Oscar Isaac Net Worth

Oscar Isaac's Quotes

• [on modeling his title character in Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) persona] For the character I thought a lot about the comedy of resilience. Buster Keaton was someone that came to mind. He had quite an impassive face with a melancholic stare on it. All of these crazy things could be happening - he could be falling in love or a building could be falling on him, but it was all internalized.
• [on working with the Coen brothers] It was the best experience of my life. They're so generous - not only with their time, but with stories about these people that they've worked with and artists they admire. It was an incredible, joyous process - even though it's quite heavy material. They're very pragmatic. They don't put any impositions on you or come in with any kind of idea in particular that they want you to do. There's room to play.
• [on being cast as Llewyn Davis] It was the role of a lifetime, and I just really talked myself into the world of the movie, of 1960s Greenwich Village, New York - the pre-Dylan, great folk scene that was happening and into this character who's both wanting desperately to succeed, and also desperately to fail. And then, on top of of everything the character is, I was learning that repertoire of music, which I wasn't familiar with.. I'd say I definitely found the character through the music. I think that's the window into his soul, his only connection with the people outside.
• [re immediate impact of being tapped for "Davis" film] On a practical level, as soon as Joel and Ethan [Coen] cast me, the doors opened up for more parts...Basically the next day [my agent said] we got these offers now. Now you're bona fide, kid.
• [re 1960s Greenwich Village music scene]People hated each other. In Washington Square Park, it was amazing because there was all this music, but the drummers hated the bluegrass guys, who hated the folk guys who hated the jazz guys [fighting] over their square inches.

Interesting Facts about Oscar Isaac

1. He was born in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia Estrada Nicolle, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano. Oscar's maternal grandfather was of French origin.
2. Studied acting at Juilliard.
3. Is friends with fellow Juilliard alumna, Academy Award-nominated actress Jessica Chastain.
4. Worked as an orderly at the same hospital as his doctor-father.
5. Is a musician and singer, playing guitar. In high school he played in punk bands and later became lead singer of his own band, the Blinking Underdogs.
6. Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.
7. He was expelled from private grade school Westminster Christian due to various pranks and instances of misbehavior such as setting off a fire extinguisher in a gym and defacing a mural to make other kids laugh.
8. Isaac's family settled in the U.S. when he was five months old, and he was raised in Miami, Florida.
9. Lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in an apartment that he renovated himself.
10. Has been playing guitar since he was twelve.
11. Started acting in small local play in Miami at Area Stage Company. Till this day, he has a good relationship with owner and manager John Rodaz Sr. to the point that he was one of the first people whom he told that he got the part of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Likewise, John often asks Oscar for his input in any plays that he is producing and thus tends to get a thank you credit in the playbill.
12. He was an avid fan and collector of X-Men comics growing up. He would later play the titular villain in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).
13. In a relationship with director Elvira Lind as of 2012.
14. In April 2017, he became a father for the first time, to a baby boy, at age 38. Child's mother is his partner Elvira Lind.