Andy García was born in Havana, Cuba, to Amelie Menéndez, an English teacher, and René García Núñez, a lawyer who also worked as an avocado farmer and later established a fragrance business in the United States. His family moved to Miami, Florida, where García attended Miami Beach Senior High School. While in high school, he was a member of the basketball team. During his later years in school, García contracted mononucleosis, which left him bedridden for an extended period. This experience led him to reevaluate his career goals and ultimately inspired him to pursue acting. He began taking drama classes under the guidance of Jay W. Jensen in his senior year and went on to graduate from Florida International University in Miami.
Following his graduation, García pursued acting more seriously and began securing roles in both television and film. His first on-screen appearance was a brief role in the pilot episode of the television series "Murder, She Wrote" in 1984. His breakout came in 1989 when he appeared in Ridley Scott’s action-thriller Black Rain, starring alongside Michael Douglas. That same year, he was cast by Francis Ford Coppola as Vincent Mancini in The Godfather Part III (1990). García's performance in the final installment of the iconic trilogy earned him critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Throughout the 1990s, Andy García solidified his status as a versatile film actor. He starred in Internal Affairs (1990), playing a straight-arrow cop opposite Richard Gere's corrupt officer. In 1992, he portrayed a conflicted good Samaritan in the film Hero, and in 1994, he took on the emotionally complex role of the supportive husband of an alcoholic in When a Man Loves a Woman. In 1997, García played a determined district attorney in Sidney Lumet’s crime drama Night Falls on Manhattan, followed by a role as a desperate police officer trying to save his gravely ill son in the suspense thriller Desperate Measures (1997).
| Birth Date: | 12 Apr, 1956 |
| Age: | 64 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America Cuba |
| Birth Place: | Havana |
| residence: | Toluca Lake |
| Education: | Florida International University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American actor and director |
| Net Worth 2021: | 20 million |
