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Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, USA
Birthday: 12-1-1967
Birth Name: Nestor Carbonell
Nestor CarbonellMore Photos Nestor was born in NYC but his family travelled frequently and actually Spanish was his first language. Carbonell enrolled at Harvard as an English major and first performed as a freshman. After graduating, he embarked on a career in acting and landed small parts on daytime TV and made his primetime debut on an episode of "Law & Order". Nestor was frequently cast as Hispanics or Europeans and...

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Nestor Joins "Dark Knight"

Nestor has agreed to play Mayor of Gotham City in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begin's sequel. Nestor played Batmanuel in "The Tick" which was a parody of Batman. His character as similar to Die Fledermaus of the animated series.At the moment Carbonell has a recurring role on ABC's "Lost" and CBS drama "Cane".The Dark Knight will be hitting theatres on July 8 2008. Read more »
Posted by SYS, 05/29/2007 2:25am  0 Comments
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While playing the Mayor of Gotham City in "The Dark Knight", Nestor wore eye liner to give a more, "Frank Miller" comic book effect to the character. (edit)
In 1996, Nestor was nominated for a NCLR Bravo Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Comedy Series for "Suddenly Susan". (edit)
Nestor won the President Award Star on the Horizon at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival in 2003. (edit)
Although born in America, Nestor's first language was Spanish. (edit)
Nestor was raised in 13 different countries. (edit)

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Nestor: I would not have been able to work on The Tick had it not been for Suddenly Susan. (edit)
Nestor: (On The Movie "The Lost City") It doesn’t only speak to the Cuban- American community, but ultimately is a story of an impossible love with the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and the aftermath. (edit)
Nestor:(On the Movie "Smokin Aces") I think that the reason the movie works so well is because the violence is so well balanced with the comedy. On my first day I got to take a blow torch to a man's genitals, which was only funny when I saw it onscreen. But I mean, how often do you get to play something as dark as that and still make it funny? So, for me, it was just a dream to get this job and to be able to work with this phenomenal cast. (edit)
Nestor: (Explaining the Appeal of Smokin’ Aces) Well, for me, like Ryan [Reynolds] said, Joe [Carnahan] is such an enormous talent. If you watch Narc, it's amazing to see how incredibly talented he is in that particular genre, which was just a drama. And then to come around and do a follow up, second picture that is such a tonally different kind of movie – this being a dark action comedy – and every character, as Jeremy [Piven] said, has a moment, has a sort of epiphany. Even though it's incredibly violent, there's a real moment of clarity for characters. As dark and as depraved as some of the characters are, which mine certainly is, we all have a sort of moment of lightness. (edit)
Nestor: (On his experience on the movie "Smokin Aces") I think that the reason the movie works so well is because the violence is so well balanced with the comedy. On my first day I got to take a blow torch to a man's genitals, which was only funny when I saw it onscreen. But I mean, how often do you get to play something as dark as that and still make it funny? So, for me, it was just a dream to get this job and to be able to work with this phenomenal cast. (edit)
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Handsome, but also great actor.
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