Armie Hammer

At 38 years old, Armie Hammer has this physical status:

Armand Douglas Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor.

The son of businessman Michael Armand Hammer and the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer, he began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.

Hammer's first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his portrayal of the Winklevoss twins in David Fincher's biographical drama film The Social Network (2010), for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hammer went on to portray Clyde Tolson in the biopic J. Edgar (2011), play the title character in the western The Lone Ranger (2013), and star as Illya Kuryakin in the action film The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

(2015).

In 2017, he starred in Luca Guadagnino's romantic drama Call Me by Your Name, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.

The following year, he portrayed Martin D. Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018).

On Broadway theatre, he has starred in a production of Straight White Men in 2018.

Early life and background

Armand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica, California. His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer, and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film/television production company. He has a younger brother, Viktor, named after their great-granduncle Victor Hammer.

Hammer has described his background as "half Jewish." His paternal great-grandfather was oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer, whose parents were Jewish emigrants to the U.S. from the Russian Empire. Armand's father, Julius Hammer, was from Odessa and was an early activist in the U.S. Communist Party in New York. Armie's paternal great-grandmother was the Russian-born actress and singer Baroness Olga Vadimovna "Vadina" von Root (from Sevastopol), the daughter of a tsarist general. His paternal grandmother was from Texas, while his mother's family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Hammer lived in the Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park for several years. When he was seven, his family moved to the Cayman Islands, where they lived for five years, and then settled in Los Angeles. He attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour, Cayman Islands, and Grace Christian Academy, also in Grand Cayman (a school founded by his father in West Bay, Grand Cayman), and later went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley. He dropped out of high school in eleventh grade to pursue an acting career. Subsequently, he took college courses at UCLA. Hammer said his parents disowned him when he decided to leave school and take up acting but have since become supportive and proud of his work.

Personal life

In May 2010, Hammer married television personality Elizabeth Chambers. The pair were introduced by Hammer's friend, artist Tyler Ramsey. They have two children. On July 10, 2020, Hammer and Chambers announced their separation via Instagram.

In 2011, Hammer was arrested at a United States Border Patrol checkpoint in West Texas after marijuana was discovered in his car. El Paso's attorney declined to prosecute the case, as the amount of marijuana Hammer had would amount to a misdemeanor. In 2013, Hammer said the arrest "was a misunderstanding of laws and interstate laws versus state laws and apparently federal laws supersede state laws."

In 2022, Hammer was living in the Cayman Islands to be near Chambers and their children; he was said to have a job selling timeshares, after a previous stint working as a manager for an apartment complex.

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Career

Hammer's professional career began with small guest appearances in the television series Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, Reaper, and Desperate Housewives. His first film appearances came as a result of a minor role in the 2006 film Flicka, as well as co-starring in a 2008 psychological thriller called Blackout. Billy Graham's portrayal of the Christian evangelist Billy Graham in Billy: The Early Years, his first leading role in film, debuted in October 2008. Hammer was given a "Faith and Values Award" nomination in the Grace Award category, which is prestigious for the Most Inspiring Performance in Film or Television by Mediaguide, a Christian organization that gives movie critiques.

Hammer was hand-picked by filmmaker George Miller, after a long hunt, to appear in the forthcoming superhero film Justice League: Mortal as Batman/Bruce Wayne. Miller's film was eventually cancelled, but it was supposed to be shot by Miller. The film's cancellation was due in large part to the looming 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, as well as ongoing budgetary reform talks with the Australian Government. In 2009, he appeared Harrison Bergeron in 2081, based on author Kurt Vonnegut's short story, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival.

In 2010, Hammer's breakthrough film role was in David Fincher's The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were portrayed by him, with actor Josh Pence serving as a body double during filming. Hammer's visage was superimposed over Pence's, as well as the use of split-screen photography in certain scenes, which was largely emphasized by the filmmakers. Hammer said in preparation for the film that he had to learn how to row on both directions of a boat in order to compete against the twins, rowing champions. Hammer and Pence were both sent by a ten-month boot camp to help them "drill the intricate movements and speech patterns that the Winklevosses would have inherited during two decades of genetic equality." Hammer's portrayal of the twins was "an eerie trompe l'oeil of special effects," according to Richard Corliss of Time magazine, "an astonishingly subtle trompe l'oeil of special effects." Hammer received the Best Supporting Actor Award in Toronto from the Toronto Film Critics Association for his role in the film.

In Clint Eastwood's 2011 film J. Edgar, his next role was that of the FBI's first associate director, Clyde Tolson. Dustin Lance Black's book The epic tale about J. Edgar Hoover's career, in which the titular role was played by Leonardo DiCaprio, was focused on the substantive life. The acting was largely praised, with David Denby of The New Yorker calling Hammer's appearance "charming" and Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter calling it "excellent." McCarthy goes even further in his analysis to include praise for DiCaprio and Hammer's chemistry, including a comment that "the way the homogenetic undertones and impulses are handled is one of the best things about the film; the emotional aspects of the film's performance are entirely convincing, and DiCaprio and Hammer excel during the interplay of innuence, disguised aspirations, and mutual understanding," pointing out that "the way the sexual undertones Despite this, the film received mixed feedback overall, owing to the film's direction and writing, as well as pointed criticism of the makeup used to age DiCaprio and Hammer's characters. Both actors were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards.

In Mirror Mirror (2012), playing Prince Andrew Alcott, the following year Hammer co-starred Julia Roberts and Lily Collins. In an episode of The Simpsons called "The D'oh-cial Network" in January 2012, he portrayed the Winklevoss twins. Hammer appeared in an adaptation of the radio and film serials Lone Ranger in 2013. The film, which was released theatrically in July 2013, was deemed a box office failure, grossing only $260.5 million worldwide on a reported budget of $215 million. In 2015, he appeared in director Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a film remake of the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., opposite Henry Cavill.

In the 2016 film The Birth of a Nation, directed by Nate Parker, Hammer played Sam Turner. The film, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, received both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the United States. Dramatic Competition. Hammer was confirmed in January 2016 that, since 2013, it had been in contact with the infamous drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal's family and had won the rights to film the cartel chief's life story. He appeared in Tom Ford's psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals, played Ord, appeared in Ben Wheatley's action film Free Fire, and played U.S. Marine Mike Stevens in Mine, and played US Marine Mike Stevens.

Hammer starred in Call Me By Your Name in 2017, starring Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg. Luca Guadagnino produced the film, which was an adaptation of an André Aciman novel of the same name. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in May 2016. Hammer received accolades and honors for his work on the Critics' Choice Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Hammer used "his ludicrous proportions and chiseled handsomeness to create a striking, surprisingly witty and sensitive effect," according to film critic Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair. Hammer's acclaim was echoed by Peter Travers in a letter from Rolling Stone magazine: "A revelation," he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine, "the most complex screen role to date in terms of absolute immersion is given." Often mentioned was Hammer's "ridiculous chemistry" with Chalamet, in which RogerEbert.com's Christy Lemire found the pair's success in part due to Hammer's ability in finding the "tricky balance between the character's swagger and his vulnerability as he prepares for this exciting affair. Hammer narrated the audiobook, which was later released by Macmillan Publishers.

He performed Jackson Storm, the main antagonist in Disney-Pixar's animated film Cars 3, as well as in Stanley Tucci's Final Portrait. The film premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival and then received a theatrical release by Sony Pictures Classics the following year in the hopes of encouraging feedback. Hammer's ability was lauded by Variety magazine's Owen Gleiberman, who praised his "suggest eddies of thought under the blondish Clark Kent looks and preppie demeanor." Hammer's portrayal of American author James Lord as the "comic highlight" in the Village Voice review, according to the Village Voice writer.

Lakeith Stanfield, Steven Yeun, and Tessa Thompson appeared in Boots Riley's dark comedy Sorry to Bother You in 2018. Hammer's character, Steve Lift, was described as "irrisibly funny" and "coke-snorting, abominable villain," according to Film Journal International's film critic Tomris Laffly. On January 20, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film received the 2019 National Board of Review's Top Ten Independent Films Award, as well as Best Screenplay and Best First Feature at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards. He later appeared as David in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which was then portrayed as David. On September 7, 2018, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Hammer co-star Martin D. Ginsburg, the spouse of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appeared in On the Basis of Sex, a biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ginsburg directed by Mimi Leder in the same year. On November 8, 2018, it debuted at the AFI Fest for the first time. Drew in Straight White Men at the Second Stage Theater on Broadway in June 2018. The SCAD Savannah Film Festival gave Hammer "Outstanding Achievement in Cinema" for his notable film performances from 2017 to 2018.

Hammer and Dakota Johnson appeared together in Babak Anvari's psychological horror film Wounds in 2019. On January 26, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He appeared in Maxim de Winter in a Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley and co-starring Lily James, and in 2021, he appeared alongside Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly in the opioid crisis thriller Crisis.

Hammer appeared in director Kenneth Branagh's 2022 production of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, a team cast.

Hammer both dropped out of and was suspended from a number of acting companies in the aftermath of sexual and emotional harassment charges, including a sexual harassment investigation. Among these were the romantic comedy Shotgun Wedding, a thriller based on David E. Hoffman's Billion Dollar Spy book, the Broadway play The Minutes, and the Paraphrasedoutput series The Offer.

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