Horatio Sanz (born June 4, 1969) is a Chilean-American
comedian and
actor, best known as a former cast member of
Saturday Night Live.
Biography
Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in
Santiago,
Chile to Sylvia and Carlos Sanz.
[Horatio Sanz Biography - Yahoo! Movies] 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. While in
Chicago, Sanz was also one of the founding members of the
Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) sketch comedy and improv troupe. Sanz can still be seen regularly performing with the sketch troupe at their long-running hit improv show "ASSSSCAT 3000", at both of the UCB's popular comedy theaters located in New York City and Los Angeles.
Sanz most recently acted in the
ABC sitcom
In The Motherhood. He played the role of Horatio the "manny" (male nanny) in early 2009.
[Horatio Sanz Embraces Motherhood" TV Guide. November 24, 2008. Retrieved on November 26 2008.] Sanz is currently writing on comedian
Nick Swardson's upcoming sketch-comedy show,
Pretend Time with Nick Swardson, which is expected to air in early 2010 on
Comedy Central.
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.
[www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/]
Saturday Night Live
Sanz joined the cast of
Saturday Night Live in September 1998, he is noted as
SNLs first Latino cast member. 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 fourth cast member in
SNL history to be born outside of
North America after
Tony Rosato,
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.
Memorable SNL 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
- Jeffrey's Clothing Store customer
- Carol, a cheerful, yet crass woman
- Manuel Pantalones, from "Showbiz Grande Explosion"
- Frankie Hilbert, from The Boston Teens
- Vasquez-Gomez-Vasquez
- The drunken man who humped a halibut and fathered a mermaid in the sketch Interspecies Beach
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Memorable SNL Impressions
Filmography
