Biography
American Cinema and Teleacter Laz Alonso is a little-known figure among cash films lovers. He still does not have the role that could be allocated among the variety and to be called recognizable, although there are dozens of projects in the filmography. The chance brighter to doll the artist presented the series "Guys", the premiere of the 1st season of which was held in the summer of 2019.Childhood and youth
Lazaro Alonso was born on March 25, 1974 in Washington, the capital of the United States. His parents are refugees from Cuba, immigrants in the first generation.
The actor realized his calling, but he entered the University of Howard for the Finance Faculty. Business seemed more practical sphere than creativity. However, for a long time to ignore the talent outward outwards was impossible.
Having received a diploma, Laz Alonso moved to the "Big Apple" of the United States - New York. He got an investment banker in Merrill Lynch on Wall Street and at the same time walked on auditions.
After the appearance in several commercials, Lhaz Alonso began to recognize on the castings and invite to episodic roles on television. His major debut took place in the TV series "Disappearing" (2000). From now on, it is worth starting to count the acting career.
Personal life
If you believe the information on the Internet, the heart of the artist is now free. Although girls, for example, are Karen Fukuhara still appear in photographs in his account in "Instagram". However, their personal lives do not associate anything, except for the shooting platform "Guys".Films
After the appearance in the series, the "disappearing" Lazz Alonso had to be interrupted by episodic roles. "Without a trace", "Food for the Soul", "Sea Police: Specialtime" ... He risked and remain locked into the television framework, if not a thriller "Konstantin: Lord of Darkness" (2005). The on-screen time turned out to be a little, because Laz Alonso played just a security guard in the morgue, but the influential directors spoke about the talented dark-skinned actor.
Invitation did not make himself wait: Sam Mendez offered a role in the Military militant "Morai" (2005). Despite the powerful film crew and cast, - Jake Jillenhol, Jamie Fox, Peter Sarsgaard, - the film barely went to zero. But LAZ was not for money, and popularity.
Springfin for the actor was "Forsazh-4" (2009). In one of the interviews, he described the film as the "original on steroids", since the caste came to the same as in the debut part, and the testosterone level rose, including due to Laza Alonso. He played the Phoenix of Calderon, a car fraudster, who is tied "Cats-mouse" with a character of the Wine Diesel - Dominic Torteto.
The following project became an unconditional breakthrough as a whole in the film industry and for the biography of Alonso. He played Na'vi named Ts''tei in the scientific fiction film "Avatar" (2009). So far, on this role, the actor will learn, although his face hides computational graphics.
In the 2010, Career Laza Alonso seemed to froze in one place. He starred in "straw psa" (2011), "Furçage-6" (2013), "Detroit" (2017). And his free time devoted to documentary films.
One of them is "Black and Latin Americans" (2012) - racial issues relevant for the USA. The main roles took over the actors, musicians and other people show business with dark skin color and exotic origins. They told how to dissolve their Europeanoids affected his career.
Laz Alonso became one of the heroes, he is black Latin American. In an interview with HUFFPOST, the actor explained:
"Many people think that a person cannot be both the other. They do not understand that racial and ethnicity are different things. Latinos can be dark or lateral. In the same way in the world there are dark-skinned British, Canadians, French. These are different concepts. "Origin - "Business Card" Laza Alonso. Partly, thanks to this, the actors appreciate critics. For the role in the film "Wedding Test" (2011), for example, he was presented to the National Association for the Progress of the Color Population (NAACP) as a "outstanding film actor".
So far, the most successful project in the filmography - the series "Guys", based on the comic book of the same name.
Actions unfold in an alternative universe, where superheroes are a kind of celebrity. But outside the bright costumes and masks they are not modest and imperceptible, like a superman or Batman, but mercantile and arrogant people. The detachment of "guys" wishes them to calm them. Hero Laza - Marvin, he is Mother Milk, - the main brain of "guys".
The premiere of the series took place in July 2019 and was successful in the viewer. Therefore, Showranner Eric Crypt, famous for the emergency in the 15th seasonal TV show "Supernatural", launched a continuation. It came to the screens in September 2020. Then the fans of "guys" saw the first spin-off "Butcher" about the character of the same name. The idea received positive feedback, and the directors expressed their readiness to remove the short film about each character. Perhaps the queue will come to the Hero of Laza.
LAZ Alonso now
There are stories that Alonso would like to tell not as an actor, but as a director and producer. He had already conquered one vertex - financed a short film Planet B-Boy (2011) Chris Brown. Through the prism of Haiti after the earthquake of 2010, history talks about life in the third world countries.Over time, the Contractor wants to open an independent music agency to provide an opportunity for self-realization to each nugget. Meanwhile, in the headphones of the actor himself, a serious mix: from the American disco of the 1980s to the Russian classics. At the last actor "Harred", when 4 months starred for the film "Abduction" (2007) in Moscow.
But all these desires may be destined to come true later. In the meantime, Laza Alonso is in line - immediately a few filmmaker as an actor. In September 2020, the light saw the spin-off of the criminal drama "Power in the night city" - "Book Second: Ghost" with his participation.
In January 2021, a militant release was prescribed from Gaya Richie "Human Anger". Alonso divided the shooting platform with Jason Steatem and Josh Hartnett. At the same time, shooting the 3rd season of the series "Guys".
Filmography
- 2005 - "Moray"
- 2009 - "Fast and Furious 4"
- 2009 - "Avatar"
- 2010-2011 - "Soutland"
- 2011 - "Straw Dogs"
- 2011-2012 - "Kings of escape"
- 2013 - "Deception"
- 2013 - "Fast and Furious 6"
- 2014-2016 - "Laura Investigation"
- 2017 - "Detroit"
- 2018 - "Traffic"
- 2019 - "The best in Los Angeles"
- 2019-2020 - "Guys"
- 2020 - "Power in the night city. Book Second: Ghost "
- 2021 - "Human Anger"