Michael Anthony Peña ( ; Spanish : [ ˈpeɲa ] ; born January 13, 1976 ) [ 1 ] is an american actor. He has starred in many films, including Crash ( 2004 ), World Trade Center ( 2006 ), Shooter ( 2007 ), Observe and Report ( 2009 ), Tower Heist ( 2011 ), Battle: Los Angeles ( 2011 ), End of Watch ( 2012 ), Gangster Squad ( 2013 ), American Hustle ( 2013 ), Fury ( 2014 ), Frontera ( 2014 ), The Martian ( 2015 ), Collateral Beauty ( 2016 ), CHiPs ( 2017 ), My Little Pony: The Movie ( 2017 ), Ant-Man ( 2015 ) and its sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp ( 2018 ), A Wrinkle in Time ( 2018 ), 12 Strong ( 2018 ), Dora and the Lost City of Gold ( 2019 ), Fantasy Island ( 2020 ), and Tom & Jerry ( 2021 ). Peña had the title function in Cesar Chavez ( 2014 ) and played DEA agentive role Kiki Camarena in season one of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico ( 2018 ). He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in End of Watch.
early liveliness [edit ]
Peña was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Nicolasa, a social actor, and Eleuterio Peña, a factory worker. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Peña ‘s parents were in the first place farmers, and emigrated from Mexico ; his don was from Villa Purificación, Jalisco, and his beget was from Charcas, San Luis Potosí. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He grew up in the North Lawndale area and attended Marist High School, and graduated from Hubbard High school where he participated and was a state modifier in wrestle and path. [ 7 ] He attended St. Nicholas of Tolentine Elementary School.
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Though Peña has been a unconstipated in mugwump productions since 1994, his breakthrough performances came in two Best visualize Oscar -winning Paul Haggis -penned films, Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ) and Crash ( 2004 ). The erstwhile was directed by Clint Eastwood, and the latter was directed by Haggis. Though both films are critically acclaimed, Peña received attention for his particularly aroused operation in Crash. The surveil year, he appeared on the Golden Globe -winning serial The Shield. In 2006, he starred in Oliver Stone ‘s film based on the September 11, 2001 attacks, World Trade Center. He besides had a belittled role in Alejandro González Iñárritu ‘s film Babel. This gives him the rare differentiation of having appeared in three consecutive Oscar-nominated films .
Peña as the Master of Ceremonies for the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial in 2012 In 2006, Peña starred in the HBO film Walkout as Sal Castro, a mexican-american high school teacher who inspires a group of East L.A. eminent school students to fight for Chicano rights. He starred aboard Mark Wahlberg in Shooter ( 2007 ) as novitiate FBI agentive role Nick Memphis. In 2009, he played a plaza security guard duty alongside Seth Rogen in Jody Hill ‘s Observe and Report. [ 8 ] In 2012, he co-starred with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Los Angeles police officeholder, in End of Watch. The lapp year, he began filming César Chávez, a biopic about the biography of american parturiency drawing card César Chávez, who founded the United Farm Workers. Peña stars as Chávez. [ 9 ] He appeared aboard Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, and Jon Bernthal in the World War II-set legal action film Fury ( 2014 ), [ 10 ] and portrayed Luis in Ant-Man ( 2015 ). [ 11 ] In 2015, Peña was a principal-player of the ensemble-cast for his character on board the Ares-III space-craft to Mars, in the award-winning Ridley Scott sci-film The Martian. Peña starred in 12 Strong alongside Chris Hemsworth. He besides starred in the 2018 remake of A Wrinkle in Time, where he played the main antagonist, The IT, in his human form ( known as “ Red ” ). [ 12 ] In 2020, Peña took a turn as the mysterious and enigmatic Mr. Roarke in the critically panned prequel Fantasy Island (Film) [ 13 ]
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In December 2017, it was reported that Peña had joined the project of Narcos for its approaching fourth season. [ 14 ] It was belated revealed that the fourth season would be a fresh series, Narcos: Mexico, with Peña starring as DEA agent Kiki Camarena. [ 15 ]
part acting [edit ]
Peña voiced the fictional character Ricky in the FX animated comedy Chozen. In Turbo, he voiced Tito, and in My Little Pony: The Movie, he voiced Grubber. He besides provided vocals for the character Marguerite ( in the episode ‘Hot Water ‘ ) for the popular animated series American Dad .
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In 2005, Peña formed the Los Angeles rock ring Nico Vega, named after his beget, Nicolasa. He left the band in 2007 to concentrate on his acting career, but co-wrote the path “ Beast “, which reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs Chart .
personal life [edit ]
Peña has been a member of Scientology since 2000. [ 16 ] In 2006, he married Brie Shaffer. He has one son, named Roman, born in 2008. [ 17 ]
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Lego Marvel’s Avengers | Luis | Ant-Man downloadable pack |