Date of birth 12 April 1956 Birth place Havana, Cuba. Birth name Andrés Arturo García Menéndez Height 5' 9 " (175 cm) Andy Garcia is a Cuban Born, Academy nominated actor.

Andres Arturo Garcia y Menéndez was born in 1956 in Cuba. Due to the Bay of Pigs invasion Garcia’s family shifted to Florida. Garcia started his acting career in the early 80s and his performance attracted many directors including Brain De Palma who engaged him to do the role of George Stone in the 1986 film ‘The Untouchables’. This role made him a popular and well accepted actor in Hollywood.

Garcia’s resemblance to Robert De Niro who plays the role of young Don Vito Corleone, earned him the role of Vincent Corleone in ‘God Father III’. His performance nominated him for an Academy Award for best supporting actor that year. This further added wealth to his acting career and was chosen for many movies by some very controversial movie makers.

Through out the 90s Garcia has appeared in many films including ‘When a man loves a woman’, ‘Night falls on Manhattan’, and ‘Swing Vote’. In 2001, Steven Soderbergh chose him for the role of Terry Benedict who is a rich casino owner, in the film ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Following this he also starred in the sequels ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ and ‘Ocean’s thirteen’.

Andy Garcia also has a twin brother who was born conjoined to him and later they were surgically removed. Ever since childhood Garcia has been a practicing Catholic and was married to Maria Victoria Lorido with whom he had three daughters and a son.