John Leguizamo

John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez(/ˌlɛɡwɪˈzɑːmoʊ/, LEG-wih-ZAH-moh; Colombian Spanish: [leɣiˈsamo]; born July 22, 1960, or 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, made over 30 television appearances, and has produced various television projects. He has also written and performed for the Broadway stage receiving four Tony Award nominations for Freak in 1998, Sexaholix in 2002, and Latin History for Moronsin in 2018. He received a Special Tony Award in 2018. Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in New York City. After several years of doing supporting roles in film and television, he rose to fame with significant roles in the fantasy adventure Super Mario Bros. portraying Luigi Mario and the crime drama Carlito's Wayportraying Benny Blanco (both from 1993), followed by a role as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in the road comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995), for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Other films Leguizamo has since appeared in include Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Pest (1997), Summer of Sam (1999), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Empire (2002), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), The Counselor (2013), John Wick (2014), John Wick 2 (2017), and The Menu (2022). As a voice actor, he narrated the sitcom The Brothers García (2000–2004). He played Sid the Sloth in the Ice Age franchise and Bruno Madrigal in Encanto (2021). Leguizamo is also known for his television roles including Freak (1998) for which he received the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. This historic win made Leguizamo the first Latino to win this award in Emmy history. He received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the miniseries Waco (2018) and the Netflix limited series When They See Us (2019). He has also appeared on ER, The Kill Point, Bloodline, and The Mandalorian. In 2023, he hosted the MSNBC series Leguizamo Does America. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Leguizamo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bogotá, Colombia, 1960-07-22

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1984	Mixed Blood	Macetero	59
2	1989	Casualties of War	Private Antonio Diaz	72
3	1990	Revenge	Ignacio	65
4	1990	Die Hard 2	Burke	70
5	1990	Street Hunter	Angel	63
6	1990	Madonna: The Immaculate Collection	Friend of Boyfriend (segment "Borderline")	86
7	1991	NYPD Mounted		0
8	1991	Hangin' with the Homeboys	Johnny	60
9	1991	Poison	Chancho ("Homo")	61
10	1991	Out for Justice	Boy in Alley	61
11	1991	Regarding Henry	Liquor Store Gunman	65
12	1991	That Burning Question		0
13	1991	Mambo Mouth		80
14	1992	Time Expired		10
15	1992	The Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical)	Guess my nationality guy	0
16	1992	Whispers in the Dark	John Castillo	50
17	1993	John Leguizamo: Spic-O-Rama		65
18	1993	Super Mario Bros.	Luigi Mario	44
19	1993	Night Owl	Angel	42
20	1993	Carlito's Way	Benny Blanco	78
21	1995	A Pyromaniac's Love Story	Sergio	49
22	1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Chi-Chi Rodriguez	74
23	1996	Executive Decision	Rat	63
24	1996	The Fan	Manny	60
25	1996	Romeo + Juliet	Tybalt	68
26	1997	The Pest	Pest	46
27	1997	A Brother's Kiss	Lefty	78
28	1997	The Making of 'Spawn'	Self	77
29	1997	Spawn	Clown / Violator	54
30	1998	Body Count	Chino	54
31	1998	Doctor Dolittle	Rat #2 (Voice)	57
32	1998	Frogs for Snakes	Zip	20
33	1998	John Leguizamo: Freak	Self	60
34	1998	Kids Are Punny		50
35	1999	Joe the King	Jorge	61
36	1999	Summer of Sam	Vinny	65
37	2000	Titan A.E.	Gune (voice)	66
38	2000	King of the Jungle	Seymour	52
39	2001	The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'	Self	65
40	2001	Moulin Rouge!	Toulouse-Lautrec	76
41	2001	What's the Worst That Could Happen?	Berger	54
42	2001	Dr. Dolittle 2	Rat #2 (voice, uncredited)	53
43	2001	Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes	Clown / Violator (archive footage)	70
44	2002	Collateral Damage	Felix Ramirez	58
45	2002	Ice Age	Sid (voice)	74
46	2002	John Leguizamo: Sexaholix... A Love Story	himself	55
47	2002	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories	Self	70
48	2002	Zig Zag	Dean Singer	59
49	2002	Point of Origin	Keith Lang	64
50	2002	Empire	Victor Rosa	60
51	2003	Spun	Spider Mike	66
52	2003	Undefeated	Lex Vargas	30
53	2004	Crónicas	Manolo Bonilla	64
54	2005	Assault on Precinct 13	Beck	62
55	2005	The Honeymooners	Dodge	41
56	2005	Land of the Dead	Cholo	62
57	2005	Sueno	Antonio	46
58	2006	The Alibi	Hannibal	57
59	2006	Ice Age: The Meltdown	Sid (voice)	67
60	2006	The Groomsmen	TC (Tony)	53
61	2007	The Take	Felix De La Pena	55
62	2007	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway	Self	72
63	2007	Where God Left His Shoes	Frank Diaz	67
64	2007	Love in the Time of Cholera	Lorenzo Daza	66
65	2008	Paraiso Travel	Roger Pena	69
66	2008	The Babysitters	Michael Beltran	60
67	2008	The Happening	Julian	54
68	2008	Righteous Kill	Detective Simon Perez	59
69	2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Enrico	61
70	2008	Visions of 'The Happening'	Himself	0
71	2008	The Happening: Elements of a Scene	Self	0
72	2008	Ice Age: Surviving Sid	Sid (voice)	61
73	2008	Nothing Like the Holidays	Mauricio Rodriguez	64
74	2009	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	Sid (voice)	68
75	2009	Gamer	Freek	57
76	2009	Rage	Jed	35
77	2009	The Ministers	Dante Mendoza	45
78	2010	Repo Men	Asbury	63
79	2010	Vanishing on 7th Street	Paul	53
80	2011	The Lincoln Lawyer	Val Valenzuela	72
81	2011	The Latino List	Self	70
82	2011	Ballplayer: Pelotero	Narrator (voice)	62
83	2011	Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2	Sid (voice)	65
84	2011	Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas	Sid (voice)	65
85	2012	One for the Money	Jimmy Alpha	56
86	2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Sid (voice)	64
87	2012	The Trip 2	Lucho	68
88	2013	Fish N Chips: The Movie	Chips (voice)	23
89	2013	Tales From a Ghetto Klown	Self	0
90	2013	Kick-Ass 2	Javier	64
91	2013	The Counselor	Coverall Man Randy	53
92	2013	Walking with Dinosaurs	Alex (voice)	62
93	2014	Ride Along	Santiago	63
94	2014	John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown	Himself	66
95	2014	Chef	Martin	71
96	2014	Cymbeline	Pisanio	39
97	2014	John Wick	Aurelio	74
98	2014	Super Mario Bros: This Ain't No Video Game	Self - Luigi Mario	44
99	2014	Fugly!	Jesse	45
100	2015	John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry	Self	72
101	2015	A.C.O.R.N.S.: Operation Crackdown	Fly Boy / Liam (voice)	52
102	2015	American Ultra	Rose	61
103	2015	Experimenter	Taylor	65
104	2015	Meadowland	Pete	58
105	2015	Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe	Sid (voice)	65
106	2015	The Latin Explosion: A New America	Self - Narrator	79
107	2015	Sisters	Dave	60
108	2016	Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall	Self	70
109	2016	Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade	Sid (voice)	64
110	2016	Stealing Cars	Montgomery De La Cruz	63
111	2016	Porzingod		80
112	2016	Ice Age: Collision Course	Sid (voice)	61
113	2016	The Infiltrator	Emir Abreu	67
114	2016	Perros	Misael	50
115	2018	Nancy	Jeb	58
116	2018	John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons	Self	75
117	2019	It Takes a Lunatic	Self	53
118	2019	The Sun Is Also a Star	Jeremy Martinez	70
119	2019	Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage	Self	0
120	2019	Playing with Fire	Rodrigo	66
121	2020	The Night Clerk	Detective Espada	62
122		The Godmother		0
123		Gentille Alouette	Ortiz	100
124	2016	Scrat: Spaced Out	Sid (voice, uncredited)	62
125	2016	The Hollow Point	Atticus	58
126	2017	The Crash	George Diebold	45
127	2017	John Wick: Chapter 2	Aurelio	73
128	2017	11:55	Berto	45
129	2020	Critical Thinking	Mario Martinez	65
130	2021	Waiting for Godot	Estragon	50
131	2021	Dark Blood	Misael	51
132	2021	Encanto	Bruno Madrigal (voice)	76
133	2022	The Survivor	Bill "Pepe" Miller	69
134	2022	John Leguizamo Live at Rikers		0
135	2022	The Menu	Movie Star	72
136	2022	Violent Night	Scrooge	73
137	2025	Bob Trevino Likes It	Bob Trevino	0
138	2025	Tin Soldier	Luke	0
139	2026	The Odyssey		0
140	2026	Ice Age 6	Sid (voice)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Performer	46
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	46
4	1984	Miami Vice	Orlando Calderone	74
5	1984	Miami Vice		74
6	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self	54
7	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	54
8	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self	54
9	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
10	1994	ER	Victor Clemente	78
11	1995	House of Buggin'		30
12	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
13	1996	The Daily Show	Self - Guest Host	64
14	1997	The View	Self	45
15	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
16	1999	The Three Friends and Jerry		56
17	2000	Arabian Nights	Genie of the Lamp	67
18	2000	The Brothers García	Larry Garcia (voice)	82
19	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!		55
20	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
21	2005	American Dad!	Luís Ramírez (voice)	70
22	2005	My Name Is Earl	Diego	77
23	2007	The Kill Point	Jake Mendez	65
24	2008	Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	Self	75
25	2009	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Self	60
26	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	48
27	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
28	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
29	2014	BoJack Horseman	Mr. Buenaventura (voice)	85
30	2015	The Adventures of Puss in Boots	Jack (voice)	70
31	2015	The Adventures of Puss in Boots	Jack Sprat (voice)	70
32	2015	Bloodline	Ozzy Delvecchio	71
33	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
34	2018	Waco	Jacob Vazquez	75
35	2019	When They See Us	Raymond Santana Sr.	82
36	2019	The Mandalorian	Gor Koresh	84
37	2020	Santiago of the Seas	Sir Butterscotch (voice)	80
38	2021	Unxplained Latam	Self - Host	65
39	2022	Sherri	Self - Guest	42
40	2023	Inside with Jen Psaki	Self	45
41	2023	The Power	Rob Lopez	62
42	2023	Leguizamo Does America	Self	10
43	2023	Waco: The Aftermath	Jacob Vazquez	71
44	2024	The Green Veil	Gordon Rogers	81
45	2024	VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos	Self	55
46		Firebug	Esposito	0