is a critically acclaimed and award-winning actor, producer and musician. In 2016, he earned a Golden Globe for his role on the HBO miniseries “Show Me A Hero” in the Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film category as well as a Critics’ Choice nomination for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries. Two years prior, he scored an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of the title character in the Coen Brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis. He additionally was featured on numerous songs on the film’s soundtrack. That same year, Isaac led J.C. Chandor’s action-packed drama, A Most Violent Year, for which he earned the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor with the film earning the Best Film nod. The following year, Isaac starred in Ex Machina written and directed by Alex Garland. The National Board of Review recognized the film as one of the ten best independent films of the year. In 2015, Isaac starred as the Resistance pilot, Poe Dameron, in the highly awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), the seventh installment in the main Star Wars film series. Directed, co-produced, and co-written by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was the first of a trilogy planned by Disney. Isaac returned as Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and in the final chapter Stars Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Other acting credits include The Promise (2016), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Suburbicon (2017), Annihilation (2018), Operation Finale (2018) of which he also is credited as a producer, Life Itself (2018), Triple Frontier (2019), At Eternity’s Gate (2019), and The Addams Family (2019). Issac also starred in The Letter Room, a short film directed by Elvira Lind, which was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2021 Oscars. Most recently, the Screen Actors Guild nominated Isaac in the “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series” category for his performance in HBO’s “Scenes from a Marriage.”
In 2017, Isaac headlined The Public Theater’s summer production of Hamlet with Sam Gold at the helm. Off-Broadway, Isaac appeared in Zoe Kazan’s play We Live Here at Manhattan Theatre Club, as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and in Two Gentlemen of Verona, the latter productions for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Isaac also appeared in Beauty of the Father at Manhattan Theatre Club and in MCC Theater’s Grace. Additional theatre credits include: Arrivals and Departures, When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba, and Spinning into Butter.
In 2021, Isaac starred in three separate projects that each debuted at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, with Martin Scorsese as an executive producer, starred Isaac alongside Tiffany Haddish and hit theaters this past September. Isaac also appeared in the much-anticipated reboot of Dune, an adaption of the bestselling novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, which hit theaters and HBO Max in October. Oscar’s third project to debut in Venice was HBO’s five part miniseries “Scenes from a Marriage,” an adaption by Hagai Levi of Ingmar Bergman’s classic Swedish series of the same name and co-starring Jessica Chastain. Additionally, Isaac reprised his role as the voice of Gomez Addams in The Addams Family 2, which was also released in October.
Most recently, Isaac starred in Marvel Studio’s “Moon Knight,” which aired its finale episode this past week. Isaac also served as an executive producer on the project.
Next up, Isaac is set to produce Lionsgate’s upcoming film London, under his Mad Gene Media Banner, with Ben Stiller set to direct and will star in James Gray’s period drama Armageddon Time, alongside Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett.
Isaac is also set to star in and produce the adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s Ex Machina comic retitled The Great Machine. Also in the comic realm, Oscar has partnered with Legendary Comics to produce Head Wounds: Sparrow, a graphic novel based on an idea developed by Oscar and his childhood friends Bob Johnson and John Alvey. The graphic novel is written by Brian Buccellato (Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, DC's “The Flash” and Injustice: Gods Among Us), with art by Christian Ward (Invisible Kingdom, Marvel's Black Bolt) and is expected to hit stores on June 21st.