Andre Royo is an American actor, producer and writer. He is best known for his role as Reginald ‘Bubbles’ Cousins in the HBO crime series ‘The Wire’ and for his performance in Fringe, Party Down, ‘How to Make It in America’ and also in the 2013 film. ‘The Spectacular Now’. He appears as Lucious Lyon defense attorney ‘Terrence Howard’ Thirsty Rawlings in the hit FOX Empire drama series.
Royo created his acting debut in a very character within the 1998 film LA Without a Map. In 1999, he created guest appearances on an episode on the Law & Order and Third Watch TV series. Additionally, in Law & Order’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ episode, Mr. Royo can be seen sitting in the courtroom audience, directly behind the defendant.
In 2000, he had a small role in John Singleton’s remake of the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft. He also appeared in the 2002 film G, based on The Great Gatsby. Royo is generally best known for his starring role on HBO’s drama series The Wire due to junkie and confidential whistleblower Reginald ‘Bubbles’ Cousins, a regular since the show’s first season.
Royo’s portrayal of this character was therefore compelling that, while filming on location, he was once approached by a Baltimore resident and given a small pack of heroin, with the man’s voice communication to the character. Royo: ‘Dude, you need a fix more than me. ‘Royo called this incident his’ street Oscar’.
In 2008, he made a brief appearance in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as a soldier in a unit that was sent back in time. In the same year, he was introduced as the character Stephen Canfield during the third season of the television series Heroes. In 2008, Royo jointly competes in the role of a drug-confirmed homeless killer in Criminal Minds’ fourth season episode “Catching Out.”
In October 2009, Royo starred in a Harvard University panel discussion alongside other The Wire actors Sonja Sohn and Michael K. Williams. The panel mentioned The Wire’s value as a source of risky media that young people will relate to and draw positive life lessons from. In 2010, Royo was a guest on the original Starz Party Down series.
In the same year, he guest-starred in the season three premiere and episode seven and eighteenth of the Fox Fringe television series, playing a taxi driver in the parallel universe. In 2012, Royo appeared in NBC’s crime drama Prime Suspect as Santana Cordero, an accused killer who kills witnesses before being tried. In the 2012 film Red Tails he plays Antwan ‘Coffee’ Coleman.
Royo then played the alcoholic father of a bully in a Key & Peele sketch. In 2013, Royo played geometry teacher Mr. Aster in the 2013 romantic drama-comedy film The Spectacular. Royo was a guest, playing Otis in the episode ‘Trading Faces’ in Paul Scheer’s action comedy series NTSF: SD: SUV :: in Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim night block. He then was a guest voice on Bob’s Burgers episode ‘Nude Beach’ having fun, and then voiced an exterminator named Marcus in a 2014 episode titled ‘Tina and the Real Ghost’.
He appeared in the 2015 drama Lila & Eve, as a character named Skaketti, alongside Jennifer Lopez and Viola Davis. In 2015, Royo appears in Marvel’s Agent Carter series playing Spider Raymond, the WHO ran the night club ‘La Martinique’, however, he became an additional infamous Associate merchandiser in Nursing misbr.
He also appears in Showtime’s Happyish as Barry, a mutual friend of the main characters, Thom and Lee Payne. In Amazon Prime’s Hand of God, Royo plays San Vincente Mayor Robert ‘Bobo’ Boston. In Fox’s Empire, she plays Thirsty Rawlings, an ambiguous defense attorney.
ANDRE ROYO AGE
Andre Royo is an American actor, producer and writer. He was born on July 18, 1968, in the Bronx, New York City, NY. He is 51 years old in 2019.
ANDRE ROYO FAMILY
Royo was born in the Bronx, New York, of African American and Cuban origins. Royo has often been told by casting directors that he is ‘not black enough’ or ‘not Latin enough’ for some parts. He attended Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx from 1982 to 1986. He did not disclose details of his father, mother, brother and sisters. The information is under review and will be updated shortly.
ANDRE ROYO WIFE | CHILDREN
He is married to Jane Choi and together they have a daughter named Stella. The couple married on November 21, 1997. His wife co-owns a restaurant in Los Angeles called Canelé. During his struggling phase, Royo was often told he was ‘not black enough’ or ‘not Latin enough’ by the casting directors. He once said he was turned away from the craft serving table on the set of HBO’s The Wire because Royo looked homeless while playing the character of Bubbles.
NET WORTH OF ANDRE ROYO
Royo is an American actor. He has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million in 2019. Without a map ”. He appeared in ‘Law & Order’, ‘Third Watch’, ‘Wonderland’ and ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ before getting his best known part as Bubbles on HBO’s hit drama series ‘The Wire’ since 2002 to 2008.
ANDRE ROYO HEIGHT
It stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) and weighs 70 kg (154 lbs). He has black hair, dark brown eye color and his sexual orientation is straight.
ANDRE ROYO THE WIRE
The actor is widely known for his starring role on the HBO crime series ‘The Wire’ as drug addict and confidential whistleblower Reginald ‘Bubbles’ Cousins, a regular character since the show’s first season. His portrayal of this character was so compelling that, while filming on location, he was once approached by a Baltimore resident and given a small pack of heroin, with the man telling him, ‘Dude. , you need a solution more than me. ‘he called this incident his’ street Oscar’.
In October 2009, he appeared at a Harvard University panel discussion alongside other The Wire actors Sonja Sohn and Michael K. Williams. The panel discussed the value of The Wire as an at-risk media source that young people can relate to and learn positive life lessons from. In 2010, he was a guest on the original Starz Party Down series. In the same year, he guest-starred in the season three premiere and episode seven and eighteenth of the Fox Fringe television series, playing a taxi driver in the parallel universe.
ANDRE ROYO AWARD
In 2016 he won a Special Jury Award at the ‘SXSW’ Film Festival for his role in Hunter-Gatherer
ANDRE ROYO EMPIRE
He is featured as Thirsty Rawlings, defense attorney for Lucious Lyon ‘Terrence Howard’, on FOX’s hit drama series ‘Empire’.
Empire is an American musical drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong for Fox. It is a joint production of Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television.
Although shot in Chicago, the show is set in New York. The series centers on the fictional hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama between members of the founding family as they battle for control.
ANDRE ROYO SVU
He played the role of Felix Santos in the ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ series.
ANDRE ROYO BEAUTIFUL BOY
Andre Royo talks about ‘Beautiful Boy’
While offering an in-depth insight into addiction, the ‘The Wire’ star gets a very enjoyable interview at the Chicago International Film Fest.
Andre Royo spent a minute with Reel Chicago on the Beautiful Boy red carpet during the Chicago International Film Festival last week.
The actor who has won millions of fans over seven seasons on The Wire plays the role of Spencer in the highly animated film by Belgian director Felix Van Gueringen, which launched the 2018 program at AMC River East on October 10.
According to IMDb, Beautiful Boy ‘chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family dealing with addiction for many years’.
Starring Steve Carrell, Timothée Chalamet , and Maura Tierney, Beautiful Boy inspired more than one critic to describe Oscar’s profound impact and instant value. The film is based on the published memoirs of David and Nic Sheff, the real-life father and son who lived through the story
In the film, Royo plays Spencer, the drug treatment sponsor of Nic, the teenage son who deals with addiction played by Chalamet.
Even though the actor shrugged off our praise for the success of Beautiful Boy and insisted that the credit goes to the main cast, he is still an excellent representative of the film.
While offering a profound insight into the severity of the theme, Royo maintained a high level of charisma which made it one of the most enjoyable interviews at the festival. He referred to his personal life and professional experience during the conversation and had a special joy in describing the inspiration he receives from two people in particular: his mother and daughter.
ANDRE ROYO FRINGE
His appearances in Fringe, Party Down, ‘How to Make It in America’ played a major role in making him famous. The 50-year-old appeared as the seventh and eighteenth episodes of the Fox television series “Fringe,” playing a taxi driver in the parallel universe.
ANDRE ROYO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
Title Role Year
Empire (programma televisivo) – Thurston ‘Thirsty’ Rawlings – 2017
Hand of God (programma televisivo) – Robert ‘Bobo’ Boston -;
Drunk Story (TV Program) – 2015
Drunk History USA (programma TV) – -;
Happyish (programma televisivo) –Barry -;-
Elementary (TV show) – Thaddeus – 2013
The Spectacular Now (Film) -; –
Red Tails (Film) – Antwan ‘Coffee’ Coleman – – 2012
Bigfoot (TV show) – Al Hunter – -;
How to Make It in America (TV Show) – Kevin – 2011
Fringe (programma televisivo) – Henry Arliss Higgins – 2010 – 2011
Super (film) – Hamilton – 2010
NUMB3RS (TV show) – Tim Pynchon – 2009
Criminal Minds (television show) – Armando Salinas – 2008
The Wire (television program) – Bolle -;
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Show) – Sumner -;
CSI: Miami (TV show) – Julio Pena – 2005
Cuts (TV show) – George -;
G (film) – Tracy ‘Tre’ Newman – 2002
Shaft (film) – Tattoo -;
