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Andy Garcia lived the American dream, but kept a piece of his heart in Cuba. After settling in Florida as a child, Garcia's passion for acting grew, drawing him to Hollywood in the late 1970s, where his smoldering looks and commanding characters in Brian De Palma's brutal "The Untouchables" (1987) and Francis Ford Coppola's epic "The Godfather, Part III" (1990) eventually helped establish him as a bankable star of his generation. Instead of following the prescribed path, Garcia came to gravitate towards intimate projects, many of which, over the years, personified his admirable range, without sacrificing the artistry of his homeland.

Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez was born on April 12, 1956, in Havana, Cuba - the third child after an older brother and sister. Garcia's father had a prosperous career as a lawyer and farmer; his mother as a teacher, but at age five, the family fled Cuba for Miami, FL after the Bay of Pigs, settling into a one-bedroom apartment. His father cleaned and maintained the inventory at a catering company, while his mother - who, of all of them, had the strongest mastery of English at the time - found work as an English teacher. Garcia, himself, collected bottles on Miami's beaches for extra income, but eventually the family would go into the

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