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My Take
Luis Guzmán is my favorite kind of actor: the one whose face you trust before he says a word. Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh kept casting him for a reason — drop him into any frame and the scene suddenly smells like a real street corner. Leading men come and go, but a character actor who stays in demand for four decades is proof of something rarer than stardom: total reliability plus genuine warmth. I find his career a quiet rebuke to Hollywood's obsession with conventional looks. Every industry needs its load-bearing players, and Guzmán has carried more films than most stars ever will.
Overview
Luis Guzmán (born August 28, 1956) is a Puerto Rican actor. His career spans over 40 years and includes a number of films and television series. He has appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's films Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and Steven Soderbergh's films Out of Sight (1998), The Limey (1999) and Traffic (2000).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Luis Gómez
- Name (Japanese)
- ルイス・ガスマン
- Reading
- るいす・がすまん
- Born
- October 22, 1956 (age 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Monkey
- Origin
- Cayey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / character actor / film actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Seward Park High School
- University
- City College of New York
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.