Horatio Sanz
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| Horatio Sanz | |
| Born | June 4, 1969 Santiago, Chile |
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Horatio Sanz (born June 4, 1969) is an Chilean comedian and actor, best known as a former cast member of Saturday Night Live.
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[edit] Biography
Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in Santiago, Chile to Sylvia and Carlos Sanz.[1] He grew up in the North-Pulaski neighborhood on Chicago's West side. Star struck at an early age, he honed his skills in his hometown Chicago, Illinois, where he performed at various theaters, including The Court Theater and The Second City. Sanz is noted as the first Latino cast member on Saturday Night Live. At the beginning of Saturday Night Live's 31st season, he was the temporary replacement for Tina Fey as Amy Poehler's Weekend Update co-anchor while Fey was on maternity leave until she resumed her duties on October 22, 2005. On September 20, 2006, Saturday Night Live announced that the show was dropping Finesse Mitchell, Chris Parnell, and Horatio Sanz from the show.
Sanz was the third cast member in SNL history to be born outside of North America after Pamela Stephenson and Morwenna Banks. Sanz returned to SNL as a guest on February 3, 2007, appearing as Elton John, and again on November 3, as presidential candidate Bill Richardson.
On November 24, 2008, TV Guide reported that Sanz will be joining the cast of the new ABC sitcom In The Motherhood. He will be playing Cheryl Hines' character’s manny.[2]
In November 2008, Horatio surprised fans with his first public appearance in almost a year, after having lost 100 pounds. "I’ve been eating better,” he admitted. Sanz quipped, “I’ve been trying to come up with a joke about how I’ve lost weight and I was going to say, ‘I stopped putting nuts in my sundaes." He also says, "I never weighed myself when I was at my fattest, because I was scared I might die'." Sanz says he's been working out, too. In June 2009, he appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and claimed that much of his weight loss was due to the fact that he had stopped drinking alcohol.[3]
[edit] Saturday Night Live
[edit] Memorable characters
- Gobi, co-host of Jarret's Room
- Jasper Hahn, a political cartoonist whose creations always start out as raunchy drawings of genitals.
- Rick, Kaitlin's stepfather
- Carol, a cheerful, yet crass woman
- Manuel Pantalones, from "Showbiz Grande Explosion"
- Frankie Hilbert, from The Boston Teens
- Vasquez-Gomez-Vasquez, from The Adult Students
- The drunken man who humped a halibut and fathered a mermaid in the sketch Interspecies Beach[4]
- Nicholas "Nick" Ragoni, from the movies Boat Trip
[edit] Memorable celebrity impersonations
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Elton John
- Gene Shalit
- Aaron Neville
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Bill Richardson
- Billy Joel
- Freddy Fender
- Ron Jeremy
- Saddam Hussein (in "split screen" telephone conversations with Osama Bin Laden, played by Jimmy Fallon)
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Weekend Update sketch after capture comparing his mugshot to the Dunkin' Donuts guy.
- Matt LeBlanc
- Jonathan Lipnicki (as his character Ray Boyd from Jerry Maguire)
- Kim Jong-il
- Bruce Vilanch
- Louie Anderson
[edit] Selected filmography
- Saturday Night Live (1998–2006)
- Road Trip (2000)
- Fillmore! (TV, 2001–2004, voice of Vallejo)
- Tomcats (2001)
- The New Guy (2002)
- Boat Trip (2003)
- Rebound (2005)
- The Man (Uncredited, 2005)
- School for Scoundrels (2006)
- Lucky You (2007)
- May the Best Man Win (2008)
- Step Brothers (2008)
- Hollywood & Wine (2009)
- Year One (2009)
[edit] References
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Horatio Sanz at the Internet Movie Database
- The official Upright Citizens Brigade Theater website
- Review of Christmas sketch show at UCB
- Interview with Horatio Sanz
| Preceded by Tina Fey |
Weekend Update 2005 |
Succeeded by Tina Fey |
| Notes and references | ||
| 1. Sanz was a temporary replacement for Fey while she was on maternity leave from October 1–October 8, 2005. | ||
