Freddy Rodriguez: I remember being 14, 15 years old and taking the train to auditions alone and having these stage moms yelling at their kids, then looking at me like, "Where the hell's your mother?"
Freddy Rodriguez: By the time I was 17, I was on a TV show, doing choreography and dancing, and I was in a theater company. Because I was so busy, I started doing really badly in school, though.
Freddy Rodriguez: (About his role in "Six Feet Under") After I got the role, Alan pulled me aside and said, "I wrote this with you in mind." I was floored.
Freddy campaigns about the importance of reaching dreams and the pleasure of working in arts to high school students.
Rodriguez starred in the film Poseidon as Marco Valentin, a waiter who is later impaled when he dropped from the elevator shaft and is crushed flat in the scene "Shake Him Off!".
Freddy moved to Los Angeles in 1996.
In 1995, Freddy portrayed a war veteran in the Hughes Brothers action flick "Dead Presidents".
Rodriguez had always dreamed of being an actor.
Freddy received a two-year scholarship to the summer arts program at Chicago Center for the Gifted.
Freddy has two sons: Giancarlo Rodriguez and Elijah Rodriguez.
Freddy graduated from Lincoln Park High School in Chicago.
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