
Career 2005–2015: Early work and breakthrough Hammer said his parents disowned him when he decided to leave school and take up acting but have since become supportive and proud of his work. Subsequently, he took college courses at UCLA. He dropped out of high school in eleventh grade to pursue an acting career. He attended Faulkner's Academy in Governor's Harbour, Cayman Islands, and Grace Christian Academy, also in Grand Cayman (a school founded by his father in West Bay, Grand Cayman), and later went to Los Angeles Baptist High School in the San Fernando Valley. When he was seven, his family moved to the Cayman Islands, where they lived for five years, and then settled in Los Angeles. Hammer lived in the Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park for several years. His paternal grandmother was from Texas, while his mother's family is from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Armie's paternal great-grandmother was the Russian-born actress and singer Olga Vadimovna "Vadina" (from Sevastopol), the daughter of a tsarist general. Armand's father, Julius Hammer, was from Odessa and founded the U.S.

Hammer has described his background as "half Jewish." His most recent Jewish relative was his paternal great-grandfather, who emigrated to the United States from the former Russian Empire and was of Ukrainian Jewish descent, and whose son was the oil tycoon and philanthropist Armand Hammer. His mother, Dru Ann ( née Mobley), is a former bank loan officer, and his father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, including Knoedler Publishing and Armand Hammer Productions, a film/television production company. 2.1 2005–2015: Early work and breakthroughĪrmand Douglas Hammer was born on August 28, 1986, in Santa Monica, California.He later abandoned several future projects and was dropped by his acting agency and publicist. Hammer denied the allegations, calling them an "online attack". In March 2021, the Los Angeles Police Department stated that he was the subject of a sexual assault investigation. In 2021, claims of sexual abuse and cannibalistic fetishism were made against Hammer, including allegations of nonconsensual BDSM, rape, and physical and emotional abuse. On Broadway, he starred in a production of Straight White Men in 2018. Ginsburg in the biopic On the Basis of Sex (2018). The following year, he portrayed Martin D. In 2017, he starred in Luca Guadagnino's romantic drama Call Me by Your Name, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Edgar (2011), played the title character in the western The Lone Ranger (2013), and starred as Illya Kuryakin in the action film The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Hammer portrayed Clyde Tolson in the biopic J. Hammer's first leading role was as Billy Graham in the 2008 film Billy: The Early Years, and he gained wider recognition for his portrayal of the twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in David Fincher's biographical drama film The Social Network (2010), for which he won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor. A son of the businessman Michael Armand Hammer and a great-grandson of the oil tycoon Armand Hammer, he began his acting career with guest appearances in several television series.

Armand Douglas Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor.
