Armie Hammer
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Armand Douglas Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor. The son of businessman Michael Armand Hammer and the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer.
He began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series. Hammer’s first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his portrayal of the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher’s biographical drama film The Social Network (2010), for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Hammer went on to portray Clyde Tolson in the biopic J. Edgar (2011), play the title character in the western The Lone Ranger (2013), and star as Illya Kuryakin in the action film The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015). In 2017, he starred in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama Call Me by Your Name, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. The following year, he portrayed Martin D. Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018). On Broadway theatre, he starred in a production of Straight White Men in 2018.
Hammer was in contact with the family of the infamous drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal and secured the rights to film the life story of the cartel leader. He then had a role in the ensemble of Tom Ford’s psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals, played Ord in the action film Free Fire, which was written and directed by Ben Wheatley, and played U.S. Marine Mike Stevens, in Mine.
In 2017 Hammer starred as Oliver in Call Me by Your Name, starring opposite Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg. The film, an adaptation of an André Aciman novel of the same name, was directed by Luca Guadagnino. Production began in May 2016, and the film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. For his performance, Hammer received acclaim and nominations for the Critics’ Choice Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Film critic Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair asserted that Hammer utilized “his ludicrous proportions and chiseled handsomeness to great, surprisingly witty and sensitive effect.” The Atlantic’s David Sims remarked, “Hammer, who could so easily be reduced to the part of a typically handsome Hollywood stand-in, is mesmerizing; he switches between Oliver’s public brashness and private tenderness with ease, making his character far more than a simple object of Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune declared that Hammer’s performance in the film was “the most easy-breathing and relaxed best work of his career”. Hammer’s acclaim was further echoed by Peter Travers; he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine: “a revelation, giving his most complex screen role to date the tightrope thrill of full immersion.” Often highlighted was the “ridiculous chemistry” between Hammer and Chalamet, in which Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com found the pairing successful, in part due to Hammer’s skill in finding the “tricky balance between the character’s swagger and his vulnerability as he gives himself over to this exciting affair.” Hammer also narrated the audiobook, which was published by Macmillan Publishers.
In the same year he voiced Jackson Storm, the main antagonist, in Disney-Pixar’s animated film Cars 3, as well as starred alongside Geoffrey Rush in Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait. The film premiered at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival and received a theatrical release the following year by Sony Pictures Classics to favorable reviews. Owen Gleiberman of Variety magazine praised Hammer’s ability to “suggest turbulent eddies of thought beneath the blondish Clark Kent looks and preppie The Village Voice critic found the performances “uniformly strong” and cited Hammer’s portrayal of American author James Lord as the “comic highlight”.
Hammer at the 2017 Berlinale
In 2018, Hammer co-starred in Boots Riley’s dark comedy Sorry to Bother You alongside Lakeith Stanfield, Steven Yeun, and Tessa Thompson. Film Journal International critic Tomris Laffly described Hammer’s character, Steve Lift, as an “irresistibly funny” and “coke-snorting, abominable villain”. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20. The film won the 2019 National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films award and also won Best Screenplay and Best First Feature at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards. He then appeared as David in the thriller Hotel Mumbai, about the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2018. In the same year, Hammer starred alongside Felicity Jones, playing taxation law expert Martin D. Ginsburg, the spouse of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in On the Basis of Sex, a biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ginsburg, directed by Mimi Leder. It premiered at the AFI Fest on November 8, 2018. In June 2018, Hammer led as Drew in Straight White Men at Second Stage Theater on Broadway. For his notable film works from 2017 to 2018, Hammer was awarded “Outstanding Achievement in Cinema” by The SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
In 2019, Hammer starred in Babak Anvari’s psychological horror film Wounds along with Dakota Johnson. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019. He then joined Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly in the opioid crisis thriller Dreamland. He starred as Maxim de Winter in the 2020 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic romance Rebecca, directed by Ben Wheatley and co-starring Lily James.
Hammer and his wife, Elizabeth Chambers, at the 2016 London Film Festival
He has been cast in director Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. Set to be released in 2021, the film will co-star Branagh, along with Gal Gadot and Letitia Wright. He will co-star in Taika Waititi’s upcoming sports comedy Next Goal Wins alongside Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Beulah Koale, and Rachel House.
In January 2021, Hammer announced he would be stepping down from his role in Shotgun Wedding, a Lionsgate movie he was to star in alongside Jennifer Lopez. The announcement came in the wake of screenshots of Instagram messages purportedly from Hammer circulated on social media. The messages were described as “disturbing sexual fantasies” which included cannibalism. Hammer has denied these allegations. He also stepped down from his role as Al Ruddy in the upcoming Paramount Plus series The Offer.
