Luis Guzman has an estimated net worth of $13 million as of 2022. An actor of Puerto Rican origin specializes in playing rough people with a heart.
In 2020, the median wage for actors was $43,760. The highest-paid quarter earned $60,760 that year, while the lowest-paid quarter earned $28,080(Money.usnews).
Since beginning his professional acting career in the early 1980s, he has performed in a dizzying array of film and television projects. His most well-known films are “Magnolia,” “Boogie Nights,” and “Punch-Drunk Love.” His career has lasted almost four decades.
Begun by participating in street theatre and indie filmmaking, his television career started with a recurring part on the HBO prison drama Oz, as well as roles on Law & Order, NYPD Blue, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
Guzman’s major break came in 1997 when he played Maurice Rodriguez in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Boogie Nights.”
He was nominated for an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 for his role in another Paul Thomas Anderson film, “Punch Drunk Love.”
Guzman has also starred in television programs such as “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Frasier,” and “Oz.” In the video games “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City” and its precursor “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories,” he played Richardo Diaz.
He has also appeared as a pundit on VH1’s “I Love the ’80s,” “I Love Toys,” and its sequels “I Love the ’70s” and “I Love the ’90s.” He co-starred in the shelved HBO series “John from Cincinnati” in 2007.
Guzman appeared in six episodes of “Narcos” in 2016. He is a notable character actor who is equally at home in comedies and tragedies. He will next be seen in the film “Bread and Games.”
