- His parents did not support his decision to pursue a career in acting, preferring him to enter business. According to Hammer, his relationship with them became strained but he reconciled with them after he started getting starring roles.
- He is the great-grandson of industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Armand Hammer.
- In 2007, he was set to play Bruce Wayne/Batman in a ''Justice League'' film, under the direction of George Miller, but the project was canceled. He was considered by Warner Bros. for the part of Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), which went to Ben Affleck and when Affleck left, he was considered for the role again in The Batman (2022) which went to Robert Pattinson.
- Lived in the Cayman Islands from ages 7 to 13 after his father saw the movie, The Firm (1993), which is partially set there.
- His family is not the namesake of the home goods brand Arm & Hammer. Though patriarch Armand Hammer's name is thought to be a pun, he was named after an Alexandre Dumas character, Armand Duval, in the book La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848.
- Despite his family's wealth, he has said that he has never had a trust fund and that he supported himself through his acting career.
- He plays the guitar.
- He dropped out of high school at sixteen to pursue acting.
- Family opened the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The museum holds an artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs.
- Armie (full name Armand) and his brother Viktor share the same names as their great-grandfather, Armand, and his own brother, also named Viktor.
- He is the son of Michael Armand Hammer and Dru Hammer. His mother is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. His father graduated from the University of San Diego and received an M.B.A. degree from New York University.
- Armie's paternal great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, was the son of Russian Jewish emigrants, Rose (Lifschitz) and Julius Hammer, from Odessa, then in the Russian Empire. Armie's other ancestry is German, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Russian, Polish, Swiss-German, Danish, distant Greek, and 1/512 Cherokee Native American (through his paternal grandmother, Armie descends from Chief Kanagatucko, a Cherokee elder who lived in the 18th century).
- With wife Elizabeth Chambers, jointly announced their marital separation and divorce filing on July 6, 2020, after ten years of marriage and two children together.
- Good friends with Call Me by Your Name (2017) co-star Timothée Chalamet.
- Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 8, 2018 in Austin, Texas.
- Asked by the Hollywood Reporter's Matt Belloni which one of his movies he'd most like to have deleted from his IMDb filmography, Armie was quick to nominate Spring Breakdown (2009).
- He and his wife Elizabeth Chambers had their second child, Ford Douglas Armand, on January 15, 2017.
- On his father's side, he is the grandson of Julian Armand Hammer and Glenna Sue (Ervin). On his mother's side, he is the grandson of longtime Tulsa real estate developer Douglas Lee "Doug" Mobley and Donna Rae (Kaufman).
- As of 2018, he has been in 2 films that were Oscar nominated for Best Picture: The Social Network (2010) and Call Me by Your Name (2017).
- Became engaged to Elizabeth Chambers on August 18, 2009.
- At the time of his famous great-grandfather Armand's death at the age of 92, Armie and his brother Viktor were his only great-grandchildren.
- Daughter Harper Grace Hammer was born December 1, 2014, delivered by Dr. Jay Goldberg.
- He turned down the role of the titular character for The Invisible Man (2020) that ended up going to Oliver Jackson-Cohen.
- Is politically Liberal.
- Would like to open a cigar shop.
- His father Michael Armand Hammer was the last owner of the Knoedler Art Gallery bought by his great-grandfather Armand Hammer (1898-1990).
- Brother-in-law to Catherine Chambers, John Chambers, and Joseph Chambers.
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