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Known for Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs...
Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film Natividad: la historia (2006). He also had a small role in Doble impacto mortal (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Guerrilla(2011). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Ley y orden: Acción criminal (2001). He also had a part in the movies La vida ante sus ojos (2007); Red de mentiras (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Ágora (2009), alongside Rachel Weisz; and Balibo (2009), set amid the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975.
In 2013, Oscar starred in the Coen Brothers' folk music-themed drama, A propósito de Llewyn Davis (2013). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ângela Oliveira
Trivia
He was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano. Oscar's maternal grandfather was of French origin.Studied acting at Juilliard.
Is friends with fellow Juilliard alum Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain.
Worked as an orderly at the same hospital as his doctor-father.
Is a musician and singer, playing guitar. In high school he played in punk bands and later became lead singer of his own band, the Blinking Underdogs.
Personal Quotes
[on modeling his title character in A propósito de Llewyn Davis (2013) persona] For the character I thought a lot about the comedy of resilience. Buster Keaton was someone that came to mind. He had quite an impassive face with a melancholic stare on it. All of these crazy things could be happening - he could be falling in love or a building could be falling on him, but it was all internalized.[on working with the Coen brothers] It was the best experience of my life. They're so generous - not only with their time, but with stories about these people that they've worked with and artists they admire. It was an incredible, joyous process - even though it's quite heavy material. They're very pragmatic. They don't put any impositions on you or come in with any kind of idea in particular that they want you to do. There's room to play.
[on being cast as Llewyn Davis] It was the role of a lifetime, and I just really talked myself into the world of the movie, of 1960s Greenwich Village, New York - the pre-Dylan, great folk scene that was happening and into this character who's both wanting desperately to succeed, and also desperately to fail. And then, on top of of everything the character is, I was learning that repertoire of music, which I wasn't familiar with.. I'd say I definitely found the character through the music. I think that's the window into his soul, his only connection with the people outside.
[re immediate impact of being tapped for "Davis" film] On a practical level, as soon as Joel and Ethan [Coen] cast me, the doors opened up for more parts...Basically the next day [my agent said] we got these offers now. Now you're bona fide, kid.
[re 1960s Greenwich Village music scene]People hated each other. In Washington Square Park, it was amazing because there was all this music, but the drummers hated the bluegrass guys, who hated the folk guys who hated the jazz guys [fighting] over their square inches.
[singing in A propósito de Llewyn Davis (2013)] Sometimes like 30 takes of one song. It was an intense process but I love the music, and I'd been playing them 100 times a day, so playing them 30 was fine. I get obsessed with that kind of stuff. Sometimes I would smoke a bunch of cigarettes and drink a bunch of beer before the take.
[on the impact of moving from small films to big-budget features] My job is still the same. Between 'action' and 'cut', that's mine. No matter how big the production is, that's still my space. That's a sacred place.
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