Raymond Cruz Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality American
Birth July 9, 1961 (Los Angeles – California, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Raymond Cruz discovered his vocation as an actor thanks to the film Du silence et des ombres , which he saw for the first time during a school trip to the cinema with his class. He made his first steps in front of the camera in 1987 in Maid to Order , with Ally Sheedy , then continued with appearances in series like West Coast and Rick Hunter , as well as in Gremlins 2, the next generation , released on screens in 1990 and which allows it to be directed by Joe Dante .

The public then finds him in the credits of numerous feature films, including Trap on the High Seas , Immediate Danger , which sees his character, Domingo Chavez, lending a hand to Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe , Personal and Confidential , alongside Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer , or even The Substitute . But we had to wait until 1997 and Alien, the resurrection of Jean-Pierre Jeunet for the actor to finally gain greater visibility thanks to his interpretation of Vincent Distephano, who joined forces with Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ) and Annalee Call ( Winona Ryder ) to try to escape the aliens.

From the start of the 2000s, however, it was towards television that Cruz mainly turned. He appears notably in episodes of 24 Hours and Nip/Tuck , as well as recurring in the third season of Earl , in the guise of Paco, the former roommate of the hero played by Jason Lee . In 2005, the production of The Closer: LA Priority Investigations offered him the role of Inspector Julio Sanchez, member of the Major Crimes division of the Los Angeles police, who then really revealed it. At the end of the adventure, in 2012, Raymond Cruz naturally joined the cast of Major Crimes , a spin-off in the form of a sequel which sees Mary McDonnell succeed Kyra Sedgwick at the head of the team of investigators.

At the same time, between 2008 and 2009, he also starred in the role of drug lord Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad , created by Vince Gilligan , and, to the delight of fans of the series, found this striking character in 2015, time for two episodes of Better Call Saul, a sort of prequel centered on the life of lawyer Jimmy McGill ( Bob Odenkirk ), before he became Saul Goodman.

Jeremy Dunand