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Andrés Arturo GarcÃa Menéndez – Andy Garcia – was born in Cuba on April 12, 1956, and immigrated to Florida with his family when he was five years old. After struggling for a time, the Garcias built up a successful cosmetics company. Garcia began acting in college, and his first notable on-screen role was in the pilot episode of Hill Street Blues in 1981. He guest-starred in several television programs, and had small roles in a number of films, when he was chosen to play Agent George Stone in The Untouchables, in 1987. From there he drew acclaim in roles in movies such as, Stand and Deliver, Black Rain, Internal Affairs, and The Godfather, Part III. He ... starred in Hero, When A Man Loves a Woman, The Man From Elysian Fields, and Ocean's 11, and has several more films due to be released over the next year.
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Born Andrés Arturo García-Menéndez, actor Andy Garcia was five-years-old when he fled with his family from his native Cuba to Miami, where Garcia's father, a former lawyer, established a successful cosmetics business upon becoming an American citizen. Following his graduation from Florida International University, Garcia moved to L.A. and performed briefly as a standup comic, working as a furniture expediter and waiter when jobs were scarce. While his TV debut was a small role in the 1981 pilot of Hill Street Blues, Garcia did not have to travel far from his adopted hometown for his film bow, Blue Skies Again (1983), which was shot on location in Florida. (Also making her first screen appearance in this forgettable baseball comedy was actress Mimi Rogers). It was not until he was cast as a drug kingpin in Hal Ashby's 8 Million Ways to Die (1985) that Garcia's career really took off.
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