Armie Hammer parents-American actor, Armand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28th, 1986 in Santa Monica, California in the United States of America.
His father, Michael Armand Hammer, founded multiple companies, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film and television production company. His mother, Dru Ann (née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer.
He has a younger brother named Viktor after his Victor Hammer-named great-granduncle. His background has been described as “half Jewish.”
Oil magnate and philanthropist Armand Hammer, whose parents were Jewish immigrants to the United States from the Russian Empire, was his paternal great-grandfather. Julius Hammer, Armand’s father, was an early New York Communist Party activist who hailed from Odesa.
The Russian-born singer and actress Baroness Olga Vadimovna von Root (from Sevastopol), who was the granddaughter of a tsarist general, was Armie’s paternal great-grandmother.
While his mother’s family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, his paternal grandmother was from Texas. Hammer spent a number of years residing in the Dallas-area town of Highland Park, Texas.
His family relocated to the Cayman Islands when he was seven years old, where they stayed for five years before settling in Los Angeles.
He went at Faulkner’s Academy in Governor’s Harbour and Grace Christian Academy, which his father founded, in West Bay, Grand Cayman, while living there.
He went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley as a teenager. He left high school in the eleventh grade to pursue a career in acting. He did, however, later enroll in UCLA’s collegiate programs.
Hammer claimed that when he left school to pursue acting, his parents d isowned him, but that they later changed their minds and became proud of his work.
Armie Hammer career
Hammer is an American actor. He began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.
In 2008’s Billy: The Early Years, he played Billy Graham. In 2010, he played Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher’s biographical drama The Social Network, for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor. This role brought him his first leading role.
Hammer played Clyde Tolson in the 2011 biopic J. Edgar, The Lone Ranger’s title role in the 2013 western, and Illya Kuryakin in the 2015 action movie The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
He garnered nominations for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male in 2017 for his performance in Luca Guadagnino’s romance film Call Me by Your Name.
In the movie On the Basis of Sex (2018), he played Martin D. Ginsburg the next year. In 2018, he played the lead in a production of Straight White Men on Broadway.
In 2021, allegations surfaced that Hammer had committed numerous acts of grave abuse, some of which were sexual.
Hammer called the accusations a “online attack” and refuted them. Later, he gave up on a number of new endeavors, and his publicist and talent agency parted ways with him.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office stated that Hammer has an ongoing case with the LAPD and is looking into allegations of sexual assault filed against him in April 2023.
Who are Armie Hammer’s parents?
Hammer was born to Michael Armand Hammer, who owned several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film/television production company and Dru Ann Mobley who is a former bank loan officer.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
