American actor
Oscar Isaac has received several accolades for his work, including one
Golden Globe Award ,
National Board of Review Award and
Australian Film Institute Award each. His career began as a teenager with a minor role in the film
Illtown (1998), followed by parts on stage in
Joseph Adler 's 2000 productions of
This Is Our Youth and
Side Man . Isaac landed his first major role in the biblical drama film
The Nativity Story (2006). He played
Romeo alongside
Lauren Ambrose in the
Public Theater 's
Romeo and Juliet (2007). For much of the rest of the 2000s, Isaac played minor roles in films—the thriller
The Life Before Her Eyes (2007), the biopic
Che (2008), the spy thriller
Body of Lies (2008) and the Spanish historical drama
Agora (2009). He won the
AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as
José Ramos-Horta in
Balibo (2009). In 2010, Isaac played villain
King John in
Robin Hood . His profile increased with four roles in 2011. These included an asylum orderly in the fantasy
Sucker Punch and an ex-convict in the critically acclaimed action drama
Drive (2011). He had four film releases in 2012, including
For Greater Glory , for which he was nominated for an
ALMA Award for Favorite Movie Actor – Supporting Role.
In 2013, Isaac had his breakthrough playing the eponymous role of a struggling folk singer in the musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis , which resulted in several film offers. For the film, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . He followed this by playing an ambitious man struggling to keep his business intact in a violent city in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), where he contributed to the creation of his character's background. For his performance in the film, Isaac won a National Board of Review Award for Best Actor . In 2015, he portrayed the reclusive inventor of a gynoid in the science fiction film Ex Machina , and played his first leading role on television—the miniseries Show Me a Hero . His role in the latter garnered him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film . Isaac became a superstar after playing Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019) and Star Wars Resistance (2018–2020). He took on the role of the titular villain in the commercially successful superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).
In 2017, Isaac possibly became the first Latino actor to play Hamlet in a major US production after he was cast in the Public Theater's Hamlet . Isaac's work in 2018 included roles in the science fiction film Annihilation and the historical drama Operation Finale , the latter of which he also produced. He then reunited with A Most Violent Year director J. C. Chandor in the action adventure film Triple Frontier (2019). Two years later, he starred in the science fiction film Dune , the drama The Card Counter and the HBO miniseries Scenes from a Marriage . The lattermost garnered him a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. In 2022, Isaac joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe by playing the titular superheroes in the miniseries Moon Knight , for which he was nominated for a MTV Movie Award for Best Hero ; he also served as an executive producer for the show.
Filmography
Film
Key
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Television
Video games
Podcasts
Stage
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
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