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Born in Puerto Rico in 1967. Intending to follow his family into law, he enrolled on a business course at the University of California in San Diego. After taking an acting class in his first year he decided to drop out, much to the distress of his father. He studied with Stella Adler and paid for his tuition by helping build one of her school's theatres. Most of his early roles were either as drug lords or their henchman, the exception being his forgettable movie debut playing Duke the Dog Faced Boy in a Pee Wee Herman film. People eventually got beyond the dark circles under his eyes, and he came to attention by mumbling almost incomprehensibly in The Usual Suspects before his Oscar success for Traffic.
