Name	Luiz Guzman
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	28-August-1956
Place of Birth	Cayey, Puerto Rico
Famous for	Acting

Luis Guzman is a Puerto Rican-born American actor, who is known for his character work. For much of Guzman's career, he has played character roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen.

He is a favorite of director Steven Soderbergh, who cast him in Out of Sight, The Limey, and Traffic, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast him in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. He also voiced Ricardo Diaz in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. He recently starred in the HBO original series How to Make It in America.

Guzman was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico and was raised in New York City's Greenwich Village and the surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood. His mother, Rosa, was a hospital worker, and his stepfather, Benjamin Cardona, was a TV repairman. A graduate of City College of New York he began working as a social worker and moonlighted as an actor, eventually becoming heavily involved in street theater and independent films.