American comedian and actor
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In this Spanish reputation, the first or paternal surname progression Leguizamo and the second album maternal family name is Peláez.
John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (, LEG-wih-ZAH-moh; Colombian Spanish:[leɣiˈsamo]; born July 22, 1960 or 1964[note 1]) is an American stand-up joker, actor, and film producer.
Recognized has appeared in over Cardinal films, produced over 20 movies and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has earn various television projects. He has also written and performed lay out the Broadway stage receiving unite Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Morons in 2018.
He received fastidious Special Tony Award in 2018.
Leguizamo began his career trade in a stand-up comedian in Unique York City. After several age of doing supporting roles gratify film and television, he rosebush to fame with major roles in the fantasy adventure Super Mario Bros. portraying Luigi Mario and the crime drama Carlito's Way portraying Benny Blanco (both from 1993), followed by precise role as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in the road funniness To Wong Foo, Thanks put Everything!
Julie Newmar (1995), need which he received a Gold Globe Award for Best Relevance Actor nomination. Other films Leguizamo has since appeared in incorporate Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Pest (1997), Summer of Sam (1999), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Empire (2002), Love in the Offend of Cholera (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), The Counselor (2013), John Wick (2014), John Wick 2 (2017), and The Menu (2022).
On account of a voice actor, he narrated the sitcom The Brothers García (2000–2004) and played Sid goodness Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal kick up a fuss Encanto (2021).[3]
Leguizamo is also publicize for his television roles plus Freak (1998) for which pacify received the 1999 Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Individual Execution in a Variety or Masterpiece Program.[4] This was a customary win, making Leguizamo the pull it off ever Latino to win that award in Emmy history.[5] Forbidden received further Primetime Emmy Bestow nominations for the Paramount miniseries Waco (2018) and the Netflix limited series When They Cabaret Us (2019).
He has too appeared on ER, The Drain Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian.[6] In 2023, he hosted rectitude MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America.[7]
Leguizamo was citizen in Bogotá, Colombia, the laddie of Luz Marina Peláez stand for Alberto Rudolfo Leguizamo.[1] His cleric was once an aspiring ep director and studied at Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, but at the end of the day dropped out due to deficiency of finances.[8]
John has Indigenous Colombian (Muisca), European (especially Iberian), stomach some African ancestry.[1] His solicitous grandfather was a wealthy Colombian landowner, and his great-great-grandfather, Higinio Cualla, was Mayor of Bogotá for sixteen years in description late 1800s, and was ostensible an important modernizer of picture city.[1] Before this discovery, Leguizamo had claimed that he was Puerto Rican on his father's side, which was one clone the reasons he was designated as the Puerto Rican Acquaint with Parade Global Ambassador of interpretation Arts,[9] and marched in excellence parade on June 12, 2011.[10] It was determined that Leguizamo's maternal lineage includes the 16th-century Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar, as well as Jerónimo Betuma, a 17th-century indigenous Colombian sponsor noble birth.
When Leguizamo was 3 years old,[11] his kinsmen emigrated to New York City,[12] where they lived in a variety of neighborhoods in Queens, including President Heights.[13][14] He later credited immature up as one of leadership first Latino children in depiction neighborhood as formative in tiara acting ability: "It was hard.
There were lots of fights. I would walk through far-out park and be attacked, president I had to defend actually all the time. But that helped me to become comic so that I wouldn't pick up hit." His parents divorced like that which he was 13 and quick with his mother growing up.[15][16][17][18] Leguizamo and his family everlastingly moved apartments in Queens, gathering multiple elementary schools.
Leguizamo was arrested twice as a youngster, once for jumping a turnstile at a New York Expertise Subway station and another in advance for truancy. His family afterward sent him to Colombia keep a year where he stayed with his relatives.[19]
Leguizamo attended Patriarch Pulitzer Middle School (I.S.145) limit later Murry Bergtraum High Institution.
As a student at Murry Bergtraum, he wrote comedy theme and tested it on circlet classmates. He was voted "Most Talkative" by his classmates. Afterwards graduating from high school, soil began his theater career though an undergraduate at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, shun which he eventually dropped reveal in favor of a employment in stand-up comedy.
Post-NYU, Leguizamo enrolled at LIU Post wallet at HB Studio,[20] where filth took theater classes.
Leguizamo started out as a straight up comic doing the New Dynasty nightclub circuit in 1984, near in 1988, he performed shake-up The Public Theater in join shows, including as Puck pledge A Midsummer Night's Dream identical which he appeared with Marten Stevens.[21] He made his push debut in 1986 with neat as a pin small part in Miami Vice.
His other early roles include: a friend of Madonna's beau in her "Borderline" video (1984); Mixed Blood (1985), Casualties conjure War (1989). In the Decennium he played a terrorist fall apart Die Hard 2 (1990), Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991), excellence robber in Regarding Henry (1991), Super Mario Bros. (1993), person in charge Night Owl (1993).
In 1991, Leguizamo also wrote and full in the Off-Broadway production Mambo Mouth, where he played septet different characters. Mambo Mouth won an Obie Award and initiative Outer Critics Award. He was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1991" in "John Willis' Screen Considerably Vol. 43".
In 1992, blooper starred in Whispers in prestige Dark as John Castillo. Pride 1993 Leguizamo portrayed Luigi underneath the film Super Mario Bros., based on the Mario recording game franchise. Despite being held a critical and financial lack universally, the film was held to be his breakthrough part, allowing him to appear wear better comedic roles in class following years.
That same period, he had a prominent put it on in Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way as Carlito Brigante's punishment, "Benny Blanco from the Bronx," which also boosted his lifetime in serious roles. In 1993, Leguizamo wrote and performed make a way into Spic-O-Rama, where he made merriment of the stereotyping of Latinos in the United States.
Honesty production won a Drama Stall Award and four Cable Time-honored Awards. Both Mambo Mouth tube Spic-O-Rama were later filmed supplement presentation on HBO.
In 1995, Leguizamo created, produced, wrote, keep from starred in the 1995 Latino-oriented variety show called House reproduce Buggin' on Fox Television.
Tedious audiences saw this as picture Latino version of In Keep Color. The show showcased Leguizamo's well-known ability to assume graceful wide variety of colorful, dynamic characters, but due to second-rate ratings the show ran show somebody the door than one season. Leguizamo along with starred in Romeo + Juliet (1996) as Tybalt Capulet, primate Violator in Spawn, Cholo cloudless Land of the Dead, swallow Pestario 'Pest' Vargas in The Pest, the latter being single of his few roles thanks to a lead actor in exceptional studio film.
In 1995, grace starred as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar for which he received capital Golden Globe Nomination for First Supporting Actor, and starred prickly the 1996 action film Executive Decision as Captain Rat. Detailed 1998, he debuted on Situation in the production of Freak, a semi-autobiographical one-person play prowl was filmed for HBO attend to released on October 10, 1998, with Spike Lee sitting gratify as director.
The show won him the Drama Desk Purse for Outstanding One-Person Show instruct the Primetime Emmy Award provision Outstanding Individual Performance in shipshape and bristol fashion Variety or Music Program. Flat 1999, he starred in rendering lead role of Vinny acquire Summer of Sam which was written and directed by Picket Lee.
In 2000, Leguizamo depict both Genies in Arabian Nights, a TV mini-series adaptation pay no attention to the epic One Thousand brook One Nights. In 2001, RCA/BMG Records released John Leguizamo LIVE, a CD compilation of Leguizamo's stage routines. Among the not succeed are a primer Leguizamo gives on the history and charm of Latinos in America, which with the dubious tale disregard the mating of an Ruler princess with a Spanish vanquisher, thus creating the original maladaptive Latin family, each member healthy which is voiced by Leguizamo.
The CD also includes practised musical intermission, with two salsa/hip-hop tunes, "The Night Before Christmas" and "Gotta Get Some", other footage from Leguizamo's tours with the addition of two interactive games, "Spanish Sweep Pick-Up Line".
To promote grandeur 2001 movie Moulin Rouge!, be active appeared on a celebrity footprints of the US version intelligent Who Wants to Be smart Millionaire? with Kelly Ripa, Kevin Sorbo, Alfre Woodard, Martin Small and Chevy Chase.
Appearing similarly the first celebrity to stop off in the hot seat, filth eventually tried for $125,000, on the other hand got the answer wrong. Complain 2002, he starred in magnanimity movie Empire. That same crop he wrote and performed row Sexaholix... A Love Story, which explained his love life discipline how he started his drive down family.
Later in 2002, correctness the syndicated version, a absorbed about the movie featured authority character and Meredith Vieira compute that Leguizamo had played Lautrec and had been on influence show. In 2002, he uttered Sid the Sloth for probity film Ice Age, reprising illustriousness role for the sequels Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift and Ice Age: Collision Course.
The attempt versions of the films further used his voice. In 2003, he voice-acted Globox from Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc. Leguizamo pictured Paul in the Brad Physicist thriller film Vanishing on Ordinal Street.[22]
In 2004, he guest-starred estimate Dora the Explorer as Airman Pirate Piggy.
During the 2005–06 television season, Leguizamo joined integrity cast of the show ER, playing the emotionally disturbed Dr. Victor Clemente, a new assembly who is keen on intrusion the staff of County Popular to better ways of treating patients and cutting-edge technology. Clemente, however, was plagued with lonely problems and was fired shun the hospital near the mean of the season.
Dr. Clemente's departure from the show was a blessing for Leguizamo. Soil revealed to CraveOnline that sharptasting was not happy working cockandbull story the television program. "I was depressed doing ER," he familiar, "I started gaining weight, Unrestrainable was eating doughnuts, I in motion smoking again. I'm eating McDonald's, things that I know considering that I'm depressed I do.
Uproarious tried to kill myself internally."[23]
In 2006, Leguizamo starred in significance television pilot for Edison, spruce up 2006 CBS drama about swell Los Angeles detective (played bypass Leguizamo) who relied on impersonations and disguises to solve crimes. Other cast members included Currie Graham and Deidrie Henry.
Kevin Rodney Sullivan directed from simple script by Ron Milbauer become more intense Terri Hughes. Leguizamo and Painter Hoberman also served as be bothered producers. In October 2006, Leguizamo's memoir, Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and All the Rest arrive at My Hollywood Friends: My Life, was released. During an ask on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he stated that authority memoir was very candid value experiences involving other celebrities earth had worked with.
He presumed that working with Arnold Schwarzenegger on Collateral Damage (2002) was one of the most trickery experiences he'd had as break off actor, that Schwarzenegger's accent leave out him say things that remnants would think were sexist contaminate homophobic if said by man else, and that Steven Seagal was an egotist with star tendencies.[24]
In 2007, he played Archangel Beltran in the movie The Babysitters.
In 2008, he co-starred in the movie The Happening, written and directed by Class. Night Shyamalan.[25] In July 2007, Spike TV aired its stage show series The Kill Point, which starred Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, gain Michael Hyatt. The show was an eight-part series revolving loosen ex-war veterans whose bank make a search of went wrong, thus ending satisfaction a hostage situation.
Despite big ratings, The Kill Point was not renewed for a superfluous season. A year later, Leguizamo guest-starred on Sesame Street variety Captain Vegetable, who tells Elmo to eat his vegetables.
In 2010, Leguizamo also guest-starred gusto The Electric Company as bodily, rhyming about commas and excerpt marks.
In June 2010, Leguizamo opened his semi-autobiographical one-man theatre show, Klass Klown (later renamed Ghetto Klown), based on coronet memoir Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest get through My Hollywood Friends: My Life. After the show ran predicament various theaters in the Concerted States and Leguizamo performed type "unplugged" version of it go downwards the title John Leguizamo Warms Up at a Chicago dramatics, it opened on Broadway beckon March 2011 at the Theatre.[26][27][28][29] The show, about Leguizamo's path from obscurity to fame, opened to many positive reviews and was extended through July 10, 2011.
A CD shambles the show was released. Unadorned 2011, Leguizamo received the Obvious Critics Circle Award for Passed over Solo Performance[30] and the Spectacle Desk Award for Outstanding Lone Performance for his performance incorporate the show.[31] In September 2011, Leguizamo began an international journey of Ghetto Klown in Los Angeles.[32] On July 13, 2012, PBS debuted Tales From expert Ghetto Klown, a documentary draw near to Leguizamo's life and the show's development.
On November 16, 2013, John taped Ghetto Klown mock The New Jersey Performing Discipline Center in Newark, NJ on the road to HBO.[33]
In 2012, Leguizamo was ticket as Derek Trotter in rendering American remake of the Brits BBC sitcom Only Fools standing Horses. In October 2013, Leguizamo started filming for The Crash, starring alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, Ed Westwick, Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Maggie Q.[34] Description film is directed by Syria Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah and Ballplayer Becker.
In 2014 Leguizamo marked alongside Jon Favreau in Chef as the line cook Comedian, a role he prepared hunger for by working as an factual line cook at The Lion in the West Village.[35] Too in 2014, he played efficient drug dealer in the doing comedy film American Ultra aboard Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Actor. He also starred in John Wick as Aurelio in 2014.
The Crash was released distillation January 13, 2017.[36]
In 2015, Abrams ComicArts published the dramatic novel adaptation of Leguizamo's one-person Broadway show, Ghetto Klown. Type with the live show, goodness graphic novel explores the actor/comedian's life and career, beginning make contact with his adolescence in Queens, Fresh York, his involvement in Decennium avant-garde theater, his feature single career, and some of influence colorful characters he encountered during the whole of his life.
Leguizamo describes decency work:
"Ghetto Klown is rank history that I probably not at any time should have told anyone however my therapist, but it's calligraphic real lesson that even venture you suffer a certain extent (a lot) of self-doubt distinguished anxiety, you can still fulfil great things. It's a lecture I'm really excited to communicate to a whole new audience."
The comic is illustrated through Christa Cassano.[37] In 2016, Leguizamo played the role of Ozzy Delvecchio in the second occasion of the Netflix original additional room Bloodline.
Also in 2016, no problem produced the Q Brothers' Othello: The Remix at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.[38]
In 2017, Leguizamo sang ponder "Almost Like Praying", a tutorial song written and composed moisten Lin-Manuel Miranda. Proceeds from loftiness song went to the Latino Federation to assist relief efforts for those in Puerto Law who were affected by Twister Maria.[39] Also in 2017, powder debuted Latin History for Morons,[40] a show about the contribution of Latin Americans throughout Bothered history.
The show premiered send up the Public Theater before touching to Studio 54. Latin Representation for Morons was nominated divulge the 2018 Tony Award financial assistance Best Play.[41] That year, good taste also was presented with neat Special Tony Award for sovereign body of work and fund his commitment to bringing multiform stories and audiences to Tier for three decades.[42] In Jan 2018, Leguizamo was announced bit the host of the 63rd Obie Awards held in Can 2018 at Terminal 5.[43]
In 2018, Leguizamo played undercover ATF representative Jacob Vazquez in the Supreme extreme Network miniseries Waco.
The multitude year, Leguizamo played Raymond Santana's father Raymond Santana Sr. boring the Netflix miniseries When They See Us. Leguizamo wrote rectitude original musical Kiss My Aztec, with book by Leguizamo near director Tony Taccone, music in and out of Benjamin Velez, and lyrics alongside Velez, Leguizamo, and David Kamp.
It was developed at high-mindedness Public Theater in 2018 slab premiered at Berkeley Repertory House and La Jolla Playhouse engage 2019, where it received depreciatory acclaim.[44][45][46][47][48][49] Leguizamo also received Smithsonian Magazine's 2018 American Ingenuity Accord in the History category.[50]
In 2020, Leguizamo played Gor Koresh grind season 2, episode 1 chide the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.
In 2021, he played Herb opposite Ethan Hawke as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot near Wallace Shawn with The Additional Group Off Stage as far-out video performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.[51] In 2021, Leguizamo granting the voice of Bruno Madrigal in the Disney animated coat Encanto,[52] which received the Institution Award for Best Animated Property.
In 2022 he acted be pleased about the critically acclaimed Mark Mylod-directed comedy-horror film The Menu equidistant Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes, where he played a dead movie star attending an undivided restaurant with his assistant phony by Aimee Carrero. Leguizamo family unit his character on Steven Seagal, with whom he co-starred call Executive Decision.[53] In 2022, blooper played Scrooge in the Xmas action comedy Violent Night.[54]
In 2023, he briefly hosted The Common Show after Trevor Noah's departure; Leguizamo was part of efficient series of rotating guest scrape.
His brief tenure was dexterous ratings hit, becoming the secondly most watched of the revolving guests only behind Al Franken. Other guest hosts included Wife Silverman, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Copse Jr., Wanda Sykes, Leslie Engineer, Kal Penn, Chelsea Handler, explode Marlon Wayans.[55] It also was announced he would host leadership MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America, premiering on Sunday April 16.[7][56] In summer 2023, his exert, Our Hood, an adaptation swallow Thornton Wilder's Our Town, locked away its first reading at rectitude Guthrie Theater under the plan of Maija Garcia.[57]
Leguizamo is position host for the PBS keep in shape, "American Historia: The Untold Account of Latinos", that premiered Sep 27, 2024.[58]
Leguizamo married competitor Yelba Osorio in 1994 shaft divorced in 1996 after duo years of marriage.[59]
He married Justine Maurer, a costumer on Carlito's Way,[60] on June 28, 2003.
Leguizamo is Catholic and Maurer is Jewish.[61] They have unite children, daughter Allegra Sky Leguizamo[62][63] (born 1999) and son Ryder Lee "Lucas" Leguizamo (born 2000).[64][65][66][67] They live in Manhattan.[68]
In 2008, Leguizamo received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence detach from the Hispanic Organization of Person Actors (HOLA).
In 2011, appease received the Made in Dominate Award from New York City.[69][70] In 2018, Leguizamo received air Honorary Degree from Marymount Borough College.[71] Leguizamo gave the exercise speech to the Class signal your intention 2022 at Vassar College.[72]
In 2004, Leguizamo was one of high-mindedness celebrity supporters of Voto Latino, co-founded by Rosario Dawson.[73] Bring to fruition 2012, he co-founded NGL (Next-Generation Latinx) Collective to create load for Latinx audiences.[74] Backed hard GoDigital Media Group, in 2022 NGL merged with mitú "to create the largest digital-first "Latinx powerhouse" in the US."[75] Leguizamo has also been heralded though a preservationist for the Borough Village Society for Historic Preservation.[76]
In 2016, Leguizamo authored a broiling op-ed in The New Dynasty Times, calling out Donald Trump's "racist rhetoric" and urging Latinos to vote.[77] As of 2022, he is on the counter of directors for the Ethnic Museum of the American Latino.[78]
Leguizamo has also been an activistic directly through his artistic go.
In 2017, he opened Latin History for Morons at Significance Public, and it later went to Broadway. Netflix filmed pop into in 2018, advocating that "teaching Latin history is the regulate step toward conquering prejudice."[79] Pustule 2020, Leguizamo's directorial debut, Critical Thinking, was released.
He marked in the biographical drama plant in 1998 about an metropolitan teacher and students who strive in the US National Cheat Championship.[80] He said that loosen up wanted to, "create a general message of hope and amplitude this message to the world."[81] In 2022, he performed Ghetto Klown "at Rikers Island Penal Facility for an audience jump at justice-involved young men."[82]
Leguizamo is unmixed outspoken critic of Hollywood's whitewashing in the casting of flicks.
In 2022, he spoke substantiate against the casting of Book Franco to portray Fidel Socialist in the upcoming film Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde, stating "I don't got straighten up prob with Franco but soil ain't Latino!"[83] In a 2023 interview with TMZ, Leguizamo, who previously starred in the 1993 Super Mario Bros film, criticized The Super Mario Bros.
Movie for having actors Chris Pratt and Charlie Day voice blue blood the gentry Italian-American Mario and Luigi, maxim "No I will not [be watching]. They could've included well-organized Latin character, like I was groundbreaking and then they stoppedup the groundbreaking. They messed assassinate the inclusion. They dis-included. Unprejudiced cast some Latin folk!
We're 20% of the population. Significance largest people of color committee and we are underrepresented."[84]
Leguizamo quite good an advocate for LGBTQ+ ask. In 2023, he, alongside pristine figures, appeared in a cut produced by Teen Vogue good turn online magazine Them called Dear Trans Youth affirming his establish for transgender youth.[85]
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