Andy García

Garcia was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba. His mother, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher and his father, René García Núñez, was an avocado farmer and attorney in Cuba who later owned a fragrance business in the United States.[1][2] García has two older siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René.[3] When García was five years old, his family moved to Miami, Florida, after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume company. García was raised as a Roman Catholic[4][5][4] and attended Miami Beach Senior High School, where he played on the basketball team. During his last year in high school, he became ill with Mono,[6] which convinced him to pursue a career in acting. He began his acting career by taking a drama class with Jay W. Jensen in his senior year. He graduated from Florida International University.[7]

At the flight line tower, İncirlik Air Base, Turkey, December 7, 2001

García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He had a short role in the first episode of Murder, She Wrote as "1st white tough", in 1984. He played the role of a gang member in the first episode of TV series Hill Street Blues. He appeared in a supporting role in The Mean Season in 1985, alongside Kurt Russell,[8] and director Brian De Palma cast him in The Untouchables in 1987.[9]

García acted in the Ridley Scott film Black Rain in 1989 with Michael Douglas.[10] Francis Ford Coppola cast Garcia as Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone, in The Godfather Part III.[11] García earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance.[12]

In the 1990s, García appeared in Internal Affairs, in which he engages in a battle of wits with a corrupt fellow police officer, played by Richard Gere. He played a cynical everyman in Hero, the enabling husband of an alcoholic in When a Man Loves a Woman, a tragic criminal in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, a hotshot lawyer in the drama Night Falls on Manhattan and a cop trying to save his gravely ill son in the action thriller Desperate Measures. He played mobster Lucky Luciano in Hoodlum.

He portrayed the arrogant Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict in Ocean's Eleven, a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper movie. He also appeared in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve and in the third film, Ocean's Thirteen.

He co-wrote, directed, and starred in The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray.[13]

In 2006, he appeared in the last episode of the Turkish TV series Kurtlar Vadisi, along with Sharon Stone.

Hemingway project

At the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival with Julianna Margulies (left) and his daughter Dominik García-Lorido

García has been slated to direct the upcoming film Hemingway & Fuentes about famous writer Ernest Hemingway co-written by García and Hemingway's niece Hilary Hemingway. Originally, announced stars included Anthony Hopkins, Annette Bening and García himself. Filming was originally to have begun in January 2013,[17][18] but due to delays, Hopkins left the project and Garcia announced that the role of Hemingway would be played by actor Jon Voight.[19][20]

In 1982, García married Marivi Lorido.[21] The couple has four children: daughters Dominik García-Lorido (b. 1983), Daniella (b. 1988), Alessandra (b. 1991) and son Andres (b. 2002).[22][23] The family divide their time between Toluca Lake, Los Angeles and Key Biscayne, Florida.[24][25]

García has expressed, on a number of occasions, his distaste to the communist regime that has ruled Cuba since the revolution that occurred there from 1953 to 1959.[26][27][28] Following Fidel Castro's death in November 2016, García criticized his legacy, stating: "It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people...that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime."[26]

García is a Catholic.[29]

• 1995: Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2002: Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 2006: Received the Anthony Quinn Award for Achievement in Motion Pictures from The American Latino Media Arts Award
• 2019: Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes[33]

• List of people from Miami

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• "Andy Garcia interview on his City Island diet". Finance Foodie. March 2010.
• "Andy Garcia interview for Smokin' Aces". MovieHole.net. Archived from the original on January 11, 2007.
• Boutilier, Corey (Executive Director} (March 21, 2006). "VIDEO: Andy Garcia at the Miami Film Festival and his new independent film 'Lost City' (Andy speaks to independentfilm.com about his new film set in 1950's Cuba. The film had an emotional screening at the 2006 Miami International Film Festival. (TRT 5min, 9MB)". IndependentFilm.com.
• Bradshaw, Lisa. "Andy Garcia – Film star returns to Ghent after 22 years: 'I've come full circle'". Flanders Today. Archived from the original on November 24, 2010.
• "Photos "Cristiada": Andy García filming in Durango, México". HoyCinema.com Blogs.