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Luis Guzmán

 
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Frequently cast by film director Steven Soderbergh.

Frequently cast by film director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Last name is pronounced "goosemahn".

Born in Puerto Rico, but grew up in Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, in New York. In an interview, he explained that his mother travelled to New York fifteen minutes after his birth.

He worked as a social worker, working with especially young people, he also was very involved with his community, arranging events e.g., before becoming an actor.

Lives in Cabot, Vermont. [2005]

He and Chuck Zito are the only actors to appear in both Carlito's Way and its prequel, Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.

Although he played the father of Nicholas Turturro on two episodes of "NYPD Blue" (1993), he is in fact only five years older than Turturro.