Guillermo Díaz (actor)

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Guillermo Díaz

Born March 22, 1971 (1971-03-22) (age 37)
New Jersey, USA

Guillermo Díaz (born March 22, 1971) is a Cuban-American actor.

He was born in New Jersey, the son of Cuban-born parents. Díaz, who grew up in New York City, has starred in movies such as Half Baked (1998), 200 Cigarettes (1999) and Stonewall (1995).

Díaz has had several TV guest appearances on such shows as Chappelle's Show, Law & Order, Weeds and ER.

In 2006, he joined the cast of a popular series of improv-based commercials for Sierra Mist titled Mist Takes. A Spanish version of the advertisements began airing and the bilingual Díaz also starred in those with other Latino comedians.

Diaz is openly gay[1] and has been throughout his career. He has been praised for his ability to play a versatile range of characters including but not limited to gay ones, including gangsters, drug dealers and other roles typically associated with heterosexual actors.

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In 1994, Guillermo landed his first speaking role as "Spike" in Boaz Yakin's Fresh. From there he began working on Party Girl as "Leo", Parker Posey's roommate. His next role was a drag queen (“La Miranda”) in Nigel Finch's critically acclaimed Stonewall. 1996 found Díaz acting in Jim McKay's Girls' Town as "Dylan"-- starring Lili Taylor. After wrapping Girls' Town, Guillermo got to work with seasoned veteran actor Walter Matthau in I'm Not Rappaport.

With a strong buzz beginning to build about his work, Guillermo was asked to take a leap of faith and portray "Paco Rodríguez", a high school gang member in High School High -- co-starring Jon Lovitz. With his convincing work in High School High, he obtained a role in Freeway as "Flaco", another gang member. While in Los Angeles, Guillermo did guest spots on ER and Party of Five.

After finishing work on the west coast, he traveled back east to shoot Brian Sloan's film I Think I Do playing the stoner "Eric". A similar role then opened for Díaz; he scored the role of the "Scarface" in the cult classic Half Baked. In 1999 he landed a non-speaking role in 200 Cigarettes, and went on to act in Ethan Hawke's directorial debut Chelsea Walls, starring Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei and Natasha Richardson.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Interview with Guillermo Diaz

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NAME Díaz, Guillermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1971 (1971-03-22) (age 37)
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey, USA
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH