![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Executive Producer, Actor Born: July 22, 1964 in Bogota, Colombia Biography: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... Full Biography
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