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Rick Gonzalez Profile |
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Birth Date: June 30, 1979
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Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Rick Gonzalez
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Rick Gonzalez (born June 30, 1979) is an American actor. He
is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Coach
Carter and Biker Boyz.
Gonzalez was born in New York City of Puerto Rican and
Dominican descent. His parents met in New York City where
they married. They settled down in the Bushwick section of
Brooklyn where they raised Rick. There, he attended
elementary and Jr. high school. Ever since he was a young
child, Rick would put on improvised "shows" for his family
and participate in all of his school's plays. His teachers
were instrumental in convincing Rick to apply and try out
for the High School of the Performing Arts, on which the
movie Fame was based, in Manhattan. He did as suggested and
was accepted. In 1997, he graduated and began to pursue a
career in acting.
Gonzalez started his acting career in New York where he
landed a small role in the made for television movie Thicker
Than Blood (1998) as Sanchez. In 1999, he made his feature
movie debut as Ricky in the movie Mambo Cafe, which was
released in the year 2000. He followed that by participating
in the film Prince of Central Park (2000) before heading for
Los Angeles, California.
In Hollywood, he landed a small part as a gangbanger in the
2001 film Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles. His reputation as
an actor started to grow with the roles of Rudy Bonilla in
The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid and as the sex-crazed
Primo in the 2003 movie Biker Boyz. In 2005, he played the
role of Timo Cruz in the movie Coach Carter. Rick also
appeared in Twista's video Hope, which is the lead single
off the Coach Carter movie soundtrack. He played the male
lead in Mashonda's Back of Tha Club video; and has also
starred in the video to Obie Trice's song Snitch, where he
plays a member of a group who successfully pull off a bank
robbery, and then snitches on them.
Among the other movies in which Rick has participated in are
the 2003 comedy Old School (alongside Luke Wilson, Vince
Vaughn and Will Ferrell) as "Spanish", Laurel Canyon (2003)
as Wyett, Subway Cafe (2004) as Vincent Young, War of the
Worlds as Vincent, and Roll Bounce as Naps.
His T.V. guest appearances have been in Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit (2000), Touched by an Angel" (2001), ER (2001),
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002) The Shield (2002) and CSI
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Friend of Jorge A. Reyes |
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