Paul Rodriguez

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Age: 71, born 19 January 1955

Country of origin: Mexico

Height: 6' 0"

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Description: Funny and cool, 6-foot-tall Native-Latino American businessman, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Paul Rodriguez is from Sinaloa, Mexico but raised in East Los Angeles, California. After finishing his military service, he went to college on the GI bill with the idea of becoming an attorney, but developed an interest in comedy while taking elective courses. Paul honed his stand-up act at L.A.'s famous The Comedy Store while working as a doorman there, and got his break as an opening act for others at various concerts and universities and as a warm-up comic on [link=nm0005131]'s short-lived sitcom Funny and cool, 6-foot-tall Native-Latino American businessman, entrepreneur, stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. Paul Rodriguez is from Sinaloa, Mexico but raised in East Los Angeles, California. After finishing his military service, he went to college on the GI bill with the idea of becoming an attorney, but developed an interest in comedy while taking elective
courses.

Paul honed his stand-up act at L.A.'s famous The Comedy Store while working as a doorman there, and got his break as an opening act for others at various concerts and universities and as a warm-up comic
on [link=nm0005131]'s short-lived sitcom [link=tt0083424] starring [link=nm0001783].

Lear was so impressed that he wrote and developed a sitcom specifically for Paul entitled [link=tt0086832], which caught the public's eye only briefly. Other comedy series followed, however, including [link=tt0094570] and [link=tt0098808],
and a few movies also came his way with [link=tt0085387] and [link=tt0092690]. Sticking to his Indigenous-Hispanic American roots as the basis for his comedy, he has made an appealing crossover hit.

The Brown man broke through the talk show venue with "El Show DE Paul Rodriguez", which had a four-year run, and branched out
into directing with the film [link=tt0110518], which he also co-wrote and
starred in. More recently, he appeared with [link=nm0001357] in [link=tt0231402] and had
an atypical role in director [link=nm0000142]'s [link=tt0309377] as an arrogant, smarmy
police detective. More recently, he has been visible (good or bad) in
[link=tt0356470], [link=tt0412080] and [link=tt0403946].

He also executive-produced and starred in the comedy concert film [link=tt0332720]. He has been seen everywhere on cable comedy showcases, including [link=tt0320253], [link=tt0434875], [link=tt0480259], [link=tt0466881], [link=tt1562404] and [link=tt7635592]., all of which solidified his reputation as one of the country's best known Native-Latin American people in the U.S.

Other millennium film credits include a wide variety of roles, including those in [link=tt0255653], [link=tt0248667], [link=tt0295725], [link=tt0367790], [link=tt0313245], [link=tt0464096], [link=tt1524542], [link=tt3181624], [link=tt5213870], [link=tt13009044]. He also provided voices for the animated features [link=tt1014775], [link=tt1328912] and [link=tt1287468]. On TV, he was a regular on the Spanish-speaking comedy [link=tt5616056] and played the title role in the English-speaking sitcom [link=tt2364238].

Paul has been recognized for his tireless charity work, which includes strong, avid support for the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Farm Aid, Leukemia Telethon, Project Literacy, and Housing Now, among many others. ... (more)