John Leguizamo

John Leguizamo (born in Bogotá, Colombia, July 22, 1960) acted in movies like Super Mario Bros. (1993), Carlito’s Way (1993) by Brian De Palma, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) by Beeban Kidron. He played Tybalt in William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge! (2001) both directed by Baz Lurham. He starred in the The Pest (1997), Summer of Sam (1999) by Spike Leigh. He acted in Collateral Damage (2002) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) directed by Mike Newell from the 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez, Chef (2014) by Jon Favreau, The Crash (2017), The Survivor (2021) by Barry Levinson, The Menu (2022) by Mark Mylod.

Leguizamo wrote and performed on stage one-man comedy shows like Mambo Mouth (1991), Spic-O-Rama (1993), Freak (1998), Latin History for Morons (2017).