Biography
Andy Garcia is a talented American actor, director and composer. Spanish roots Garcia allowed him to create a whole film harness of recognizable images. It is the role of mafiosis in the cult cycle of Francis Coppole "The Godfather 3" put forward a few prestigious awards for the role of the second plan.
Despite strict moral principles and the lack of scandals around his person, Garcia became popular in Hollywood and around the world, where American films are watching.
Childhood and youth
Andres Arturo Garcia Menendes was born on April 12, 1956 in Havana in Cuba. The family of his parents is a teacher of English Amelie Menendes and lawyer Rena Garcia Nunes - lived quite albeit. Therefore, after the revolution, the family ran from communist Cuba in the United States and settled in Miami Beach. There, a former lawyer engaged in the production of perfumery and achieved success.
Young Andres Garcia received an education in the USA. Andy was a popular student at school, handsome and athlete, dreamed professionally playing baseball. However, he became infected with mononucleosis and hepatitis and serious sport had to be left. As a result, an actor career was chosen.
Andy Garcia studied acting under the leadership of Jay W. Jensen, who erected the whole Pleiad of talented actors. He studied Brett Ratner, Roy Firestone, Mickey Rourk and Luther Campbell. Despite the successes at the International University of Florida, in 1978 Garcia moved to Los Angeles, where he began to play in independent theatrical troupes, periodically appearing on television.
Films
The actor is filmed in two dozen projects for ten years. Glory comes in 1990 with access to the rental of "Cross Father 3", where Garcia played Vincenzo "Winnie" Mansini, insidious and temperamental mafios, an extramarital son Santino Korleon. For this role, Andy was nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe. As a result, the directors began to invite actors to the role of gangsters or, as a last resort, brutal policemen.
Sometimes Andy Garcia is confused with Mark Strong, a British actor of Italian origin. Photos of both actors can be found in the selection of twin star. Perhaps the filmmakers wishing to easily distinguish their favorites will help the information that the growth of Andy Garcia is 1.78 m, and Strong is ten centimeters higher.
In 2004, Garcia played the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani in the film "Modigliani". One of the tasks of the painting was to show the painter who lived a hundred years ago, a living person, and not flat picture from the textbook. And Andy Garcia coped with the task. According to the actor's own statement, for quality work, he needs a good partner, better - partner. In "Modigliani" to play so passionately and violently to work together with Elsa Zilberstein.
I had to play the actor and first persons of states. In 2011, in the film "5 days in August", he starred as president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. To prepare for the role of Garcia, he studied to speak with Georgian accent and gesticulate, browsing the records of Saakashvili performances on Youtube. In the fantastic reality of the militant "Geoshtorm", the actor appears as a fictional president of the United States Andrew Palma.
In general, with age, there is a solidity: in the fantastic melodrame "Passengers", Andy is reincarnated in Norris, Admiral of the Space Fleet. In the Mexican drama "For greater glory (Christiad), Garcia plays the general of the army of the rebels Enrique Gryosto-and-Varde. In the "Ghostbusters" he is the mayor of New York.
In parallel with the acting work, Andy Garcia is engaged in directed. The debut ribbon of the novice producer and the director became the documentary film "Kachao: Rhythm, like anyone else" about the beloved Andy Cuban composer and singer Israel "Kachao" Lopez. For this film, the producer was awarded "Grammy".
Andy Garcia himself is also a professional composer. His music can be heard in the "disappearance of Garcia Lorca", in the "Speculant" of his Peru belongs to the text and music of the song Big Date. In the "Lost City" and "Twelve Friends of Oshen" Garcia also performs its own compositions.
Personal life
September 24, 1982 Andy Garcia married Maria Victoria Marivi Lorido Garcia, daughters of emigrants from Cuba. Now this marriage is one of the most durable in Hollywood. They say that Andy made an offer to the future wife on the first day of dating - in the distant 1975. Spouses have three daughters and son. It is known that the older brother of the actor is called Rene Garcia, and the niece - Jackie Garcia.
The eldest daughter, Dominic Garcia Lorido, was born in 1984 and also chose an actress career. Daniella was born in 1988, Alessandra - in 1991, Andres Garcia Lorido - in 2002.
Family privacy The actor is zealously hiding. His biography is free from gossip and scandals. In work, he also adheres to strict moral principles: refuses to act in bedside scenes and even just nude in the frame. It is proud of the fact that for all the years of acting career did not make anything like that they would have to blush before children.
Andy Garcia now
In 2018, the premiere of six kinocartin is expected to immediately participate in the creation of which Andy Garcia.
The filmography was added to the Mamma Mia Mia!, Dramatic television film "My dinner with Erve", Fighter "Primanka", Fantasy "Iron Sky: Ark", Drama "Anna" and a comedy "Book Club". It can be hoped that an experienced and talented actor will be good in any genre.
Filmography
- 1990 - "Great Father 3"
- 1995 - "What to do the dead in Denver"
- 2001 - "Eleven friends of Oushen"
- 2004 - "Twelve friends of Oushen"
- 2007 - "Thirteen Friends of Oshen"
- 2009 - "Pink Panther 2"
- 2011 - "5 days in August"
- 2012 - "For greasy (Christiad)"
- 2016 - "Passengers"
- 2017 - "Geoshtorm"
- 2018 - Mamma Mia! 2.
- 2018 - "My lunch with Erve"
- 2018 - "Iron Sky: Ark"
- 2018 - "Primanka"