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Luis Guzmán (born August 28, 1956) is a Puerto Rican actor. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, his squat build, wolfish features, and brooding countenance have garnered him roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen, but his later career has seen him move into more mainstream roles. He is a favorite of director Steven Soderbergh, who cast him in Out of Sight, The Limey, and Traffic, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast him in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. He also voiced Ricardo Diaz in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
Guzmán was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico and was raised in New York City`s Greenwich Village and the surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood. His mother, Rosa, was a hospital worker, and his stepfather, Benjamin Cardona, was a TV repairman. He also has family from Connecticut, like Cesar Cardona, Ana Cardona, his daugther Dolly Cardona, and her sons Mahasa Crudup and Luis Cardona. A graduate of City College of New York, he began his career not as an actor but as a social worker; however, he moonlighted as an actor and became heavily involved in street theater and independent films. He currently lives with his wife Angelita Galarza-Guzmán and their five children in Sutton, Vermont, where he owns a ranch called Wild Orchid Stables. Guzman`s numerous movie credits include Carlito`s Way, Carlito`s Way: Rise to Power, Welcome to Collinwood, Stonewall, Waiting..., The Salton Sea, and Lemony Snicket`s A Series of Unfortunate Events. He has also appeared on the TV shows Homicide: Life on the Street, Frasier and Oz and had a role in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and its prequel Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Guzm%C3%A1n |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes never thought about pursuing acting as a career. Back then we were mainly performing at block parties. It was a labor of love and it was a lot of fun. The best I thought I could do was maybe make a few extra bucks on the side. All I really wanted was to earn enough to buy myself a used car so I could drive out to Orchard Beach at the weekend. This whole thing is a complete fluke. My all time favorite actor is Marlon Brando. I admired how effortless and how real he was in his performance in On the Waterfront (1954). To me, he wasn`t acting. He was living the role. And that`s what I admire about good acting. It`s real." never thought about pursuing acting as a career. Back then we were mainly performing at block parties. It was a labor of love and it was a lot of fun. The best I thought I could do was maybe make a few extra bucks on the side. All I really wanted was to earn enough to buy myself a used car so I could drive out to Orchard Beach at the weekend. This whole thing is a complete fluke. Leading men crash and burn. Character actors are around forever. I`ve become, like, this farmer. I live on the top of a mountain and I look out at the birds fighting over the bird table instead of guys fighting over a parking space. It`s about as far from my old neighborhood as you can get. But you know what they say: you can take the kid out of the Lower East Side but you can`t take the Lower East Side out of the kid.Trivia Frequently cast by film director Steven Soderbergh. Frequently cast by film director Paul Thomas Anderson. Performed in several spots for Cabot Cheese, which is based near where he lives in Cabot, Veromont living the life of a gentleman farmer. He and Chuck Zito are the only actors to appear in both Carlito's Way and its prequel, Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. Although he played the father of Nicholas Turturro on two episodes of "NYPD Blue" (1993), he is in fact only five years older than Turturro. Last name is pronounced "goosemahn". Was considered for the role of Willie Lopez in Ghost (1990). He worked as a social worker, working with especially young people, he also was very involved with his community, arranging events e.g., before becoming an actor. Lives in Cabot, Vermont. [2005] He prefers his first name pronounced "Loo-ee". Born in Puerto Rico, but grew up in Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, in New York. In an interview, he explained that his mother travelled to New York fifteen minutes after his birth. | ||
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