Armand Douglas "Armie" Hammer (born August 28, 1986 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor.
He is best known for playing The Winklevoss Twins in 2010's The Social Network (the film about the creation of Facebook), John Reid in The Lone Ranger and Illya Kuryakin in the 2015 film adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
Selected filmography:
- Veronica Mars (2006) as Kurt
- Desperate Housewives (2007) as Barrett
- Reaper (2009) as Morgan
- Gossip Girl (2009) as Gabriel Edwards
- The Social Network (2010) as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
- J. Edgar (2011) as Clyde Tolson
- Mirror, Mirror (2012) as Prince Andrew Alcott
- The Lone Ranger (2013) as John Reid / The Lone Ranger
- Disney Infinity (2013) as John Reid / The Lone Ranger (voice)
- Entourage (2015) as himself
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) as Illya Kuryakin
- The Birth of a Nation (2016) as Samuel Turner
- Nocturnal Animals (2016) as Hutton Foster
- Free Fire (2016) as Ord
- Cars 3 (2017) as Jackson Storm (voice)
- Call Me by Your Name (2017) as Oliver
- Sorry to Bother You (2018) as Steve Lift
- On the Basis of Sex (2018) as Martin Ginsburg
- Rebecca (2020) as Maxim de Winter
- Death on the Nile (2022) as Simon Doyle
His work provides examples of:
- Baritone of Strength: His voice is very deep and he's played a few Action Heroes in his time.
- Genius Bruiser: His characters may be big and muscular but that doesn't mean they're stupid.
- Mr. Fanservice: He is very attractive and in some of his roles this quality is often exalted.
- One Head Taller: Hammer is extremely tall and usually towers over his male co-stars, to say nothing of the female cast.
- The Other Marty: Completed filming a role in Next Goal Wins, but after his public reputation was ruined by controversies, the role was then reshot with Will Arnett. Reportedly the part was originally a cameo but then expanded upon once Arnett took over.
- Role-Ending Misdemeanor: A series of scandals, including numerous abuse allegations and even accusations of cannibalistic fantasies went viral in early 2021, leading him to be dropped by his talent agency and publicist and abandon numerous film roles, putting his career in jeopardy (his remaining projects were shot in 2019, with Death on the Nile waylaid by the COVID-19 Pandemic). He was investigated in 2023 by the LAPD on the allegations made against him, but the department announced that further investigations were stopped due to lack of evidence. Despite this, his career is pretty much over and he was last seen by photographers selling timeshares in the Bahamas.
- Star-Derailing Role: Just about averted. The successive flops of The Lone Ranger and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. killed off his predicted career as an action movie leading man, but he made a successful transition to character roles in smaller-scale but still successful films. Unfortunately it didn't last (see Role Ending Misdemeanor above)....
- What Could Have Been:
- He was cast as Batman in George Miller's Justice League film, Justice League: Mortal, before the project was scrapped.
- He was set to star in the movie Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez, but leaked texts and accusations of abuse and cannibalism caused him to drop out, being replaced by Josh Duhamel. He would also be dropped from the Paramount+ series The Offer (replaced by Miles Teller), the Broadway production of Tracy Letts's The Minutes (replaced by Noah Reid), the Starz series Gaslit (replaced by Dan Stevens), and Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins (replaced by Will Arnett).
