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John Leguizamo, (born July 22, 1964 in Bogotá, Colombia), is an Emmy winner and a Golden Globe Award nominated comedian, actor and producer of Colombian-Puerto Rico descent. Background Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. His father, Alberto Leguizamo, was a Colombian Realtor living in Colombia who met and married a young woman by the name of Luz. In 1968 the couple emigrated with their children to the United States and settled down in the Jackson Heights section of Queens in New York City where Leguizamo received his primary and secondary education. As a student at Murry Bergtraum High
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Award-winning Columbian-born performer John Leguizamo is the latest addition to the cast of the ever-popular medical drama ER. He is known for his cutting edge comedic performances including Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-Rama, and his Emmy award winning HBO special Freak. John has starred in several films including Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Summer of Sam, and Assault on Precinct 13. Currently he is working on the sequel to the popular animated movie Ice Age.
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At 39, John Leguizamo has an impressive resume in showbiz. By his early 20s, he was already on TV, playing a Colombian drug prince in Miami Vice. Two movies later, and he was grabbing the attention of major Hollywood directors, such as Brian De Palma, who cast him in Casualties of War (1989) and four years later in Carlito's Way.
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A multi-faceted performer and Emmy Award winner, John Leguizamo has established a career that defies categorization. With boundless energy and creativity, his work in film, theatre, television, and literature covers a variety of genres, continually threatening to create a few of its own.
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John Leguizamo stars in this Latin Musical as Antonio, a very talented young musician from Mexico, pursuing his dream of becoming a singer in Los Angeles. Consistently thwarted by constant rejection, he's about to give up when his manager, El Zorro, an eclectic and a colorful radio personality, convinces him to enter a local radio sponsored Latino singing competition. He finally will have his chance to make his music heard...if he can just find a band. At the same time, he finds himself involved in a romantic triangle with two very different women, a neighbor in her 40s (Peña) and a young veterinary student (Talancon). The vibrant on-screen musical performances incorporate the eclectic vibes of Rock En Español, Latin Electronica, Punk and Rap with the smooth sounds of old school Bolero. The film has no traditional score, but rather utilizes the original works of over 20 different bands and musicians.
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Colombian-born actor and comedian John Leguizamo has made a career proving that it is possible to be taken seriously both as a raunchy comic performer and a serious dramatic actor. Since 1991, when he won over audiences and critics with his one-man show, the off-Broadway Mambo Mouth, Leguizamo has been working steadily in film, television, and theater. Whether playing lowlife criminals, conflicted womanizers, or flamboyant drag queens, he has impressed viewers with his often sharply satirical characterizations of Latinos, making fun of stereotypes even as he blows them to smithereens. Born in Bogota, Colombia, on July 22, 1964, Leguizamo immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of four. Deciding that he wanted to go into acting, he studied the craft at New York University and with the legendary Lee Strasberg for one day before Strasberg died. Of his teacher's unexpected departure, Leguizamo later quipped, "I have that effect on people."
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