Freddy Rodriguez Biography

Fast Facts

• Received the 2007 ShoWest Award for Best Supporting Actor of the Year
• Won a 2001 ALMA Award for his work on "For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story․"
• Won Outstanding Actor in a Television Series for "Six Feet Under" at the 2004 Nosotros Golden Eagle Awards
• In 2011, he received the Imagen Foundation Award for Best Actor in Television
• Won a 2006 Hollywood Film Award for his performance in "Bobby․"
• Graduate of the Drama program at Lincoln Park High School, Chicago
• Pulaski International School of Chicago
• Married his high school sweetheart, Elsie, in December 1995, having two children
• Married his high school sweetheart Elsie on December 23, 1995
• His experiences in a theater program for inner-city kids that he discovered when he as 13 allowed him to win a scholarship to the Pulaski International School of Chicago in the eighth grade
• Started acting in his high school's various drama productions, including the plays "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Twelve Angry Men" and "The Crucible․"
• After studying drama in his teens, made his onscreen debut in "The Fence" in 1994, leading to other roles in film and TV
• Quote: "I can honestly say I had an epiphany at 13 years old because I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life․"
• Did all of his own stunts in the action film "Planet Terror․"
• Actor and voice artist best recognized from TV's "Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters," "Young Justice," "Chaos," "Ugly Betty" and "Teen Titans․"
• One of his best known roles was in the black comedy "Six Feet Under" as an emotionally sensitive mortician
• Acting at age 13 in a theater program for inner city kids led to earning a scholarship to the Pulaski International School
• Was featured in the video game "Saints Row" as the voice of the character Angelo Lopez
• As a child, he would watch his brothers do tricks with butterfly knives that he could never figure out, so when he got to learn his own knife tricks while training for an action film, it was very exciting for him
• Used to go to double features with his father and brothers in the early 1980s
• Was featured in the music video for Santana's "Into the Night․"