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Hector Elizondo
Birth at
22 December 1936
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American actor Hector Elizondo was born in New York on December 22, 1936 in the family of Basque Martin Eshevaria Elizondo and Puerto Rican Karman Medina Reyes. Hoping for a better life, his parents, like many people in Spanish-speaking countries, moved to New York. Since childhood, Elizondo showed remarkable abilities in the field of music and sports. At the age of ten, he sang in the Boys Choir, led by Frank Murray. As for sports, Elizondo was the best among his peers in basketball and baseball,
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American actor Hector Elizondo was born in New York on December 22, 1936 in the family of Basque Martin Eshevaria Elizondo and Puerto Rican Karman Medina Reyes. Hoping for a better life, his parents, like many people in Spanish-speaking countries, moved to New York. Since childhood, Elizondo showed remarkable abilities in the field of music and sports. At the age of ten, he sang in the Boys Choir, led by Frank Murray. As for sports, Elizondo was the best among his peers in basketball and baseball, so he was invited to the Pirates of Pittsburgh and the Giants of New York.
Hector Elizondo studied at an ordinary school, and after graduation in 1951 he enrolled in the Senior School of Performing Arts.
Elizondo entered York City College in 1954. At the time, he intended to become a history teacher, but at the beginning of his studies he married and became a father. To feed his family, Hector dropped out of college and went to work. After the divorce, he received full custody of his son.
In 1962, Elizondo joined the Ballet Arts Company, and the following year he danced in two shows: The Great White Hope and Kill One-Eyed. The real success came to Hector with the play Steam Bath, where he played God in the guise of a steam room worker. For this role, he was awarded the Obi Prize. Both in the past and in the present, Elizondo mostly played and plays assistants or friends of the protagonist. In 1974, he starred in
in the action film "Pelham Train Capture 1-2-3" He played the role of a former mobster who hijacked the train. Hector also worked as a voice actor. In Batman: The Mystery of Batwoman, he played one of Bane's villains.
Hector became friends with Harry Marshall in the eighties and is still friends today. Their friendship will be of great benefit to them. The first joint film project that they released was the film “Young Doctors in Love”, followed by several more joint films.
During his film career, Hector Elizondo starred in 130 films. He is an Emmy Award winner, a Golden Globe Award nominee. Elizondo and his wife Carolie Campbell, a famous photographer and publisher, live in Sherman Oaks, California. /