Anthony Ramos
Birthdate: Nov 1, 1991
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA
Few members of the original cast of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton have enjoyed the kind of rapid career rise as has Anthony Ramos (birthname: Anthony Ramos Martinez). Ramos originated the roles of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son), earning raves and staying with the production for 15 months.
This quickly led to a co-starring role in Spike Lee’s 2017 Netflix-produced series version of his debut feature, She’s Gotta Have It (1986), and a wave of roles in prestigious indie films, such as Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men with John David Washington and Edward Burns’s Summer Days, Summer Nights (2018).
Anthony Ramos has alternated indie projects with high-profile commercial vehicles, including Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), the Liam Neeson thriller Honest Thief (2020); Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born (2018), and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023). In addition, Ramos had played the role of Sonny de la Vega in a 2012 touring production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first musical, In the Heights; he returned to the musical in the commercially failed but well-reviewed 2021 film version, now in the lead role of Usnavi under Miranda’s direction.
Anthony Ramos has amassed a significant roster of voice credits as well, including DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys (2022), Trolls 2: World Tour (2020), and Disney’s Elena of Avalor (2019). In addition, his considerable singing chops can be heard in songs in several films and TV soundtracks since 2019, including She’s Gotta Have It, Trolls 2, Nisha Ganatra’s The High Note (2020), Disney’s streaming edition of Hamilton (2020), In the Heights and Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).
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Personal Details
Raised in Brooklyn’s Bushwick section, Anthony Ramos is Puerto Rican-American. He has a mother, a younger sister, and an older brother. A New Utrecht High School graduate, Ramos shifted his dreams of a baseball career to the musical theater.
He earned a complete American Musical and Dramatic Academy scholarship and graduated in 2011. Anthony Ramos had already done national tours within three years, a brief stint at Radio City Music Hall with The Rockettes. He was cast in the Public Theatre’s off-Broadway production of Hamilton. His height is 5’ 9”.
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Awards
Nominee, Supporting Actor Emmy in a Limited Series or Movie (2021); Nominee, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes (2022); Nominee, Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild (2019); Winner, Best Musical Theater Album, Grammy Awards (2016).
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Screen Actors Guild Awards
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Filmography
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- 2025 | The Bad Guys 2asMr. Piranha
The Bad Guys 2
The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do 'one last job' by an all-female squad of criminals.
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- 2023 | Dumb MoneyasMarcos Garcia
Dumb Money
David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video game store) into the world's hottest company.
- 2023 | Transformers: Rise of the BeastsasNoah Diaz
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
- 2022 | The Bad GuysasPiranha
The Bad Guys
To avoid prison, a gang of notorious animal criminals pretends to seek being rehabilitated, only for their leader to realize that he genuinely wants to change his ways.
- 2021 | In the HeightsasUsnavi
In the Heights
In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.
- 2020 | Hamiltonas John Laurens
- 2020 | Hamiltonas Philip Hamilton
- 2020 | Honest ThiefasSpecial Agent Ramon Hall
Honest Thief
Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
- 2018 | Summer Days, Summer Nightsas Frankie Espinoza
- 2018 | A Star Is BornasRamon
A Star Is Born
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
- 2018 | Monsters and MenasManny
Monsters and Men
The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
- 2016 | White Girlas Kilo
- 2002 |
Some Facts About Anthony Ramos
Play Ball: Anthony Ramos’s first career choice was baseball, not acting and singing. He had aimed to play on an NCAA Division III college team and then coach in pro ball.
