Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (born March 9, 1979) is an American actor. In 2006, he portrayed Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor and corecipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Australian film Balibo, for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His other early film roles include Body of Lies (2007), Robin Hood (2010), and W.E. (2011). Isaac earned critical acclaim for his roles in Drive (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2015).
He gained international stardom for his performance in the Star Wars sequel trilogy as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as the titular mutant supervillain Apocalypse.
He also starred in the science fiction films Annihilation (2018), directed by Alex Garland, and Dune (2021), directed by Denis Villeneuve. Isaac voiced Miguel O'Hara in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which was released in December 2018 and will reprise the role for the sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), in 2022. Isaac will star as Marc Spector / Moon Knight in the upcoming Disney+ series Moon Knight (2022), which is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.He is also known for his television roles such as the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015), and Scenes from a Marriage for which he earned Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film nominations, with Isaac winning the award for the first one.

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Events on 1979
- 1Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. - 11Feb
Ruhollah Khomeini
The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. - 16Mar
People's Liberation Army
Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. - 15Jul
Malaise speech
U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech". - 16Dec
OPEC
Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.