Edward James Olmos

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1947 age 0

   Born

2. 1982 age 35

   CreditBlade Runner

3. 1997 age 50

   CreditSelena

4. 2008 age 61

   CreditBeverly Hills Chihuahua

5. 2011 age 64

   CreditThe Green Hornet

6. 2013 age 66

   Credit2 Guns

   CreditMachete Kills

7. 2017 age 70

   CreditBlade Runner 2049

• BPBill Paxton2 titles
• JHJames Hong2 titles
• RSRidley Scott2 titles
• WSWilliam Sadler2 titles
• HFHarrison Ford2 titles
• LLLucy Lawless2 titles
• BMBear McCreary2 titles
• HFHampton Fancher2 titles
• SYSean Young2 titles
• BYBud Yorkin2 titles

• Spouse

  • LBLorraine Bracco
  • LNLymari Nadal

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Fight against typecasting? All the time. There’s a truth in the stereotype, that’s why it becomes a stereotype but the problem starts when it’s the only thing you see. When it comes to Latinos in the US, the truth is they [Americans] know very little about us.

  Edward James Olmos, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The stereotypical usage of any culture, any ethnicity, is based on fact or truth. The difficulty is that that’s the only fact and truth that they use. So therefore, it becomes, “Oh, everyone’s like that,” and everyone isn’t like that. Stereotypes are stereotypes. They’re just one-dimensional characterizations of what the person who’s depicted represents, and that’s the difficulty of what I learned as I moved older into the late ‘50s, early ‘60s, and I was 13, 14…

  Edward James Olmos, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We must stop using the word “race” as a cultural determinant and start using it for what it really is. It is a unifying word. There’s no two ways around it. The Caucasian people will have to accept the fact that the changes of diversity on the planet are constant, and that we propagate ourselves at a higher rate. So as far as I’m concerned, people, come to terms with it. You want to really understand the future? You’re going to have to understand that there’s only one race, and that’s the human race. Period.

  Edward James Olmos, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My life has been a privilege. I come from a very humble family. No one in my family was an artist or worked in film…I’m not special. I completely understand that what I did, anyone can do it … I learned to do the things I love to do when I didn’t want to do them.

  Edward James Olmos, CC BY-SA 4.0