Andy Garcia is an American actor, director and composer. The talented performer has created a whole gallery of recognizable film images. He became famous for his role as a major mafioso in Francis Coppola's cult saga "The Godfather 3".
The Spanish-Cuban actor Andrés Arturo García Menendez is known as Andy García. He was nominated for the most prestigious film award after participating in a gangster drama.
The path to the vocation
The artist's biography began in 1956. The future performer was born on April 12 in Havana. In the family where Rene's son grew up, the child became the youngest. My father was a lawyer, my mother taught English. After moving to the United States, everyone settled in Miami Beach. The head of the family took up the production of perfumery and things went well.
Andres was educated in the States. The athletic handsome man enjoyed considerable popularity at school. He dreamed of a professional baseball career. However, after a serious illness and long-term treatment, I had to leave the sport. The guy chose the future of the artist.
Andy studied acting. Successful work at Florida International University did not prevent the aspiring actor from moving to Los Angeles. Since 1978, the guy began working in independent theater companies, sometimes appeared on television. The artist has starred in 20 projects over the course of a decade.
1990 brought fame. At this time Andy received an invitation to participate in the filming of "The Godfather-3". He got the role of Vincenzo "Vinnie" Mancini. The temperamental and insidious mafioso according to the plot was the illegitimate son of Santino Carleone.
For excellence, Garcia was nominated for the Golden Globe and Oscar. The directors began vying with each other to invite the star to play gangsters and brutal police officers. Journalists quickly noticed the similarities between Garcia and Strong. Both artists made the list of twin stars. However, the main difference is the difference in height.
Iconic roles
In 2004 Andy played the role of Amedeo Modigliani in the film Modigliani. The main task for the artist was to show the Italian painter as a living person, and not as a static smoothed picture. Garcia handled this brilliantly. The actor claimed that a great partner always provided him with quality work. Thanks to the joint work with Elsa Zilberstein, the hero turned out to be temperamental and passionate.
The comedy-drama City Island was released in 2009. In it, Garcia appeared in the form of a director, producer, screenwriter, and leading actor. According to the film, the head of the family, a prison guard, dreams of a stage career. He secretly attends studio classes. The wife believes that her husband is cheating on her.
Each household has its own secrets, but no one tries to tell their family about them. The truth began to be revealed when Vince, the head of the family, brought home a prisoner who turned out to be his illegitimate son for the weekend.
The actor's repertoire also includes the first persons. In 2011 he took part in the film project "5 Days in August" in the image of the President of Georgia. During the preparation of the role, the artist learned to speak with the appropriate accent, gesticulate, and looked through the recordings of Saakashvili's performances.
In Geostorm, Garcia appeared on the crane as the fictional head of the United States. Andy was invited to take part in the filming of the fantastic melodrama "Passengers". In it, the actor reincarnated as an admiral of the space fleet. In the dramatic film For Greater Glory (Cristiada), Garcia went to a general of the rebel army. The mayor of New York, the artist played in "Ghostbusters".
Family and creativity
Simultaneously with his artistic career, Garcia took up directing. The debut of the novice director and producer was a documentary about his favorite performer, singer and composer Israel "Kachao" Lopez. The title of the painting was "Kachao: rhythm like no one else."The debutant was awarded a Grammy for his work.
Andy is a great composer. His music is featured in The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Ocean's Twelve, The Lost City. He created the lyrics and music for the single "Big Date" in The Speculator.
Everything is fine in the actor's personal life. In 1982 he and his chosen one, actress Maria Victoria "Marivi" Lorido arcia became husband and wife. Their marriage is called one of the strongest in Hollywood. Andy offered his hand and heart to the girl a day after they met.
The family has four children. Dominique García-Lorido was born in 1984. She chose an artistic career, like her parents. Daniella appeared in 1988, younger sister Alessandra and her brother Andres Garcia-Lorido were born in 1991 and 2002.
Time present
The artist is sure that neither fans nor outsiders need to know about private life. There are no gossip or scandals in his biography. Moral principles are not violated by the artist in his work. In bed scenes, Garcia never acts, and in any frame he refuses to appear without clothes.
In all the years of his career, he has never done anything for which he would have to make excuses. And that is what their father is very proud of. In 2018, the premiere of six films with Andy's participation took place.
He starred in the musical "Mama Mia-2", the dramatic television series "My Dinner with Hervé", the action movie "The Bait", the fantastic "Iron Sky: The Ark", the film drama "Anna" and the comedy "Book Club". A performer in any genre is great.
In 2019, he starred in The Drug Courier as Latona opposite Clint Eastwood. The picture shows the real story of a veteran who started the work of a drug courier. He is unaware of his real activities. We hired him as a chauffeur. He is being watched by a drug control agent and a competitor.
