Andy Garcia

Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), known professionally as Andy García, is an American actor.

When he was five years old, his family moved to Miami, Florida after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume/fragrance company.

García was raised as a Catholic and attended Miami Beach Senior High School, where he played on the basketball team.

During his senior year of high school, he became ill with mononucleosis, which convinced him to pursue a career in acting.

He began his acting career that year by taking a drama class with Jay W. Jensen.

He graduated from Florida International University.

García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood.

He had a short role alongside Angela Lansbury 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.

He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro.

In 1987, Garciá received an acting breakthrough in Brian De Palma's crime drama The Untouchables.

The film starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, and Robert De Niro.

The film follows Eliot Ness as he forms the Untouchables law enforcement team to bring Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era.

It received widespread critical acclaim and was a financial success.

He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990).

In 1988, García played the main role in the music video clip of the British boyband Breathe.

The song is called: "How can I fall" and reached #3 in the Billboard hot 100 in 1988.

In 1989, García acted in the Ridley Scott action thriller Black Rain with Michael Douglas as Detective Charlie Vincent.

The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a financial success earning $134 million.

In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola cast García as Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).

The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and Eli Wallach.

The film concludes the story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family, who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire.

For his performance, García earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination.

He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

In the 1990s, García appeared in the Mike Figgis film Internal Affairs, in which he engages in a battle of wits with a corrupt fellow police officer, played by Richard Gere.

He continued to act in Hollywood films such as Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998).

In 1992, he played a cynical everyman in Stephen Frears' Hero starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Joan Cusack.

In 1994, he played the enabling husband of an alcoholic played by Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman.

In 1995, he portrayed a tragic criminal in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead alongside Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken.

In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), where he received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominations.

He also starred in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

In 2005, García directed and starred in the film The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray.

In 2005, he won a Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album for producing Cuban musician Cachao's record Ahora sí.

García was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba.

His mother, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher and his father, René García, was an attorney in Cuba.

García has two older siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René.

He also starred in New York, I Love You (2008), the dramedy City Island (2009), the romantic comedy At Middleton (2013), and the crime thriller Kill the Messenger (2014).

He has had supporting roles in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Book Club, The Mule and the HBO television movie My Dinner with Hervé (all 2018), and the title role in the Father of the Bride remake (2022).