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Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. His father, Alberto Leguizamo, was a Puerto Rican Realtor living in Colombia who met and married a young Colombian woman by the name of Luz. In 1968 the couple immigrated with their children to the United States and settled down in the Jackson Heights section of Queens in New York City. Leguizamo received his primary and secondary education in Queens. As a student in high school, Leguizamo would write comical material and test it out on his classmates. He was voted "Most Talkative" by his fellow classmates. After graduating from high school (Murry Bergtraum High School), Leguizamo enrolled at New York University where he took theater classes. Leguizamo started out as a stand-up comic doing the New York nightclub circuit. In 1984, he made his T.V. debut with a small part in Miami Vice. In 1985, Leguizamo landed a small uncredited part, making his movie debut, in Mixed Blood and in 1989 he also had a small part in Casualties of War. In 1991, Leguizamo participated in Hanging with the Homeboys. That same year, he wrote and participated in the Off-Broadway production Mambo Mouth, where he played seven different characters. Mambo Mouth won an Obie Award and an Outer Critics Award. He was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1991" in "John Willis' Screen Worlds Vol. 43".
In 1993, Leguizamo wrote and participated in Spic-O-Rama, where he made
fun of the stereotyping of Latinos in the U.S.. The production won a
Drama Desk Award and four Cable ACE Awards. The 1993 movie production
Super Mario Brothers where he played the role of "Luigi Mario", is
considered to be the film which skyrocketed his acting career in
Hollywood, even though the film bombed spectacularly. Since then, other
movies followed, such as: Carlito's Way (1993) as "Benny Blanco"
alongside Al Pacino, Romeo + Juliet (1996) as "Tybalt", The Fan (1996)
as "Manny", Executive Decision (1996) as "Captain Rat", as con man
Pestario "Pest" Vargas The Pest in 1997 in which he starred alongside
his wife at one point, Yelba Osorio whom he later was divorced from,
Doctor Dolittle (1998) as "Rat#2", Summer of Sam (1999) and Moulin
Rouge! as "Toulouse Lautrec". In 2000, Leguizamo played two genies in
the Emmy Award winning miniseries Arabian Nights. Leguizamo has
participated in over 53 films, including The Alibi where he will play
the role of "Hannibal" and which is in the post-production stages as of
2005.
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