Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan American actor and musician. He is known for his lead film roles in the comedy-drama Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Yearand the science fiction thriller Ex Machina. In 2006 he portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, in the Australian film Balibo for which he won the AACTA Award for...
NationalityGuatemalan
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 March 1979
CountryGuatemala
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.