John Leguizamo

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1964 age 0

   Born

2. 1989 age 25

   CreditCasualties of War

3. 1990 age 26

   CreditDie Hard 2

4. 1993 age 29

   CreditCarlito's Way

   CreditSuper Mario Bros.

5. 1996 age 32

   CreditExecutive Decision

   CreditRomeo + Juliet

6. 1998 age 34

   CreditDr. Dolittle

7. 2001 age 37

   CreditMoulin Rouge!

8. 2002 age 38

   CreditCollateral Damage

9. 2007 age 43

   CreditLove in the Time of Cholera

10. 2008 age 44

    CreditRighteous Kill

    CreditThe Happening

11. 2009 age 45

    CreditGamer

12. 2011 age 47

    CreditThe Lincoln Lawyer

13. 2013 age 49

    CreditKick-Ass 2

    CreditThe Counselor

14. 2014 age 50

    CreditChef

    CreditJohn Wick

15. 2017 age 53

    CreditJohn Wick: Chapter 2

16. 2022 age 58

    CreditThe Menu

17. 2026 age 62

    CreditThe Odyssey

• JFJon Favreau3 titles
• ASAmy Sedaris3 titles
• OPOliver Platt3 titles
• IMIan McShane2 titles
• APAl Pacino2 titles
• KRKeanu Reeves2 titles
• JSJoel Silver2 titles
• KWKarl T. Wright2 titles
• BPBrad Pitt2 titles
• RCRaymond Cruz2 titles

• I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, … I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.

  John Leguizamo, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States, Colombia

Languages

Spanish, English

Years active

1984–

Record labels

RCA Records

Notable works

Ice Age, Encanto, John Wick, The Odyssey

Education

HB Studio, LIU Post, Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Long Island University, Murry Bergtraum High School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts