Armie Hammer

Armand Douglas Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor.

He began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.

Armand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica, California.

His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer, and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owned several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film/television production company.

He has a younger brother, Viktor, named after their great-granduncle Victor Hammer.

Hammer has described his background as "half Jewish".

His paternal great-grandfather was oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer, whose parents were Jewish emigrants to the U.S. from the Russian Empire.

Armand's father, Julius Hammer, was from Odesa and was an early activist in the U.S. Communist Party in New York.

Armie's paternal great-grandmother was the Russian-born actress and singer Baroness Olga Vadimovna von Root, from Sevastopol, the daughter of a tsarist general.

His paternal grandmother was from Texas, while his mother's family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Hammer resided in Highland Park, Texas, an affluent town in the Dallas area, for several years.

When he was seven, his family moved to the Cayman Islands, where they lived for five years, and then settled in Los Angeles.

While residing in the Cayman Islands, he attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour and Grace Christian Academy (a school founded by his father) in West Bay, Grand Cayman.

As a teen, he attended Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley.

He dropped out of high school in eleventh grade to pursue an acting career.

However, he subsequently took college courses at UCLA.

Hammer said his parents disowned him when he decided to leave school and take up acting but later became supportive and proud of his work.

Hammer's professional acting career began with small guest appearances in the television series Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, Reaper and Desperate Housewives.

His first ventures into film began with a minor role in the 2006 film Flicka, as well as co-starring in a 2008 psychological thriller, Blackout.

After a long search, Hammer was hand-picked in 2007 by filmmaker George Miller to star in the planned superhero film Justice League: Mortal, as Batman/Bruce Wayne.

The film, which was to be directed by Miller, was eventually canceled.

The film's cancellation came in large part due to the looming 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike as well as stalled budgetary rebate negotiations with the Australian Government.

His first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his double role portraying 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.

His first leading role in film came with his portrayal of the Christian evangelist Billy Graham in Billy: The Early Years, which premiered in October 2008.

The film garnered Hammer a "Faith and Values Award" nomination in the Grace Award category, which is awarded for the Most Inspiring Performance in Movie or Television by Mediaguide, an organization that provides movie reviews from a Christian perspective.

In 2009, he played Harrison Bergeron in 2081, based on the short story of the same name by author Kurt Vonnegut, which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival.

In 2010 Hammer's breakthrough film role was in David Fincher's The Social Network, about the creation of Facebook.

He portrayed the identical twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, with actor Josh Pence serving as a body double during filming.

The filmmakers utilized computer-generated imagery during post-production to superimpose Hammer's face over Pence's as well as the use of split-screen photography in certain scenes.

In preparation for the film, Hammer stated that he had to learn how to row on both sides of a boat in order to play the twins, who are rowing champions.

Hammer and Pence also went through 10 months of extensive twin boot camp in preparation for their roles, in order to "drill the subtle movements and speech patterns that the Winklevosses would have developed over two decades of genetic equality."

Hammer portrayed Clyde Tolson in the biopic J. Edgar (2011), played the title character in the western The Lone Ranger (2013), and starred 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, he starred in a production of Straight White Men in 2018.

In 2021, multiple women came forward with claims of abuse against Hammer.

Hammer denied the allegations, calling them an "online attack".

The allegations derailed Hammer's acting career; he abandoned several future projects and was dropped by his talent agency and publicist.

From April to May 2023, there was an investigation by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office and the LAPD regarding Hammer.

The authorities declined to pursue criminal charges against Hammer, citing insufficient evidence.