ANDY
MAGRO
Andy Magro is an extremely talented, award-winning international actor, voice-over actor, singer-songwriter, model, and public speaker. He is a multilingual talent from Germany with Italian and German citizenship. Magro is impressively fluent in Italian, English, German, and Spanish. He is also currently learning Chinese-Mandarin, French, and Swedish. He often travels back and forth between Germany, Italy, Australia, New York, and Los Angeles. Additionally, Andy is an Instagram influencer and global philanthropist that has used his popularity to make a positive impact in the world. When Magro first started philanthropy, he had no idea where to start, but he had a mission in mind that he just wanted to help people. He explains that it’s very difficult to do philanthropy, because not everyone wants to donate. This is because people are suspicious if their money actually goes towards a good cause and the actual charity organization. He explains, “the entertainment industry has given me so much so far, and I just need to find a way to give back”. This is exactly why he started his own foundation, the Andy Magro Foundation, which is a reliable source for donators. Magro is an official supporter of the World Wildlife Fund and many other charity organizations. He also has his own charity organization, the Andy Magro Foundation. Magro’s Foundation was founded in 2018 and the charity was originally based on his music career. Magro decided that he would donate half the sales from his music sales earnings to those in need. His main mission is to find orphans a home with a loving family. Apart from this mission, he also hopes to “mitigate the impacts of climate change, reduce poverty, hunger, homelessness, protect the forest, ocean, and marine life”. The Andy Magro Foundation also donates funds towards environmental protection, natural disasters,
animal protection, global poverty, marine protection, and climate change. The organization also focuses on being humanitarian and helping education through its innovative programs. Magro’s biggest inspiration in acting and philanthropy is Leonardo DiCaprio. Magro is heavily involved in DiCaprio’s global charity campaign, “Save Tigers Now”. Part of the reason Magro aspires to Leonardo DiCaprio is because DiCaprio does a lot of philanthropy. DiCaprio has donated millions of dollars to charity organizations. Magro hopes to do the same one day. Magro tells Hollywood Weekly, “I want to try to do at least half of the things he did so far”. Magro thought deeply about starting his own charity organization when he started making music. “The special thing about my foundation is that I’m not a classic foundation that only focuses on one goal,” he explains to Hollywood Weekly, “I’m a giver, I give to multiple foundations”. He also gives volunteers to projects that need extra hands. He strives to work with every type of charity and each donation from donators is given to multiple charities. Magro’s main partners and sponsors include WWF, Save the Children, Leonardo DiCaprio, Make-A-Wish, and several other charities. Magro especially connects to the WWF, because it was the first project he collaborated with and it was a huge reason he started his foundation in the first place. He started by wanted to help save the tigers, but then grew a desire to expand his impact. Magro loves animals as he also has an own dog and was partly inspired by the movie, “We Bought a Zoo”. One of his biggest dreams is to buy or save a zoo with endangered animals. In general, Magro likes to get his inspiration from movies. He explains, “movies are not fake, there is always some type of truth to them”. In his opinion, even science fiction movies have truth to them, because the writer had to come up with the idea. HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOODWEEKLY WEEKLY•• 27
