Oscar Isaac

Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada is a Guatemalan-American actor. He has appeared in the Star Wars sequel trilogy as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron. In 2016, Time named Isaac one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list.

About Oscar Isaac in brief

Summary Oscar IsaacÓscar Isaac Hernández Estrada is a Guatemalan-American actor. He has appeared in the Star Wars sequel trilogy as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and in X-Men: Apocalypse as the titular mutant supervillain Apocalypse. 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. 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 – Miniseries or Television Film. In 2006, he portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Australian film Balibo.

He had a small role in Guerrilla, Part Two of the Cheuevara film Che. He played King John Robin Hood in the 2010 film W.E. He starred in the crime drama Drive, both of which were released in September 2011. He performed his own song in the film Inside Llewyn Davis, which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for the film for the soundtrack. He played a talented yet unsuccessful folk singer in the 1961 film The Coen brothers, where he played the brothers’ brother, Coen. He appeared as Romeo in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park performances of Romeo and Juliet and as Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona.