Armie Hammer

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Full Name: Armand Douglas Hammer
Date of birth: August 28, 1986 (40 years old)
Location: Los Ángeles
Country: USA

Armie Hammer has been active for 20 years, participating in 21 movies that average a 6.3/10 score.

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Biography

His first big part was a Batman who never existed. In 2007 George Miller cast him in the cowl for a Justice League film that Warner Bros shut down with the costume tests already shot. Armie Hammer was 21, and he went back to small television parts.

That pattern of big door, closed door has repeated all the way through his career, though the last time the reasons were very different.

He was born on 28 August 1986 in Santa Monica, California, the great-grandson of Armand Hammer, the man who built Occidental Petroleum and one of the more argued-over figures in twentieth century American oil. His father was a businessman and his mother had worked at a bank. He grew up between Highland Park, a wealthy pocket of Dallas, and the Cayman Islands, where the family moved when he was seven and stayed five years. He dropped out of school in eleventh grade to act.

Two twins, then ten years of studio work

He started out as the good looking one in 'Gossip Girl', 'Veronica Mars' and 'Desperate Housewives', plus a horse film, 'Flicka' (2006). In 2008 he led 'Billy: The Early Years' as a young Billy Graham, which almost nobody saw.

What changed things was 'The Social Network' (2010), where he plays both Winklevoss twins, the Harvard rowers who sue Mark Zuckerberg, for David Fincher. The visual trick got the attention, but the thing that worked was the character: two rich boys certain the world owes them something.

The studios took him on after that. He played Clyde Tolson, the deputy and hidden partner of the head of the FBI, in 'J. Edgar' (2011), directed by Clint Eastwood with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead, and a prince in 'Mirror Mirror' (2012) with Julia Roberts.

The big swing was 'The Lone Ranger' (2013), Gore Verbinski's film with Johnny Depp as Tonto and Hammer in the title role. It cost over $200 million and became one of Disney's heaviest losses of the decade. Two years later he was a Soviet spy in 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' for Guy Ritchie, opposite Henry Cavill. That one didn't sell tickets either, and has since turned into a cult favourite.

In between he took better, smaller work: 'Nocturnal Animals' (2016) for Tom Ford, the warehouse shootout 'Free Fire', Nate Parker's 'The Birth of a Nation', the thriller 'Mine', which he also produced, and the voice of the rival car in 'Cars 3' (2017).

Oliver, the best part he's had

In 2017 he played Oliver in 'Call Me By Your Name', the American graduate student who spends a summer at a house in northern Italy and falls for the family's teenage son. Luca Guadagnino directed, and Timothée Chalamet came out of it a star.

Hammer got Golden Globe, Independent Spirit and Critics' Choice nominations and the best notices of his life. The same year he was the writer James Lord in Stanley Tucci's 'Final Portrait'.

He barely stopped for the next three years. He was the white boss in Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' (2018), Ruth Bader Ginsburg's husband in 'On the Basis of Sex' with Felicity Jones, and a guest at the Taj Mahal Palace in 'Hotel Mumbai' with Dev Patel. He made his Broadway debut in 2018 in the play 'Straight White Men'.

In 2020 Netflix put out 'Rebecca', with him as Maxim de Winter opposite Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas, and he had already shot what would be his last studio film for a long while, for Kenneth Branagh.

By the end of 2020 he was 34 and in demand. He had 'Death on the Nile' in the can, the male lead in 'Shotgun Wedding' opposite Jennifer Lopez, and a Paramount+ series about the making of 'The Godfather' with him cast as its producer. He lost all of it inside a month.

January 2021

Early in 2021, screenshots of private messages attributed to him began circulating on social media, with violent sexual content and references to cannibalism. He called the claims false, but the effect was immediate. He left 'Shotgun Wedding', which Josh Duhamel ended up making, and the series 'The Offer', where Miles Teller replaced him. His agency and his publicist dropped him within days.

That February a woman, Effie Angelova, reported to the Los Angeles police that he had raped her in 2017 and that their on and off four year relationship had been abusive. She said so publicly at a press conference in March. Other women described controlling relationships. He denied any non-consensual act.

In May 2021 he checked into a treatment centre in Florida for drug, alcohol and sexual behaviour issues, and stayed about six months. In 2022 he was photographed working at a resort in the Cayman Islands, and that September Discovery+ released 'House of Hammer', a documentary about him and his family's history, with his aunt Casey taking part.

The last film he had shot before any of it, 'Death on the Nile', opened in February 2022 with him in a leading role and entirely absent from the publicity.

On 31 May 2023 the Los Angeles County District Attorney closed the investigation without charges, citing insufficient evidence to prove rape beyond reasonable doubt and the complexity of the relationship between the two. He said his name had been cleared; the accuser's side rejected that reading, and a decision not to charge is not an acquittal.

Four months earlier he had spoken for the first time, to the magazine 'Air Mail'. He admitted there that he had been emotionally abusive towards women much younger than him and had taken advantage of the imbalance, maintained that every encounter was consensual and agreed in advance, and said a youth pastor had abused him when he was 13 and that he had considered suicide after the allegations surfaced.

Starting again, further down

He married the television presenter Elizabeth Chambers in May 2010 and they have two children, Harper and Ford. They separated in July 2020 and the divorce was settled in June 2023.

In 2024 he moved back to Los Angeles and started a podcast, 'Armie HammerTime', talking about his own case and interviewing people he knew, with no illusions about how that would land. He got back on screen in December 2025 in 'Frontier Crucible', a low budget western directed by Travis Mills in which he plays a sadistic outlaw, alongside Thomas Jane and William H. Macy.

His first lead since 2021 was 'Citizen Vigilante', the Uwe Boll thriller released in North America in June 2026, and it went badly. The film had already drawn complaints in Germany over its politics. In July, American outlets reported, citing people around him, that he cried when he saw the finished film and described it as hateful and not the picture he had agreed to. Boll denied the account and said the shoot had gone perfectly.

Two more films are waiting, 'Night Driver' and 'Mascotland', and in an interview with 'The Hollywood Reporter' this summer he asked for a second chance with a line that sums up where he is: he made these problems for himself. At 40, his career looks a lot more like 2008 than 2018.