Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, Maria, and a Cuban father, Óscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. His maternal grandfather was of French origin. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2005. Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film The Nativity Story (2006). He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Che: Part One (2008). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Agora (2009), alongside Rachel Weisz; and Balibo (2009), set amid the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. In 2013, Oscar starred in the Coen Brothers' folk music-themed drama, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
Movie | Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse | Miguel O'Hara (voice) | 2025 |
Movie | Frankenstein | Dr. Victor Frankenstein | 2025 |
Movie | In the Hand of Dante | Dante Alighieri / Nick Tosches | 2025 |
Movie | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Miguel O'Hara (voice) | 2023-05-31 |
Movie | Big Gold Brick | Anselm | 2022-02-25 |
Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight | Self - Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Moon Knight / Mr. Knight | 2022-05-24 |
Series | Moon Knight | Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Moon Knight / Mr. Knight | 2022-03-30 |
Movie | The Card Counter | William Tell | 2021-09-03 |
Movie | The Addams Family 2 | Gomez Addams (voice) | 2021-10-01 |
Movie | Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Marc Spector / Steven Grant / Moon Knight (archive footage) | 2021-11-12 |
Movie | Dune | Duke Leto Atreides | 2021-09-15 |
Series | Scenes from a Marriage | Jonathan Levy | 2021-09-12 |
Movie | The Letter Room | Richard | 2020-06-16 |
Movie | The Skywalker Legacy | Self | 2020-03-18 |
Movie | Triple Frontier | Santiago 'Pope' Garcia | 2019-03-06 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Poe Dameron | 2019-12-18 |
Movie | The Addams Family | Gomez Addams (voice) | 2019-10-10 |
Movie | The Force of Sound | Poe Dameron (archive footage) | 2018-02-20 |
Movie | Annihilation | Kane | 2018-02-22 |
Movie | At Eternity's Gate | Paul Gauguin | 2018-11-15 |
Movie | The Director and the Jedi | Self | 2018-03-12 |
Movie | Life Itself | Will Dempsey | 2018-09-21 |
Movie | Inside The Operation | Self | 2018-12-04 |
Movie | Operation Finale | Peter Malkin | 2018-08-29 |
Movie | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Interesting Person #1 (voice) | 2018-12-06 |
Movie | Suburbicon | Bud Cooper | 2017-10-26 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Poe Dameron | 2017-12-13 |
Movie | Bobbi Jene | Self | 2017-09-22 |
Movie | Lightningface | Basil Stitt | 2016-06-07 |
Movie | The Promise | Mikael Boghosian | 2016-12-02 |
Movie | Mojave | Jack | 2016-01-22 |
Movie | X-Men: Apocalypse | En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse | 2016-05-18 |
Series | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Himself | 2015-03-23 |
Movie | Ex Machina | Nathan | 2015-01-21 |
Movie | Through the Looking Glass: Making 'Ex Machina' | Self | 2015-07-15 |
Series | Show Me a Hero | Nick Wasicsko | 2015-08-16 |
Movie | Star Wars: Greatest Moments | Self | 2015-12-26 |
Movie | Time to Choose | Narrator (voice) | 2015-09-04 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Poe Dameron | 2015-12-15 |
Movie | Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Self | 2014-03-11 |
Movie | A Most Violent Year | Abel Morales | 2014-12-31 |
Movie | Ticky Tacky | Lucien | 2014-06-21 |
Movie | The Two Faces of January | Rydal Keener | 2014-05-16 |
Movie | In Secret | Laurent LeClaire | 2013-09-17 |
Movie | Inside Llewyn Davis | Llewyn Davis | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' | Self | 2013-12-13 |
Movie | Outlaws - For Greater Glory | Victoriano 'El Catorce' Ramirez | 2012-06-01 |
Movie | Revenge for Jolly! | Cecil | 2012-07-17 |
Movie | 10 Years | Reeves | 2012-09-14 |
Movie | The Bourne Legacy | Outcome #3 | 2012-08-08 |
Movie | Won't Back Down | Michael Perry | 2012-09-28 |
Movie | W.E. | Evgeni | 2011-09-01 |
Movie | Drive | Standard | 2011-09-15 |
Movie | Sucker Punch | Blue Jones | 2011-03-24 |
Movie | Robin Hood | Prince John | 2010-05-12 |
Movie | Balibo | Jose Ramos-Horta | 2009-07-21 |
Movie | Agora | Orestes | 2009-05-17 |
Movie | Che: Part One | U.N. Interpreter | 2008-09-05 |
Movie | Body of Lies | Bassam | 2008-10-09 |
Movie | The Life Before Her Eyes | Marcus | 2007-09-08 |
Movie | Pu-239 | Shiv | 2006-09-12 |
Movie | The Nativity Story | Joseph | 2006-11-30 |
Movie | Lenny The Wonder Dog | Fartman | 2005-08-23 |
Movie | All About the Benjamins | Francesco | 2002-03-08 |
Movie | The Crew | Pal in Restaurant Kitchen | 2000-08-21 |
Movie | Illtown | Pool Boy | 1996-07-09 |