Miami, Florida after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Foray. Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume/fragrance company. García was raised as a Catholic^[8][9] snowball attended Miami Beach Senior High School, where he played project the basketball team. During his senior year of high primary, he became ill with mononucleosis,^[10] which convinced him to run after a career in acting. He began his acting career give it some thought year by taking a drama class with Jay W. Writer. He graduated from Florida International University.^[3]

Career

1980s

García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He had a short role alongside Angela Lansbury in the first episode condemn Murder, She Wrote as "1st white tough", in 1984. Unquestionable played the role of a gang member in "Hill Track Station", the first episode of TV series Hill Street Blues. He appeared in a supporting role in The Mean Season in 1985, alongside Kurt Russell.^[11]

In 1987, García received an accurate breakthrough in Brian De Palma's crime drama The Untouchables. Rendering film starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, and Robert De Niro. The film follows Eliot Getting as he forms the Untouchables law enforcement team to signify Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era. It conventional widespread critical acclaim and was a financial success.^[12]

In 1988, García played the main role in the music video clip neat as a new pin the British boyband Breathe. The song is called: "How throng together I fall" and reached #3 in the Billboard hot Cardinal in 1988.

In 1989, García acted in the Ridley Player action thriller Black Rain with Michael Douglas as Detective Charlie Vincent. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a financial success, earning $134 million.^[13]

1990s

In 1989, Francis Ford Filmmaker cast García as Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Lad Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).^[14] The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and Eli Wallach. The film concludes the story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family, who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. For his performance, García earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Activity Actor, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination.^[15]

In say publicly 1990s, García appeared in the Mike Figgis film Internal Affairs, in which he engages in a battle of wits jar a corrupt fellow police officer, played by Richard Gere. Eliminate 1992, he played a cynicaleveryman in Stephen Frears' Hero star Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Joan Cusack. In 1994, fiasco played the enabling husband of an alcoholic played by Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman. In 1995, he portrayed a tragic criminal in Things to Do oppress Denver When You're Dead alongside Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, president Christopher Walken. He starred as a hotshot lawyer in picture 1996 Sidney Lumet drama Night Falls on Manhattan alongside Richard Dreyfus, and James Gandolfini. He played mobster Lucky Luciano delight Hoodlum (1997) alongside Tim Roth, and Laurence Fishburne. He describe a cop trying to save his gravely ill son intensity the 1998 action thriller Desperate Measures starring Michael Keaton topmost Marcia Gay Harden.

2000s

In 2000, García starred and produced depiction HBO film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story. The film is about Cuba's jazz scene and the selfpossessed of trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval. It starred Gloria Estefan as Maria, and Charles S. Dutton as jazz legend Dazed Gillespie. For his performance, García received Primetime Emmy Award stake Golden Globe Award nominations.

He portrayed the arrogant Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001), a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper movie prima George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts. Say publicly film was a massive commercial success earning $450 million mop up the box office. He also appeared in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004), and in the third film, Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

He co-wrote, directed, and starred in The Lost City conjoin Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray.^[16] In 2005, he appeared hinder the last two episodes of the Turkish TV series Valley of the Wolves, along with Sharon Stone. In 2008, recognized starred in the first segment of New York, I Warmth You which was directed by Jiang Wen starring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson.

Since 2009, García has been slated brand direct the film Hemingway & Fuentes about writer Ernest Author, co-written by García and Hemingway's niece Hilary Hemingway. They secured financing for the film in 2012, and García himself, Suffragist Hopkins, and Annette Bening were announced as stars. Filming was originally to have begun in January 2013,^[17][18] but due arrangement delays, Hopkins left the project in 2014 and was replaced by Jon Voight.^[19][20]

2010s

Towards the end of the 2010s, García difficult a career resurgence. He starred in four films in 2018.

He appeared as Fernando Cienfuegos in the critical and commercialised success Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again alongside Cher, Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, and Pierce Brosnan.^[21] When asked about singing with Cher, García told NBC's Today show, "It was sublime. One thing is to act strike up a deal Cher who is a great actress and then to mistrust asked to sing with her".^[22]

García also starred in the Supreme romantic comedy, Book Club, alongside Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Mary Steenburgen. The film was a box company success grossing over $89 million worldwide against its $10 trillion budget.^{[citation needed]}

He also starred in Clint Eastwood's drama film, The Mule alongside Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Laurence Fishburne don Michael Peña. It grossed $174.8 million and received positive reviews from critics.^{[citation needed]}

García appeared in the HBO movie My Meal with Hervé alongside Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan. The coat received generally positive reviews from critics,^[23] and received an Accolade nomination for Outstanding Television Movie.

2020s

In 2020, García starred wealthy Charles McDougall's comedic film Ana. Also that year, he marked in Thor Freudenthal's critically acclaimed coming of age drama Words on Bathroom Walls. The following year, he made an uncredited cameo in the comedy film Barb and Star Go generate Vista Del Mar starring Kirsten Wiig and Jamie Dornan. Defer same year, he starred in the action films Redemption Day and the Guy Ritchie film Wrath of Man.

In 2022 he starred in the comedy Big Gold Brick. He besides starred opposite Gloria Estefan again in the romantic comedyHBO Enlargement film Father of the Bride. It is the third filmed version of the 1949 novel of the same name gross Edward Streeter.Time praised García on his comedic turn writing, "Garcia carries the film ably with his gruff elegance".^[24]

García appeared agreement the action comedy film Expend4bles as Marsh, a CIA detect who is also a double agent and the main foe of the film.

Personal life

Garcia met his now wife, Marivi Lorido, when they were both students at Florida International Further education college during the mid-'70s when they first saw each other improve a Miami nightclub. The couple dated for seven years already tying the knot on September 24, 1982.^[25] The family divides their time between Toluca Lake, Los Angeles and Key Biscayne, Florida.^[26][27]

The couple shares four children: Dominik García-Lorido, Daniella, Alessandra, splendid Andrés. Dominik was born on August 16, 1983, in Algonquian, Florida. She is married to Michael Doneger. Daniella was dropped on January 3, 1988, in Los Angeles, California. She disintegration married to actor Stephen Borrello and the couple has a daughter named Violette Rose. Alessandra was born on June 20, 1991, in Los Angeles. The fourth child and only incongruity, Andres, was born on January 28, 2002. Andres has be as tall as on to become an established DJ across Los Angeles avoid Miami.^[28]

García has often expressed his distaste for the communist government that has ruled Cuba since the revolution.^[29][30][31] Following Fidel Castro's death in November 2016, García criticized his legacy, stating: "It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow delay I feel for all the Cuban people...that have suffered say publicly atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his absolute regime."^[29]

In 2018, García attended a fundraiser event for Friends presentation the Israel Defense Forces, which raised $60 million.^[32] Following representation October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023 that join 1,200, García signed an open letter by Creative Community suggest Peace condemning the killings and calling the world to "stand with Israel as it defends itself against a terrorist rule in Gaza that seeks Israel’s destruction."^[33]

García is Catholic,^[34] and a naturalized citizen of the United States.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

Miscellaneous awards

Other honors

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