Freddy Rodriguez

Freddy or Freddie Rodriguez may refer to:

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Freddy Rodríguez (artist)

Freddy Rodríguez (born 1945) is an artist from the Dominican Republic who has lived and worked in the United States since 1963. Much of his work takes the form of large, colorful geometric abstractions. His paintings have been widely exhibited and are held in several important collections.

Life

Freddy Rodríguez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic in 1945. His family were artists. Rodríguez immigrated to the United States in 1963 at the age of eighteen. In New York he spent much time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was particularly interested in the work of Piet Mondrian. He studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and The New School, and obtained a degree in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. In the 1980s he joined with several other Dominican visual artists including Bismark Victoria, Eligio Reynoso, Magno Laracuente and Tito Canepa to form the "Dominican Visual Artists of New York". This group succeeded in obtaining sponsorship for exhibitions of Dominican Art in popular locations. In 1991 the New York Foundation for the Arts named him "Gregory Millard Fellow in Painting". In 1992 he was a NYSCA Artist in Residence at El Museo del Barrio.

Freddy Rodriguez (actor)

Freddy Rodriguez (born January 17, 1975) is an American actor known for playing the characters Hector Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's Six Feet Under and El Wray in Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. In 2007 he was a recurring cast member on the series Ugly Betty as Giovanni "Gio" Rossi.

Early life

Rodriguez was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican parents - a housewife mother and a janitor father. He was raised Roman Catholic. When he was 13, Freddy discovered a theater program for inner-city youth, which led to a scholarship to the Pulaski International School of Chicago, which he attended through 8th grade. Rodriguez is a graduate of the drama program at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago.

Career

His first recognizable roles in films came in 1995, as Pedro Aragon, Jr. in A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Giancarlo Giannini and as a Vietnam veteran in Dead Presidents with Larenz Tate and Chris Tucker. Rodriguez went on to roles such as Ninja in The Pest, an obnoxious jock in Can't Hardly Wait and the television show Scrubs as Carla's brother Marco. As a voice actor, he contributed the voice of Más y Menos on Teen Titans.