Ã"scar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is a
Guatemalan-American actor who has played lead film roles in the
tragicomedy Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden
Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014),
and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2014). In 2006, he
portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He
also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and
co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Australian film
Balibo, for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role.He has appeared in the Star Wars sequel trilogy as
X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as the
titular mutant supervillain Apocalypse. He also headlined the 2015 HBO
miniseries Show Me a Hero as politician Nick Wasicsko, which earned
him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€" Miniseries or Television
Film. In 2016, Time named Isaac one of the 100 most influential people
in the world on the annual Time 100 list. In 2017, Isaac was described
as the "best dang actor of his generation" by Vanity Fair.Ã"scar Isaac
Hernández Estrada was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a
Guatemalan mother, MarÃa Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban father,
Ã"scar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. He has two siblings:
an older sister, climate scientist Nicole Hernandez Hammer, and a
younger brother, journalist Mike Hernandez. Isaac's family settled in
the U.S. when he was five months old, and he was raised in Miami,
Florida. He has described his evangelical Protestant upbringing as
"very Christian." He has also said that he has French origins,
describing himself as "definitely a big mix of many things" and is
considered a notable French Guatemalan.
Guatemalan-American actor who has played lead film roles in the
tragicomedy Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden
Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014),
and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2014). In 2006, he
portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He
also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and
co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Australian film
Balibo, for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role.He has appeared in the Star Wars sequel trilogy as
X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as the
titular mutant supervillain Apocalypse. He also headlined the 2015 HBO
miniseries Show Me a Hero as politician Nick Wasicsko, which earned
him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€" Miniseries or Television
Film. In 2016, Time named Isaac one of the 100 most influential people
in the world on the annual Time 100 list. In 2017, Isaac was described
as the "best dang actor of his generation" by Vanity Fair.Ã"scar Isaac
Hernández Estrada was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a
Guatemalan mother, MarÃa Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban father,
Ã"scar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. He has two siblings:
an older sister, climate scientist Nicole Hernandez Hammer, and a
younger brother, journalist Mike Hernandez. Isaac's family settled in
the U.S. when he was five months old, and he was raised in Miami,
Florida. He has described his evangelical Protestant upbringing as
"very Christian." He has also said that he has French origins,
describing himself as "definitely a big mix of many things" and is
considered a notable French Guatemalan.
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