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Born April 12, 1956 in Havana, Cuba Birth Name Andrés Arturo García Menéndez Height 5' 9¼" (1.76 m)

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Trivia (21)

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#65). [1995]



Family emigrated to the US in 1961, when Andy was 5 years old.



Father of three girls and one boy.



Was born as a conjoined twin. His twin was no bigger than a tennis ball and was surgically removed. All that remains is a scar on his shoulder.



Refuses to do nude scenes. He once walked out of a audition when asked to remove his shirt.



Gained weight when his wife was pregnant with three of their children.



Fact: Owns 25 conga drums, collects hats, and wears a beret in the winter.





Son, Andrés Garcia-Lorido , was born Monday, January 28, 2002, in Los Angeles, tipping the scales at 7 pounds, 13 ounces.



His daughter, Alessandra Garcia-Lorido , was born on June 20, 1991, in Los Angeles, California.



Daughter, Daniella Garcia , was born on January 3, 1988.

Son of Rene Garcia (attorney who died in 1993) and Amelie Garcia (English teacher).





Daughter Dominik Garcia born in 1984.

Has an older brother named Rene Garcia.





His niece is Jackie Garcia. She was the fiancée of slain Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor at the time of his death.



Turned down the role of "Detective Mac Taylor" (The character played by Gary Sinise ) on the popular CBS crime drama CSI: New York (2004).



Longtime friend of actor Mickey Rourke . Has said that Rourke was his high school baseball coach.

Currently lives in Toluca Lake, California, with his wife and children. [December 2004]



Garcia has worked with all 3 actors who played Bruce Wayne/Batman in the Burton/Schumacher 'Batman' films. He and Michael Keaton appeared in "Desperate Measures" (1998). He and Val Kilmer appeared in "5 Days of War" (2011). He and George Clooney appeared in "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), and "Ocean's Thirteen" (2007).



Starred in two different films where he played the protagonist who, upon arriving on horseback, shot and killed an antagonist. The two films were "The Godfather: Part III" and "For Greater Glory".



Personal Quotes (8)

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.



Freedom is not negotiable.



They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.



I never applied to go back to Cuba. They did invite me to the Havana Film Festival, but I am opposed to the regime in Cuba. I'd have liked to go back every day of my life. But in honor of all the people who have died and suffered under that regime, I'm not able to make that leap.



I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.



I spent seven years without working, so if they're making cop movies, I'll play cops. I got two kids to bring up.





Jennifer 8 ist die Nächste (1992) is a movie that was reduced by 20 minutes and they took the heart out of the picture. They took three or four scenes of the interrogation out between me and John Malkovich . The script was originally called A Policeman's Story, and in the end, there was no policeman's story! It was a movie about him dealing with demons, and finding light and a muse in this blind girl. And there was an alcoholic struggle in the script which is not in the movie. It was a better film at 2 hours and 20 minutes long instead of 2 hours. There were electrifying moments between my character and Malkovich, and that interrogation was precluded by an all-night alcoholic binge by my character. When they come to arrest me, I was naked, with my pants down, in complete emotional shambles. But they cut that out and diminished the whole film. My character was in a very pitiful situation, and had begun to drink again because of the death of his partner. So when you cut to me sitting in the interrogation room all cleaned up, it's a front. So consequently it's a totally different movie. It's a thriller, and it works as a thriller, but that's all it is. How do you deeply care about people if you don't give the audience a chance to care about them or to understand them? That was my argument. So that was painful on many fronts, that whole process, for everybody concerned, really.