Biography
Frankie J. Alvarez is an American actor best known for his portrayal in the HBO series Looking and its related series finale television film, Looking: The Movie.
Age
He is 41 years old as of 10 May 2024. He was born in 1983 in Miami, Florida, United States.
Family – Education
Alvarez’s parents are both from Cuba, his father from Havana and his mother from Artemisa. Alvarez, a first-generation American born in Miami, Florida, came from a family that valued the arts. His grandmother was an opera singer, while his father played in a Puerto Rican band. His mother was a ballerina, and his three sisters performed with the Miami City Ballet.
Spanish was his first language, and he learned English by watching baseball. Alvarez attended an all-boys Jesuit prep school before enrolling in Florida State University as a Creative Writing major. Following a favorable experience at the School of Theatre, he applied to the fine arts department at Florida State University. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and moved to New York City, where he enrolled to Juilliard School. He earned the Raul Julia Memorial Scholarship and graduated in 2010.
Wife – Children
Alvarez met his wife, Leah Walsh, as a first-year student at Juilliard; she was a second-year student. They got married in May 2013. Walsh is also an actor, and the couple lives in Astoria, Queens, New York City. They’ve got two daughters.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches.
Looking
He appeared as Agustín Lanuez, 31, an artist’s assistant and Patrick’s best friend since their college days at The University of California, Berkeley in the American comedy-drama television series Looking. Agustín comes from Coral Gables, Florida, outside Miami, and grew up in an affluent Cuban American household. He is separated from his family owing to mental and physical abuse by his alcoholic father as a child.
New Amsterdam
He appeared as Carl Jiminez in the American medical drama television series New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam follows Dr. Max Goodwin as he takes over as medical director of one of the oldest public hospitals in the United States, with the goal of reforming the neglected facility by tearing down its bureaucracy in order to provide exceptional patient care.
Book
Alvarez is also an audiobook narrator, having been on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s audio version of Measure for Measure as well as narrating works by Héctor Tobar, Justin Torres, and Sebastian Rotella.
Career
Alvarez, a gifted entertainer, started his acting profession at Juilliard and prepared at the Chautauqua Theater Organization. He showed up in a few plays, including Demise of a Sales rep and A Midsummer Night’s Fantasy, and won an honor for Remarkable Lead Entertainer in a Play at the 2010 Midtown Global Theater Celebration. In the wake of graduating, he acted in territorial theater, including Ramona Quimby, Julius Caesar, and Measure for Measure. His exhibitions at the Oregon Shakespeare Celebration prompted his enlistment to Asolo Repertory Theater, where he played Hamlet in Hamlet: Ruler of Cuba, a Spanish and English-language variation of the Shakespeare play.
In 2013, he acted in the Entertainers Theater of Louisville’s development of The Whipping Man, where he depicted Caleb, an injured Jewish Confederate trooper in the American Nationwide conflict. The play got positive audits and Alvarez was lauded for his nuanced and sympathetic execution. He teamed up with Gabriel Ebert on the melodic Those Lost Young men, which debuted at the 2013 Ars Nova All New Ability Fest and featured again in 2014.
Alvarez’s most memorable significant TV job was as the primary person Agustín in the 2014 HBO series Looking, which centers around the existences of three youthful gay men living in San Francisco. He at first tried out for the job of Richie Ventura, yet was given a role as Agustín subsequent to talking with series maker Michael Lannan. The person was changed to a profoundly instructed local U.S. resident of Cuban plunge, utilizing a portion of Alvarez’s own qualities, delivering a depiction of bicultural Latin-Americans that was not seen all the more habitually in media.
Movies
♦ 2021 – The Drummer
♦ 2019 – Vandal
♦ 2017 – Rockaway
♦ 2014 – Aphasia
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Fantasy Island
♦ 2023 – The Blacklist
♦ 2022 – Let the Right One In
♦ 2019 – New Amsterdam
♦ 2018 – It’s Freezing Out There
♦ 2017 – Blindspot
♦ 2017 – Controversy
♦ 2016 – Looking: The Movie
♦ 2016 – Blue Bloods
♦ 2015 – Madam Secretary
♦ 2015 – The Good Wife
♦ 2015 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2014–2015 – Looking
♦ 2013 – Smash