John Leguizamo

Actor 

A multi-faceted performer and Emmy Award winner, John Leguizamo has established a career that defies categorization. With boundless energy and creativity, his work in film, theatre, television, and literature covers a variety of genres, continually threatening to create a few of its own.

Leguizamo recently completed production on Overture Films' Nothing Like the Holidays also starring Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, and Freddy Rodriguez. The film opens December 12, 2008.

Going back to his theatrical roots, Leguizamo currently stars on Broadway in the revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo also starring Haley Joel Osment and Cedric the Entertainer.

Leguizamo can last be seen on screen in M. Night Shamalan's The Happening, opposite Mark Walberg and Zooey Deschanel and Righteous Kill, opposite Robert Deniro and Al Pacino.

This past year John can also be seen in the following Independent Films: The Babysitters, opposite Cynthia Nixon; Brad Furman's The Take, opposite Rosie Perez; and Franc Reyes' The Ministers.

Fall of 2007, Leguizamo was seen in New Line Cinema's Love in the Time of Cholera, the screen adaptation of celebrated writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel. Directed by Mike Newell, also starring Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt and Giovanna Mezzogiorno. The film charts the evocative story of an unrequited love spanning five decades in turn-of-the-20th-century South America, with the tale of 'Florentino' (Bardem) and 'Fermina' (Mezzogiorno). Leguizamo stars as 'Lorenzo Daza,' Fermina's father determined to keep them apart.

Past television credits include: Spike TV's limited series The Kill Point, My Name Is Earl, and ER just to name a few.

Also an accomplished author, Leguizamo penned his autobiography Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends. Harper Collins released the fast-paced, hilarious, and poignant memoir in October 2006.

In spring 2006, Leguizamo was heard in theaters in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, in which he reprised his voice role as 'Sid, the Sloth' and co-stars alongside Ray Romano, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah. Additionally, the ever versatile Leguizamo appeared as a guest star in twelve episodes of NBC's cornerstone drama ER during the 2005/2006 season.

In 2005, Leguizamo earned rave reviews for his role as a popular TV reporter who's willing to sacrifice everything to get the story of a notorious serial killer in Cr�nicas. The film screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and 2004 Toronto Film Festival and was honored as an Un Certain Regard selection at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

For his performance as a sensitive drag queen in Too Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, Leguizamo garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Leguizamo's credits also include Land of the Dead, Ed Burns'The Groomsmen, Lies & Alibis, Assault on Precinct 13, Sueno, Spin, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (ALMA nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actor), Ice Age, Spike Lee's Summer of Sam (ALMA nomination, Outstanding Actor), Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's King of the Jungle (ALMA nomination, Best Lead Actor), the cult hit Spawn, Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Dr. Doolittle, Brian de Palma's Carlito's Way, and Brian de Palma's Casualties of War, starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox.