John Leguizamo

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In this
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John Leguizamo
Leguizamo in 2014
Born
John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez[1]

(1960-07-22) July 22, 1960 (age 63)[1]13:04
Bogotá, Colombia
Citizenship
  • Colombia
  • United States
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • producer
  • screenwriter
Years active1984–present
Spouses
Yelba Osorio
​
​
(m. 1994; div. 1996)​
Justine Maurer
​
(m. 2003)​
Children2
Comedy career
Medium
  • Film
  • stand-up
  • television
childhood
  • self-deprecation
  • family
  • sex
  • marriage
  • parenting
  • race relations
  • racism
  • human sexuality
  • everyday life

    • John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (

    Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Morons in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award
    in 2018.

    Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in

    Sid the Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal in Encanto (2021).[3]

    Leguizamo is also known for his television roles including

    Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the Paramount miniseries Waco (2018) and the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019). He has also appeared on ER, The Kill Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian.[5] In 2023, he hosted the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America.[6]

    Early life and education

    Leguizamo was born in

    Bogotá, Colombia, on July 22, 1960, the son of Luz Marina Peláez and Alberto Rudolfo Leguizamo.[1] His father was once an aspiring film director and studied at Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, but eventually dropped out due to lack of finances.[7] According to Leguizamo, his surname is of Basque origin and he has distant Basque roots.[8]

    Research by the genealogy show Finding Your Roots indicated that Leguizamo does not have Puerto Rican, Italian, and Lebanese ancestry, as he has sometimes stated (the latter of which he claimed through his maternal grandfather).[9][1][10][11][12][13] His family is Colombian, and a DNA test found that his genetic ancestry includes Indigenous, European (especially Iberian), and some African roots.[1] His paternal grandfather was a wealthy Colombian landowner, and his great-great-grandfather, Higinio Cualla, was Mayor of Bogotá for sixteen years in the late 1800s, and was considered an important modernizer of the city.[1] Before this discovery, Leguizamo had claimed that he was Puerto Rican on his father's side, which was one of the reasons he was selected as the Puerto Rican Day Parade Global Ambassador of the Arts,[14] and marched in the parade on June 12, 2011.[15] It was determined that Leguizamo's maternal lineage includes the 16th-century Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar, as well as Jerónimo Betuma, a 17th-century indigenous Colombian of noble birth.

    When Leguizamo was 3 years old,[16] his family immigrated to New York City,[17] where they lived in various neighborhoods in Queens, including Jackson Heights.[12][18] He later credited growing up as one of the first Latino children in the neighborhood as formative in his acting ability: "It was tough. There were lots of fights. I would walk through a park and be attacked, and I had to defend myself all the time. But this helped me to become funny so that I wouldn't get hit." His parents divorced when he was 13 and lived with his mother growing up.[19][20][21][22] Leguizamo and his family constantly moved apartments in Queens, attending multiple elementary schools. Leguizamo was arrested twice as a teenager, once for jumping a turnstile at a New York City Subway station and another time for truancy. His family later sent him to Colombia for a year where he stayed with his relatives.[23]

    Leguizamo attended

    Tisch School of the Arts, from which he eventually dropped out in favor of a career in stand-up comedy. Post-NYU, Leguizamo enrolled at LIU Post and at HB Studio,[24]
    where he took theater classes.

    Career

    Early career

    Leguizamo signing playbills in 2008

    Leguizamo started out as a stand-up comic doing the New York nightclub circuit in 1984, and in 1988, he performed at

    Casualties of War (1989). In the 1990s he played a terrorist in Die Hard 2 (1990), Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991), the robber in Regarding Henry (1991), Super Mario Bros. (1993), and Night Owl (1993). In 1991, Leguizamo also wrote and performed in the Off-Broadway production Mambo Mouth, where he played seven different characters. Mambo Mouth won an Obie Award
    and an Outer Critics Award. He was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1991" in "John Willis' Screen Worlds Vol. 43".

    In 1992, he starred in

    Cable ACE Awards. Both Mambo Mouth and Spic-O-Rama were later filmed for presentation on HBO
    .

    In 1995, Leguizamo created, produced, wrote, and starred in the 1995 Latino-oriented variety show called

    Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
    .

    2000–2009

    Leguizamo at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

    In 2000, Leguizamo portrayed both

    Arabian Nights, a TV mini-series adaptation of the epic One Thousand and One Nights
    . In 2001, RCA/BMG Records released John Leguizamo LIVE, a CD compilation of Leguizamo's stage routines. Among the bits are a primer Leguizamo gives on the history and culture of Latinos in America, which with the dubious tale of the mating of an Inca princess with a Spanish conquistador, thus creating the original dysfunctional Latin family, each member of which is voiced by Leguizamo. The CD also includes a musical intermission, with two salsa/hip-hop tunes, "The Night Before Christmas" and "Gotta Get Some", and footage from Leguizamo's tours and two interactive games, "Spanish Fly Pick-Up Line".

    To promote the 2001 movie

    Globox from Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc. Leguizamo portrayed Paul in the Brad Anderson thriller film Vanishing on 7th Street.[26]

    Tribeca Film Festival

    In 2004, he guest-starred on

    CraveOnline that he was not happy working on the television program. "I was depressed doing ER," he admitted, "I started gaining weight, I was eating doughnuts, I started smoking again. I'm eating McDonald's, things that I know when I'm depressed I do. I tried to kill myself internally."[27]

    In 2006, Leguizamo starred in the television pilot for Edison, a 2006

    homophobic if said by someone else, and that Steven Seagal was an egotist with diva tendencies.[28]

    In 2007, he played Michael Beltran in the movie

    Spike TV aired its drama series The Kill Point, which starred Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, and Michael Hyatt. The show was an eight-part series revolving around ex-war veterans whose bank robbery went wrong, thus ending in a hostage situation. Despite high ratings, The Kill Point was not renewed for a second season. A year later, Leguizamo guest-starred on Sesame Street
    as Captain Vegetable, who tells Elmo to eat his vegetables.

    2010–2016

    Leguizamo at the Chicago Theatre in 2014

    In 2010, Leguizamo also guest-starred on

    Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance[34] and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for his performance in the show.[35] In September 2011, Leguizamo began an international tour of Ghetto Klown in Los Angeles.[36] On July 13, 2012, PBS debuted Tales From a Ghetto Klown, a documentary about Leguizamo's life and the show's development. On November 16, 2013, John taped Ghetto Klown at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ for HBO.[37]

    In 2012, Leguizamo was cast as Derek Trotter in the American remake of the British BBC sitcom

    The Crash, starring alongside Frank Grillo, AnnaSophia Robb, Dianna Agron, Ed Westwick, Minnie Driver, Mary McCormack, Christopher McDonald and Maggie Q.[38] The film is directed by Aram Rappaport and produced by Hilary Shor, Atit Shah and Aaron Becker. In 2014 Leguizamo starred alongside Jon Favreau in Chef as the line cook Martin, a role he prepared for by working as an actual line cook at The Lion in the West Village.[39] Also in 2014, he played a drug dealer in the action comedy film American Ultra alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. He also starred in John Wick as Aurelio in 2014. The Crash was released on January 13, 2017.[40]

    In 2015, Abrams ComicArts published the graphic novel adaptation of Leguizamo's one-man Broadway show, Ghetto Klown. As with the live show, the graphic novel explores the actor/comedian's life and career, beginning with his adolescence in Queens, New York, his involvement in 1980s avant-garde theater, his feature film career, and some of the colorful characters he encountered throughout his life. Leguizamo describes the work:

    "Ghetto Klown is the history that I probably never should have told anyone but my therapist, but it's a real lesson that even if you suffer a certain amount (a lot) of self-doubt and anxiety, you can still accomplish great things. It's a lesson I'm really excited to impart to a whole new audience."

    The comic is illustrated by Christa Cassano.[41] In 2016, Leguizamo played the role of Ozzy Delvecchio in the second season of the Netflix original series Bloodline. Also in 2016, he produced the Q Brothers' Othello: The Remix at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.[42]

    2017–present

    Obie Awards held in May 2018 at Terminal 5.[47]

    In 2018, Leguizamo played undercover ATF agent Jacob Vazquez in the

    Smithsonian Magazine's 2018 American Ingenuity Award in the History category.[54]

    In 2020, Leguizamo played Gor Koresh in season 2, episode 1 of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. In 2021, he played Estragon opposite Ethan Hawke as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot and Wallace Shawn with The New Group Off Stage as a video performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.[55] In 2021, Leguizamo provided the voice of Bruno Madrigal in the Disney animated film Encanto,[56] which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In 2022 he acted in the critically acclaimed Mark Mylod-directed comedy-horror film The Menu alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes, where he played a washed-up movie star attending an exclusive restaurant with his assistant played by Aimee Carrero. Leguizamo based his character on Steven Seagal, with whom he co-starred in Executive Decision.[57]

    In 2023 he briefly hosted The Daily Show after Trevor Noah's departure as part of a series of rotating guest hosts. His brief tenure was a ratings hit, becoming the second most watched of the rotating guests only behind Al Franken. Other guest hosts included Sarah Silverman, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Wanda Sykes, Leslie Jones, Kal Penn, Chelsea Handler, and Marlon Wayans.[58] It also was announced he would host the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America, premiering on Sunday April 16.[6][59] In summer 2023, his play, Our Hood, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, had its first reading at the Guthrie Theater under the direction of Maija Garcia.[60]

    Personal life

    Leguizamo married actress Yelba Osorio in 1994 and divorced in 1996 after two years of marriage.[61]

    He married Justine Maurer, a

    Catholic and Maurer is Jewish.[63] They have two children, daughter Allegra Sky Leguizamo[64][65] (born 1999) and son Ryder Lee "Lucas" Leguizamo (born 2000).[66][67][68][69] They live in Manhattan.[70]

    In 2008, Leguizamo received the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). In 2011, he received the Made in NY Award from New York City.[71][72] In 2018, Leguizamo received an Honorary Degree from Marymount Manhattan College.[73] Leguizamo gave the commencement speech to the Class of 2022 at Vassar College.[74]

    Activism

    In 2004, Leguizamo was one of the celebrity supporters of Voto Latino, co-founded by Rosario Dawson.[75] In 2012, he co-founded NGL (Next-Generation Latinx) Collective to create content for Latinx audiences.[76] Backed by GoDigital Media Group, in 2022 NGL merged with mitú “to create the largest digital-first “Latinx powerhouse” in the US.”[77] Leguizamo has also been heralded as a preservationist for the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.[78]

    In 2016, Leguizamo authored a searing op-ed in The New York Times, calling out Donald Trump's “racist rhetoric” and urging Latinos to vote.[79] As of 2022, he is on the board of directors for the National Museum of the American Latino.[80]

    Leguizamo has also been an activist directly through his artistic work. In 2017, he opened Latin History for Morons at The Public, and it later went to Broadway. Netflix filmed it in 2018, advocating that “teaching Latin history is the first step toward conquering prejudice.”[81] In 2020, Leguizamo's directorial debut, Critical Thinking, was released. He starred in the biographical drama set in 1998 about an inner-city teacher and students who compete in the US National Chess Championship.[82] He said that he wanted to, “create a universal message of hope and spread this message to the world.” [83] In 2022, he performed Ghetto Klown "at Rikers Island Correctional Facility for an audience of justice-involved young men.”[84]

    Leguizamo is an outspoken critic of Hollywood's whitewashing in the casting of movies. In 2022, he spoke out against the casting of James Franco to portray Fidel Castro in the upcoming film Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde, stating "I don’t got a prob with Franco but he ain’t Latino!"[85] In a 2023 interview with TMZ, Leguizamo criticized The Super Mario Bros. Movie for having actors Chris Pratt and Charlie Day voice the Italian-American Mario and Luigi, saying “No I will not [be watching]. They could’ve included a Latin character, like I was groundbreaking and then they stopped the groundbreaking. They messed up the inclusion. They dis-included. Just cast some Latin folk! We’re 20% of the population. The largest people of color group and we are underrepresented.”[86]

    Leguizamo is an advocate for

    LGBTQ+ rights. In 2023, he, alongside other figures, appeared in a video produced by Teen Vogue and online magazine Them called Dear Trans Youth affirming his support for transgender youth.[87]

    Filmography

    Main article: John Leguizamo filmography

    Film

    Selected credits

    Television

    Selected credits

    Theatre

    Year Title Role Venue
    1998 Freak Writer / Performer
    Broadway
    debut
    2001 Sexaholix Writer / Performer Royale Theatre, Broadway
    2003 Broadway Theatre, Broadway
    2008 American Buffalo Walter Cole Belasco Theatre, Broadway
    2011 Ghetto Klown Writer / Performer Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
    2017 Latin History for Morons Writer / Performer Studio 54, Broadway

    Awards and nominations

    Year Award Category Title Result Ref.
    1999 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Variety Special John Leguizamo: Freak Nominated
    Outstanding Performance in a Variety Special Won
    2018 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Waco Nominated
    2019 When They See Us Nominated
    2015 New York Emmy Awards Entertainment Program or Special The Lineup: The Best New York Movies Won
    Interview or Discussion Won
    1995
    Golden Globe Award
    		 Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Nominated
    2001
    Screen Actors Guild Award
    		 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Moulin Rouge! Nominated
    1998 Tony Awards Best Play Freak Nominated
    Best Actor in a Play Nominated
    2002 Best Special Theatrical Event Sexaholix Nominated
    2018 Best Play Latin History for Morons Nominated
    Special Tony Award Received

    Discography

    Charted songs

    List of charted songs, with year released, selected chart positions, and album name shown
    Title Year Peak chart positions Album
    US[88] CAN[89] WW[90]
    "All of You" (with Stephanie Beatriz, Olga Merediz, Adassa, Maluma, and Encanto cast) 2021 71 83 111 Encanto: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Bibliography

    Books

    Comic Books

    • PhemonX #1 with Aram Rappaport, Joe Miciak, and Chris Batista (Nov. 10, 2021)
    • PhenomX #2 with Aram Rappaport, Joe Miciak, and Chris Batista (Dec. 8, 2021)
    • PhemonX #3 with Aram Rappaport, Joe Miciak, and Chris Batista (Jan. 11, 2022)
    • Phenomx #4 with Aram Rappaport, Joe Miciak, and Chris Batista (Feb. 9, 2022)

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