Background
Andy Garcia was born on 12 April 1956 in Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
Andy Garcia was born on 12 April 1956 in Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
He came to Miami as a kid and was trained in theatre. For the screen, he has done Blue Skies Again (83, Richard Michaels); The Mean Season (85, Phillip Borsos); a snakelike villain in Eight Million Ways to Die (86, Hal Ashby); The Untouchables (87, De Palma); American Roulette (88, Maurice Hatton); Stand and Deliver (87, Ramon Menendez); Black Bain (89, Ridley Scott); Internal Affairs (90, Mike Figgis); A Show of Force (90, Bruno Barretto); Dead Again (91, Kenneth Branagh); Hero (92, Stephen Frears); and When a Man Loves a Woman (94, Luis Mandoki).
In 1993, Garcia directed a feature-length documentary, Cachao, a tribute to the Cuban musician Israel Lopez. In addition, he has been working with fellow Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante on a feature script.
That collaboration has not borne fruit yet, but in the meantime Garcia has moved away from the mainstream and towards increasingly Hispanic material: Steal Big, Steal Little (95, Andrew Davis); Things to Do in Denver When You ’re Dead (95, Cary Fleder); Somos tin Solo Pueblo (95, Maicos Zurinaga); Night Falls on Manhattan (97, Sidney Lumet); The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (97, Zurinaga); as Lucky Luciano in Hoodlum (97, Bill Duke); Desperate Measures (98, Barbet Schroeder); Just the Ticket (99, David Anspaugh); executive producer and plaving Arturo Sandoval in For Love or Country (00, Joseph Sargent); Lakeboat (00, |oe Mantegna); The Unsaid (01, Tom McLoughlin); The Man from Elysian Fields (01, George Hickenlooper); Ocean's Eleven (01, Steven Soderburgh).
Just as Al Pacino played Cuban refugee Tony Montana in Scarface (83, Brian De Palma), so Andy Garcia brought fresh Cuban blood to the flagging Corleones for The Godfather Part III (90, Francis Ford Coppola). Garcias Vincent was a ready whip looking for a masterful hand, and the most urgent force of ambition in that autumnal and resigned picture. And Garcia is surely the actor best poised to inherit the force and position of “the Italian generation."