Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan American actor and musician. He is known for his lead film roles in the comedydrama Inside Llewyn Davis , for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Year and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina . He also portrayed Jos RamosHorta, former president of East Timor, in the Australian film Balibo for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
scar Isaac Hernndez Estrada was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Mara Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban pulmonologist father, scar Gonzalo HernndezCano. His maternal grandfather was French. Isaac was raised in Miami, Florida. He has described his evangelical Protestant upbringing as very Christian. While in Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band the Blinking Underdogs. He spent his musical years living a straight edge lifestyle.
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