Andy Garcia

He then portrayed Vincent Mancini in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990), earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and becoming the first Cuban to be nominated for an acting Oscar. 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). He also starred in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He also took roles 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), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Book Club, The Mule (all 2018), and as the title role in the Father of the Bride remake (2022). He made his directorial debut with The Lost City (2005), followed by Diamond (2026). For television, he portrayed the title role in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), which he also produced. His performance earned him nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Award. He portrayed Ricardo Montalbán in the HBO television movie My Dinner with Hervé (2018). He stars in the Paramount+ neo-western series Landman (2025–present). In 2005, he won both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award for producing Cuban musician Cachao's record ¡Ahora Sí!.

Andy Garcia studied at Florida International University and Miami Beach Senior High School. The recorded working language is Spanish and English. Residence is recorded at Toluca Lake and Key Biscayne. Distinctions recorded are star on Hollywood Walk of Fame and Great Immigrants Award.

Andy Garcia 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. Garcia has two older siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René. 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. Garcia stated that his family tree is of Spanish descent. He 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.

Garcia began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He had a short role alongside Angela Lansbury in "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes", the first episode of Murder, She Wrote as "1st White Tough", in 1984. He played the role of a gang member in "Hill Street Station", the first episode of TV series Hill Street Blues. He appeared in a supporting role in The Mean Season in 1985, alongside Kurt Russell. In 1987, Garcia 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. In 1989, Garcia 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 Garcia as Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone (James Caan), in The Godfather Part III (1990). The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and Eli Wallach. The film concludes the story of Michael Corleone (Pacino), the patriarch of the Corleone family, who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. For his performance, Garcia earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 63rd Academy Awards, as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 48th Golden Globe Awards. Garcia is the first Cuban to be nominated for an acting Oscar. In the 1990s, Garcia appeared in the Mike Figgis film Internal Affairs, in which his character Raymond Avilla engages in a battle of wits with a corrupt fellow police officer Dennis Peck, played by Richard Gere. In 1992, he played John Bubber, a cynical everyman in Stephen Frears' Hero starring Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, and Joan Cusack. That same year, he co-starred with Uma Thurman in the thriller Jennifer 8. In 1994, he played Michael Green, the enabling husband of Alice, an alcoholic played by Meg Ryan in When a Man Loves a Woman. In 1995, he portrayed Jimmy "The Saint" Tosnia, a tragic criminal in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead alongside Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken. He starred as Sean Casey, a hotshot lawyer in the 1996 Sidney Lumet drama Night Falls on Manhattan alongside Richard Dreyfus, and James Gandolfini. He played mobster Lucky Luciano in Hoodlum (1997) alongside Tim Roth, and Laurence Fishburne. He portrayed a Detective Frank Conner, cop trying to save his gravely ill son Matthew (Joseph Cross) in the 1998 action thriller Desperate Measures starring Michael Keaton and Marcia Gay Harden.

• Illustration — At the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival with Julianna Margulies (left) and his daughter Dominik García-Lorido In 2000, Garcia starred and produced the HBO film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story. The film is about Cuba's jazz scene and the life of trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval. It starred Gloria Estefan as Emilia, and Charles S. Dutton as jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. For his performance, Garcia received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film at the 58th Golden Globe Awards. Garcia portrayed the arrogant Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001), a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper movie starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts. The film was a massive commercial success earning $450 million at the box office. He also appeared in the sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Garcia co-wrote, directed, and starred in The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray. In 2005, he appeared in the last two episodes of the Turkish TV series Valley of the Wolves, along with Sharon Stone. In 2008, he starred in the first segment of New York, I Love You which was directed by Jiang Wen starring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson. Since 2009, Garcia has been slated to direct the film Hemingway & Fuentes about writer Ernest Hemingway, co-written by Garcia and Hemingway's niece Hilary Hemingway. They secured financing for the film in 2012, and Garcia himself, Anthony Hopkins, and Annette Bening were announced as stars. Filming was originally to have begun in January 2013, but due to delays, Hopkins left the project in 2014 and was replaced by Jon Voight.

Towards the end of the 2010s, Garcia had a career resurgence. He starred in four films in 2018. He appeared as Fernando Cienfuegos in the critical and commercial success Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again alongside Cher, Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, and Pierce Brosnan. When asked about singing with Cher, Garcia told NBC's Today show, "It was sublime. One thing is to act with Cher who is a great actress and then to be asked to sing with her". Garcia also starred in the Paramount romantic comedy, Book Club, alongside Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, and Mary Steenburgen. The film was a box office success grossing over $89 million worldwide against its $10 million budget. He also starred in Clint Eastwood's drama film, The Mule alongside Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Laurence Fishburne and Michael Peña. It grossed $174.8 million and received positive reviews from critics. Garcia appeared in the HBO movie My Dinner with Hervé alongside Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie.

In 2020, Garcia starred in Charles McDougall's comedic film Ana. Also that year, he starred in Thor Freudenthal's critically acclaimed coming of age drama Words on Bathroom Walls. The following year, he made an uncredited cameo in the comedy film Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar starring Kirsten Wiig and Jamie Dornan. That same year, he starred in the action films Redemption Day and the Guy Ritchie film Wrath of Man. In 2022, he starred in the comedy Big Gold Brick. He also starred opposite Gloria Estefan again in the romantic comedy HBO Max film Father of the Bride. It is the third filmed version of the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter.Time praised Garcia on his comedic turn writing, "Garcia carries the film ably with his gruff elegance". Garcia appeared in the 2023 action comedy film Expend4bles as Marsh, a CIA agent who is also a double agent and the main antagonist of the film.

Garcia met his now-wife, Marivi Lorido, when they were both students at Florida International University during the mid-'70s when they first saw each other in a Miami nightclub. The couple dated for seven years before tying the knot on September 24, 1982. They had their honeymoon in Spain. The family divides their time between Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, and Key Biscayne, Florida. They have four children: Dominik García-Lorido, Daniella, Alessandra, and Andrés. Dominik was born on August 16, 1983, in Miami, Florida. She is married to Michael Doneger. Daniella was born on January 3, 1988, in Los Angeles, California. She is married to actor Stephen Borrello and the couple has a daughter named Violette Rose. Alessandra was born on June 20, 1991, in Los Angeles. The fourth child and only son, Andrés, was born on January 28, 2002. He has gone on to become an established DJ across Los Angeles and Miami. Garcia has often expressed his distaste for the communist regime that has governed Cuba since the revolution. Following Fidel Castro's death in November 2016, Garcia criticized his legacy, stating: "It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people...that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime." Following the October 7 attacks in 2023 that killed 1,200, Garcia signed an open letter by Creative Community for Peace condemning the killings and calling for the world to "stand with Israel as it defends itself against a terrorist regime in Gaza that seeks Israel's destruction." Garcia is Catholic, and a naturalized citizen of the United States.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1978 — ¿Qué Pasa, USA? — Pepe — Episode: "Here Comes the Bride" • 1979 — Archie Bunker's Place — Manuel — Episode: "Building the Restaurant" • 1981, 1984 — Hill Street Blues — Street Kid Ernesto — Episodes: "Hill Street Station" & "Hair Apparent" • 1983 — For Love and Honor — Medic — Episode: "For Love and Honor" (pilot) • 1984 — Murder, She Wrote — Tough Guy #1 — Episode: "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes" (pilot) • Brothers — Jose — Episode: "Happy Birthday Me!" • 1985 — The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Alejandro — Episode: "Breakdown" • 1986 — Foley Square — Performer — Episode: "The Star" • 1988 — Clinton and Nadine — Clinton Dillard — Television movie • 1999 — Swing Vote — Joseph Michael Kirkland • 2000 — For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story — Arturo Sandoval — Television movie; also producer • 2001 — Frasier — Terrance — Episode: "Bully for Martin" • 2003 — Will & Grace — Milo — Episode: "Field of Queens" • 2005 — Valley of the Wolves — Amon — 2 episodes • 2006 — George Lopez — Ray — Episode: "George Doesn't Trustee Angie's Brother" • 2009 — The National Parks: America's Best Idea — Various roles — Voice; Documentary • 2010 — Top Gear — Himself — Series 15, episode 4 • 2011 — The Simpsons — Slick Publisher — Voice; Episode: "The Book Job" • 2012 — Dora the Explorer — Don Quixote — Voice; Episode: "Dora's Knighthood Adventure" & "Dora's Royal Rescue" • Dora's Royal Rescue — Television movie • 2013 — Christmas in Conway — Duncan Mayor • Doll & Em — Andy — Episode: "Five" • 2014 — Valley of the Wolves: Ambush — Amon — 3 episodes • 2016 — Ballers — Andre Allen — 6 episodes • 2018 — My Dinner with Hervé — Ricardo Montalbán — Television movie • 2018–19 — 3Below: Tales of Arcadia — King Fialkov — Voice; 7 episodes • 2019 — Modern Love — Michael — 2 episodes • Raul Julia: The World's a Stage — Himself — Documentary, American Masters • 2020 — Flipped — Rumualdo — 5 episodes • Elena of Avalor — Hetz — Voice; Episode: "Coronation Day" • 2021 — Rebel — Julian Cruz — Main role • 2024 — Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur — Pad-Varr — Voice; Episode: "Kid Kree" • 2024 — All Access with Andy Garcia — Himself — All episodes • 2025 — Landman — Danny 'Gallino' Morrell — Many Episodes. Among them: "The Crumbs of Hope"

• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result • 1991 — Academy Awards — Best Supporting Actor — The Godfather Part III • Golden Globe Awards — Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture • 2001 — Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film — For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story • Primetime Emmy Awards — Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie • Outstanding Made for Television Movie • 2005 — Grammy Awards — Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album — ¡Ahora Si! (Shared with Cachao and Eric Schilling)

* * * * * * * • Andy Garcia at The Independent Institute

Andy Garcia was recorded at birth as Andrés Arturo García Menéndez. The authorities additionally record the headings Andrés Arturo García Menéndez and Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez. His recorded languages were Spanish and English.

Andy Garcia is recorded as having studied at Florida International University and Miami Beach Senior High School.

• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result • 1986 — New York Film Critics Circle Awards — Best Supporting Actor — 8 Million Ways to Die • 1991 — Chicago Film Critics Association Awards — Best Supporting Actor — The Godfather Part III • 1995 — MTV Movie Awards — Most Desirable Male — When a Man Loves a Woman • 1997 — Nostros Golden Eagle Awards — Outstanding Performer in Film • 1998 — ALMA Awards — Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film — Night Falls on Manhattan • The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca • 1999 — Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role — Desperate Measures • 2000 — Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film — Just the Ticket • 2001 — Outstanding Host of a Variety or Awards Special — Latin Grammy Awards (Shared with Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez and Jimmy Smits) • Satellite Awards — Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film — For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story • 2002 — ALMA Awards — Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture — Ocean's Eleven • Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards — Best Acting Ensemble • 2005 — Critics' Choice Movie Awards — Best Acting Ensemble — Ocean's Twelve • Latin Grammy Awards — Best Traditional Tropical Album (Shared with Cachao) — ¡Ahora Si! • 2007 — ALMA Awards — Best Director – Motion Picture — The Lost City • Teen Choice Awards — Choice Movie: Chemistry — Ocean's Thirteen • 2010 — Satellite Awards — Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy — City Island • 2012 — ALMA Awards — Favorite Movie Actor — For Greater Glory • 2013 — Boston Film Festival — Best Actor — At Middleton • 2015 — Annie Awards — Outstanding Voice Acting in a Feature Production — Rio 2 • 2022 — San Diego International Film Festival — Gregory Peck Award — Lifetime Achievement — Awarded

• 1995: Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame • 2002: Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival • 2006: Received the Anthony Quinn Award for Achievement in Motion Pictures from The American Latino Media Arts Award • 2019: Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes