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Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. After making his acting debut in the late 1990s, he studied acting at the Juilliard School and played small roles for a majority of the 2000s. For portraying José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2006), Isaac won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Following supporting roles in major films such as Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the starring role of a singer in the Coen brothers' black comedy Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), earning a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015), and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with his starring role as Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). He has since starred in the science fiction films Annihilation (2018) and Dune (2021), and the crime drama The Card Counter (2021). On television, Isaac has starred in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015) and Scenes from a Marriage (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for portraying Nick Wasicsko in the former. In 2022, he began starring as the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Moon Knight in the Disney+ series Moon Knight (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Isaac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. After making his acting debut in the late 1990s, he studied acting at the Juilliard School and played small roles for a majority of the 2000s. For portraying José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2006), Isaac won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Following supporting roles in major films such as Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the starring role of a singer in the Coen brothers' black comedy Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), earning a nomination for a Golden Globe Award. Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015), and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with his starring role as Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). He has since starred in the science fiction films Annihilation (2018) and Dune (2021), and the crime drama The Card Counter (2021). On television, Isaac has starred in the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015) and Scenes from a Marriage (2021), winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for portraying Nick Wasicsko in the former. In 2022, he began starring as the Marvel Cinematic Universe character Moon Knight in the Disney+ series Moon Knight (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Isaac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
El hormiguero
What If...?
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Star Wars Resistance
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Last Movie Stars
Avengers: Doomsday
Marvel Zombies
The Director and the Jedi
The Force of Sound
BEEF
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight
Sucker Punch
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Body of Lies
The Bourne Legacy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Robin Hood
Annihilation
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Skywalker Legacy
X-Men: Apocalypse
In Secret
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Drive
Big Gold Brick
Suburbicon
A World of Calm
W.E.
Untitled Star Wars "New Jedi Order" Film
At Eternity's Gate
The Two Faces of January
Dune
Ex Machina
Scenes from a Marriage
Triple Frontier
A Most Violent Year
Bananas
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Flesh of the Gods
The Addams Family
The Addams Family 2
Helltown
Moon Knight
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Promise
Show Me a Hero
Frankenstein
Production Credits
The Apprentice
Big Gold Brick
Flesh of the Gods
Helltown
Bananas
Moon Knight
Scenes from a Marriage
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