John Alberto Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia, on July 22, 1964. His family relocated to New York City when he was four years old. Alberto and Luz Leguizamo are his parents. He was raised in Queens. Leguizamo wrote jokes and tested them on other students while attending Murry Bergtraum High School. He was voted “Most Talkative” during his senior year, which was unsurprising. Leguizamo studied theatre at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He dropped out before graduating to pursue a stand-up comedy career.
Personal Life
In 1994, Leguizamo married actress Yelba Osorio. After two years of marriage, they divorced in 1996. On June 28, 2003, he married Justine Maurer, a customer on “Carlito’s Way,” in a Catholic-Jewish ceremony. They have two children: Allegra Sky, a daughter, and Lucas, a son. They live in New York City. In 2008, Leguizamo was awarded the Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). He encouraged actor Romany Malco to pursue a career in acting. He backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. Leguizamo received an Honorary Degree from Marymount Manhattan College in 2018. Leguizamo enjoys making people angry with his comedy.
Leguizamo was among the celebrities who called for a boycott of the Goya food brand in 2020 after its CEO publicly praised Donald Trump. He wrote on Twitter: “Goya, farewell! If you can’t profit from us, then you’re against us, Latinx! #BoycottGoyaFoods.”
Career
Leguizamo began his career as a stand-up comedian in various New York City nightclubs in 1984. The following year, Leguizamo was cast as Madonna’s boyfriend in the video for her early hit “Borderline.” In 1986, he made his television debut in a small role on the hit show “Miami Vice.” Throughout the rest of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, he had a number of roles in television and film. One of Leguizamo’s most memorable roles was in the Brian DePalma crime drama “Carlito’s Way,” released in 1993. He also played Tybalt Capulet in Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” alongside Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio. Another notable performance by Leguizamo was as drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in 1995’s “Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar.” For this role, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
Sid the Sloth was voiced by Leguizamo in the film “Ice Age” and its sequels: “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” and “Ice Age: Collision Course.” He also appeared in the 2014 film “Chef” as Martin, a line cook. In the same year, he starred in “American Ultra” as a drug dealer. In addition, Leguizamo appears in the John Wick franchise.” Leguizamo has also appeared on television in a number of roles, including Captain Vegetable on “Sesame Street” in 2008 and “The Electric Company” in 2010. He has also appeared on “E.R.,” “Waco,” “Bloodline,” “When They See Us,” “Bojack Horseman,” and, in the future, “The Power” and “Hypno.”
In 2018, he performed a one-man Broadway show called “Latin History for Morons,” which is now available on Netflix. Leguizamo made his directorial debut in 2020 with “Critical Thinking,” a film about how five Miami high school students became the first inner-city team to win the United States National Chess Championship in 1998. The film was supposed to premiere at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, but it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Leguizamo worked with the film’s screenwriter on the story, which has been in development for over two decades. He also appears in the film as Mario Martinez, the high school’s chess coach. “Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life,” Leguizamo’s memoir, was published in 2006.
Assets and Net Worth
John Leguizamo paid $5.75 million for a townhouse in Manhattan’s Washington Square neighbourhood in 2008. Leguizamo purchased a four-story building with 3,136 square feet that were built in 1899. Leguizamo also owns or has owned a 1,399-square-foot condominium unit in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, which he purchased in October 2005 for an undisclosed sum, a co-op unit at 45 Gramercy Park North in Manhattan, which he has owned since at least 2004, and a 2,449-square-foot house on 7.4 acres in Rosendale, New York, which he purchased in 2003 for $750,000.
He listed a lake house in Kingston, New York for $835,00 in 2011. The house is located just outside of New York’s Catskill State Park, about 100 miles north of New York City, and it has four bedrooms and three bathrooms on a wooded 7.64-acre lot with a pool, screened porch, lake, mountain, and forest views, and a guest house. He listed his four-story East Village townhouse, which he purchased in 1995 for an undisclosed sum, for $3.995 million in 2013. On East 7th Street, the townhouse is 3,491 square feet.
John Leguizamo has a net worth of $25 million as a Colombian-American actor, stand-up comedian, producer, screenwriter, playwright, and rapper. John Leguizamo’s net worth has grown as a result of his work on stage, screen, and television, as well as his voice work on numerous animated series.
Facts
Net Worth: $25 Million
Date of Birth: Jul 22, 1964 (58 years old)
Place of Birth: Bogotá
Gender: Male
Height:5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Profession: Actor, Film Producer, Television producer, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Comedian
Nationality: Colombia
