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Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood. He was named the best actor of his generation by Vanity Fair in 2017 and one of the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century by The New York Times in 2020. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2016, he featured on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born in Guatemala, Isaac moved with his family to the United States as an infant. As a teenager, he joined a punk band, acted in plays and made his film debut in a minor role. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Isaac was a character actor in films for much of the 2000s. His first major role was that of Joseph in the biblical drama The Nativity Story (2006), and he won an AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying political leader José Ramos-Horta in the Australian film Balibo (2009). After gaining recognition for playing supporting parts in Robin Hood (2010) and Drive (2011), Isaac had his breakthrough with the eponymous role of a singer in the musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Isaac's career progressed with leading roles in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), the thriller Ex Machina (2015) and the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). He became a global star with the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019). Isaac starred in the historical drama Operation Finale (2018)—which marked his first venture into production—the science fiction films Annihilation (2018), Dune (2021), and Frankenstein (2025), the crime drama The Card Counter (2021), and the animated superhero film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). On television, Isaac was the lead in three miniseries: Show Me a Hero (2015), in which his portrayal of Nick Wasicsko won him a Golden Globe Award, Scenes from a Marriage (2021), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Moon Knight (2022). His stage work includes title roles in Romeo and Juliet (2007), Hamlet (2017) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Oscar Isaac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set in the dark, disease-ridden mud of 1482 Paris, Robert Eggers and Craig Mazin’s Notre-Dame is a psychological gothic tragedy that strips away Disney’s theatricality to embrace the bleak reality of Victor Hugo’s text. Quasimodo (Griffin Santopietro) is a severely deformed 20-year-old youth kept hidden inside the unheated, echoing labyrinth of the cathedral by Archdeacon Claude Frollo (Vincent Cassel). Frollo is an aging, tyrannical judge weaponizing religious fanaticism to mask his own rotting moral core and toxic, repressed lust. Severely isolated, Quasimodo’s fracturing mind copes through vivid, terrifying hallucinations as the stone gargoyles warp into life—manifesting as the manic survival instinct Hugo (Oscar Isaac), the crushing weight of religious shame Victor (Brian Tyree Henry), and the weeping specter of maternal abandonment Laverne (Tilda Swinton).The fragile sanctuary of the church shatters when Esmeralda (Helin Kandemir), a fierce, hyper-vigilant Romani street survivor, flees into the cathedral. She finds unexpected allies in the ancient, compassionate Archdeacon (Bill Nighy) and Quasimodo himself, who experiences a radical awakening of empathy. Frollo launches a brutal, xenophobic purge of the city to claim her, deploying his heavily armored enforcers (Winston Duke and Seth Rogen) alongside the war-weary, PTSD-afflicted Captain Phoebus (Rudy Pankow). When Phoebus chooses his own rank over moral duty, it triggers a catastrophic guerrilla uprising led by Clopin (Danny Lee Wynter) from the Parisian underworld. As the slums storm the gates under a rain of molten lead, Quasimodo must physically and mentally battle his own inner stone demons to save Esmeralda from Frollo's gallows, culminating in a visceral, breathless climax atop the high towers that explores the true cost of isolation and institutional cruelty.
