moviesActor plays plain folk

... a fictional account of a folk singer, loosely inspired by the late, great Dave Van Ronk, navigating the Greenwich Village music scene in the early 1960s. Isaac was already a musician when he got his start as an actor. Born in Guatemala and raised in ...

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