A dynamic and versatile actor, Ramón Rodríguez has crafted a
distinguished career in film and television.

Rodríguez stars in the title character and is an executive producer
on the ABC drama series “Will Trent,” based on Karin Slaughter’s
bestselling novels. His role won him the Spotlight Award at the 2023
National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Visibility Awards and also
earned him a Critics Choice TV Award nomination for Best Actor in a
Drama Series, and Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Lead
Performance in a New Scripted Series and an Imagen Award nomination
for Best Actor – Drama (Television). The series’ first season’s
success as ABC’s No. 1 new drama carried on to the second and third
seasons.

Rodríguez was most recently seen starring alongside Viola Davis in
the Amazon MGM Studios and MRC action thriller movie, “G20.”
Previously, he has starred in several critically acclaimed television
series, including HBO’s “The Wire” and Showtime’s “The
Affair.” He also starred as the lead villain role of Bakuto in two
installments of Marvel’s Netflix series “Iron Fist” and “The
Defenders.” Rodríguez starred in Fox’s one-hour drama “Gang
Related” as Ryan Lopez, a rising star in LAPD’s elite Gang Task
Force who has also pledged allegiance to a different band of brothers
– a powerful Latino crime family.

In 2009, he broke out in back-to-back action films, including
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” as Shia LaBoeuf’s
wisecracking sidekick; Tony Scott’s “The Taking of Pelham 123,“
playing an MTA dispatcher with Denzel Washington; “Battle: Los
Angeles” as the ambitious but inexperienced Lieutenant Martinez
opposite Aaron Eckhart; in Dreamwork’s exciting homage to the great
car culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s, “Need For Speed”
opposite Aaron Paul, Michael Keaton and Imogen Poots; and Jordan
Roberts film “Burn Your Maps” along with Vera Farmiga, Virginia
Madsen and rising child star Jacob Tremblay, which premiered at TIFF
in 2016. More recently he starred alongside Bryan Cranston in “The
One and Only Ivan” for Disney+, as well as horror pic,
“Lullaby,” from director John R. Leonetti.

In 2016, Rodríguez wrote and directed his first short film, “The
Language of Ball,” which had an incredible festival run being
accepted into 30+ film festivals including TIFF, LA Shorts, Holly
Shorts, Vancouver, Edmonton and Woodstock, and was licensed by Topic
and then released on Amazon.

He is deeply passionate about bringing attention to issues facing the
people of his native Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma
and Maria. He has spearheaded various relief efforts to help drive
awareness, including directing the short documentary,
“Pa’Lante,” which helped raise over $1 million toward this
effort.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN: Puerto Rico
BIRTHDATE: December 20
