The film starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Patricia Clarkson, and Robert De Niro. In 1987, Garciá received an acting breakthrough in Brian De Palma's crime drama The Untouchables. He appeared in a supporting role in The Mean Season in 1985, alongside Kurt Russell. He played the role of a gang member in the first episode of TV series Hill Street Blues. He had a short role alongside Angela Lansbury in the first episode of Murder, She Wrote as "1st white tough", in 1984. García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He graduated from Florida International University. He began his acting career that year by taking a drama class with Jay W. During his senior year of high school, he became ill with mononucleosis, which convinced him to pursue a career in acting. García was raised as a Catholic and attended Miami Beach Senior High School, where he played on the basketball team. Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume/fragrance company. When he was five years old, his family moved to Miami, Florida after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. García has two older siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René. His mother, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher and his father, René García, was an attorney in Cuba. García was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana, Cuba. In 2005, he won a Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album for producing Cuban musician Cachao's record Ahora sí. He has had supporting roles in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Book Club, The Mule and the HBO television movie My Dinner with Hervé (all 2018), and the title role in the Father of the Bride remake (2022). He also starred in New York, I Love You (2008), the dramedy City Island (2009), the romantic comedy At Middleton (2013), and the crime thriller Kill the Messenger (2014). In 2005, García directed and starred in the film The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray. He also starred in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), where he received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominations. He continued to act in Hollywood films such as Stephen Frears' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998). He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990). He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro. Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), known professionally as Andy García, is a Cuban-born American actor.
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