Oscar Isaac
Actor
Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Óscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. His maternal grandfather was of French origin. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2005. Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film The Nativity Story (2006). He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Che: Part One (2008). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Agora (2009), alongside Rachel Weisz; and Balibo (2009), set amid the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. In 2013, Oscar starred in the ... Show more...
Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Óscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. His maternal grandfather was of French origin. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2005. Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film The Nativity Story (2006). He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Che: Part One (2008). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Agora (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, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Show less...
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
As: Poe Dameron
The next installment in the franchise and the conclusion of the “Star Wars“ sequel trilogy as well as the “Skywalker Saga“.
Directed by: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Daisy Ridley | John Boyega | Adam Driver | Oscar Isaac | Carrie Fisher
Triple Frontier (2019)
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Directed by: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Ben Affleck | Oscar Isaac | Pedro Pascal | Charlie Hunnam | Garrett Hedlund
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
As: Paul Gauguin
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Rupert Friend | Oscar Isaac | Mads Mikkelsen | Mathieu Amalric
Life Itself (2018)
As: Will
As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Dan Fogelman
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Olivia Wilde | Mandy Patinkin | Olivia Cooke | Laia Costa
Annihilation (2018)
As: Kane
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Alex Garland
Stars: Natalie Portman | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tessa Thompson | Gina Rodriguez | Tuva Novotny
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
As: Poe Dameron
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Runtime: 152 min.
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Stars: Mark Hamill | Carrie Fisher | Adam Driver | Daisy Ridley | John Boyega
Bobbi Jene (2017)
As: Himself
A love story, portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition. It is a film about a woman's fight for independence, a woman trying to succeed with her own art in the extremely competitive world of dance.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Elvira Lind
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Laura Dern | Bobbi Jene Smith | Ohad Naharin | Or Schraiber
Suburbicon (2017)
As: Roger
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: George Clooney
Stars: Matt Damon | Julianne Moore | Oscar Isaac | Noah Jupe | Glenn Fleshler
Lightningface (2016)
As: Basil Stitt
An origin story, of sorts--LIGHTNINGFACE stars Oscar Isaac as Basil Stitt, who in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself inside his apartment, setting the stage for a profound transformation.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: Brian Petsos
Stars: Kristen Wiig | Oscar Isaac | Erika Rankin | Tim Rock
The Promise (2016)
As: Mikael Pogosian
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Charlotte Le Bon | Christian Bale | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Tom Hollander
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
As: En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Stars: James McAvoy | Michael Fassbender | Jennifer Lawrence | Nicholas Hoult | Oscar Isaac
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
As: Poe Dameron
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Daisy Ridley | Adam Driver | John Boyega
Mojave (2015)
As: Jack
A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: William Monahan
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Garrett Hedlund | Mark Wahlberg | Walton Goggins | Louise Bourgoin
Ex Machina (2015)
As: Nathan Bateman
Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Alex Garland
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson | Alicia Vikander | Oscar Isaac | Sonoya Mizuno | Corey Johnson
A Most Violent Year (2014)
As: Abel Morales
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Jessica Chastain | Albert Brooks | Elyes Gabel | David Oyelowo
The Two Faces of January (2014)
As: Rydal Keener
A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Hossein Amini
Stars: Viggo Mortensen | Kirsten Dunst | Oscar Isaac | Yiğit Özşener | Daisy Bevan
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
As: Himself
A concert inspired by the Coen Brothers' film, 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' which is set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, featuring live performances of the film's music, as well as songs from the early 1960s. Performers include the Avett Brothers, Joan Baez, Dave Rawlings Machine, Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, Colin Meloy, The Milk Carton Kids, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Patti Smith, Willie Watson, ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Christopher Wilcha
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Joan Baez | Jack White | Marcus Mumford | Patti Smith
Making a Scene (2013)
As: Man
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the ...
Runtime: 10 min.
Directed by: Janusz Kamiński
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Bradley Cooper | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Greta Gerwig
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
As: Llewyn Davis
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Stars: Oscar Isaac | Carey Mulligan | John Goodman | Garrett Hedlund | Justin Timberlake
In Secret (2013)
As: Laurent LeClaire
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Charlie Stratton
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen | Tom Felton | Jessica Lange | Matt Lucas | Oscar Isaac
Revenge for Jolly ! (2013)
As: Cecil
Harry (Brian Petsos) is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil (Oscar Issac), to discover that his little dog Jolly...Harry's one true love and the source of light in his dark, solitary life-has been murdered. Brokenhearted and beyond consolation, he vows to track down the dog's murderer at any cost. Armed with a stockpile of firepower in the trunk of his car, ...
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Chadd Harbold
Stars: Brian Petsos | Kristen Wiig | Elijah Wood | Oscar Isaac | Adam Brody
Won't Back Down (2012)
As: Michael Perry
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Daniel Barnz
Stars: Viola Davis | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Ving Rhames | Lance Reddick | Rosie Perez
10 Years (2012)
As: Reeves
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jamie Linden
Stars: Kate Mara | Channing Tatum | Rosario Dawson | Chris Pratt | Justin Long
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
As: #3
New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Jeremy Renner | Rachel Weisz | Edward Norton | Scott Glenn | Stacy Keach
For Greater Glory - The True Story of Cristiada (2012)
As: Victoriano 'El Catorce' Ramirez
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Dean Wright
Stars: Eva Longoria | Oscar Isaac | Rubén Blades | Peter O'Toole | Andy García
W.E. (2012)
As: Evgeni
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Madonna
Stars: Abbie Cornish | Andrea Riseborough | James D'Arcy | Richard Coyle | David Harbour
Drive (2011)
As: Standard Gabriel
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Ryan Gosling | Carey Mulligan | Bryan Cranston | Albert Brooks | Oscar Isaac
Sucker Punch (2011)
As: Blue Jones
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Stars: Emily Browning | Abbie Cornish | Jena Malone | Vanessa Hudgens | Jamie Chung
Robin Hood (2010)
As: Prince John
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Runtime: 140 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Russell Crowe | Cate Blanchett | Max von Sydow | William Hurt | Mark Strong
Balibo (2009)
As: Jose Ramos-Horta
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifie
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Connolly
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Oscar Isaac | Nathan Phillips | Damon Gameau | Nick Farnell
Agora (2009)
As: Orestes
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Max Minghella | Oscar Isaac | Ashraf Barhom | Michael Lonsdale
Body of Lies (2008)
As: Bassam
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio | Russell Crowe | Mark Strong | Ali Suliman | Simon McBurney
Che: Part One (2008)
As: U.N. Interpreter
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Benicio del Toro | Demián Bichir | Rodrigo Santoro | Santiago Cabrera | Julia Ormond
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)
As: Marcus
As the 15th anniversary of a fatal high school shooting approaches, former pupil Diana McFee is haunted by memories of the tragedy. After losing her best friend Maureen in the attack, Diana has been profoundly affected by the incident - her seemingly perfect life shaped by the events of that day.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Vadim Perelman
Stars: Uma Thurman | Evan Rachel Wood | Eva Amurri Martino | Gabrielle Brennan | Brett Cullen
The Nativity Story (2006)
As: Joseph
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes | Oscar Isaac | Hiam Abbass | Shaun Toub | Ciarán Hinds
Pu-239 (2006)
As: Shiv
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Paddy Considine | Oscar Isaac | Valeriu Pavel Dan | Kenneth Bryans | Radha Mitchell
Lenny The Wonder Dog (2005)
As: Fartman
After being implanted with a microchip that gives him special powers, a dog engages a young boy in conversation and adventure. Befriended by a local police officer, the dog, the boy and his friend go on a quest to save the world by undoing the insidious plot of an evil scientist to turn all kids into mindless robots.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Stav Ozdoba | Oren Goldman
Stars: Andy Richter | Sammy Zahn | Craig Ferguson | Oscar Isaac | Joe Morton
All About the Benjamins (2002)
As: Francesco
Bucum Jackson (Cube) is a bounty hunter with a lot of attitude and no interest in taking on a partner. Working at Martinez Bail Bonds, Jackson has unorthodox methods of tracking down low-life criminals, but they work, and one day he hopes to become his own boss and open up his own private investigation firm. Reggie Wright (Epps) is a slippery con artist who is avoiding the law, and Jackson. During a cat and mouse chase, the ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Kevin Bray
Stars: Ice Cube | Mike Epps | Tommy Flanagan | Carmen Chaplin | Eva Mendes
Illtown (1996)
As: Pool Boy
Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when they suspect one of the boys, Pep, of ripping them off, and his accidental death causes disloyalty among the teens, who suspect Dante offed them. All of this is perfect for the ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Nick Gomez
Stars: Michael Rapaport | Lili Taylor | Adam Trese | Kevin Corrigan | Angela Featherstone