Bonilla Biography
E. J. Bonilla is an actor from the United States who works in both film and television. His most well-known performance was in Guiding Light as Rafe Rivera.
How old is Bonilla? Age
Bonilla is 35 years old as of September 8, 2023. He was born in 1988 in New York, New York, USA.
Bonilla Childhood, Family – Education
Puerto Rican parents welcomed Bonilla into the world in Brooklyn. He participated in poetry, dance, and band at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s John Ericsson Junior High School 126, where he also played the trumpet. He took engaged in musical theater as well in his junior and senior years of high school. Bonilla studied environmental studies in high school. When he was chosen to play Danny Zuko in a Grease production in the ninth grade, he developed an early interest in acting. After completing his high school education in 2006, he enrolled at Bard College.
Bonilla role on Chicago PD
American actor Bonilla played Danny Alvarado in the television series Chicago PD. Officer Danny Alvarado works for the Chicago Police Department. He was the covert rapist who killed his hitman and his victim, both of them were Venezuelan immigrants.
He was a combat veteran of the Army who had no serious problems. After being released from the police, he got married, started a family, and then joined the CPD to work with immigrants who were camped out in front of his station. Throughout his career, Alvarado would come into contact with Aaron Marshall, a habitual offender, and apprehend him during a drug bust outside of a trap house.
Beneath this amiable façade, however, was a sinister secret: Alvarado was a serial rapist who preyed on female immigrants, knowing that doing so would jeopardize their position in the city. The victims also had no means of paying for legal representation, so no one would come forward and accuse a police officer like him.
A Venezuelan immigrant called Gabriela Baez once filed a complaint alleging that Danny had sexually assaulted her friend Raquel Bolivar. She would later backtrack, though, after receiving threats. Later on, Gabriela became pregnant with his child, which he intended to use as an anchor, but he was afraid that if the child was born, someone would find out. Alvarado prepared to get rid of both her and the kid.
Bonilla role on The Old Man
Bonilla appeared as Raymond Waters in the American drama thriller television series The Old Man. Dan Chase is an Afghanistan veteran and former CIA agent who has spent thirty years living off the grid in Vermont. Chase hides after killing an intruder who breaks into his house. Zoe McDonald, who he rents a room from, ends up being his forced traveling companion.
Harold Harper, the FBI’s Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, is brought in to capture Chase because to their convoluted history during the Soviet-Afghan War. Alongside Harper are his protégés, Julian Carson, a hitman Harper recruited to assassinate Chase, FBI agent Angela Adams, and CIA officer Raymond Waters.
Bonilla role on The Long Road Home
Bonilla appeared as LT Shane Aguero in the American drama miniseries The Long Road Home. In the Baghdad suburb of City of Sadr, which is predominantly a Shīſa neighborhood, thousands of enemy terrorists ambush one of the platoons of the First Cavalry Division, prompting the division to undertake a rescue operation. Families of soldiers at Fort Hood are facing anxiety as news breaks. Under intense fire, Denomy conducts the first rescue into Sadr City. The locals have obviously been getting ready for this ambush for weeks.
Staff Sergeant Robert Miltenberger feels he has a premonition that he will die in Iraq prior to his deployment. Jassim’s loyalty is put to the test as his turbulent history comes to light. Aguero is forced to make a decision that would impact the platoon’s mental health going forward. Tomas Young engages in active warfare, which starts a protracted process of personal growth in him and has an impact on everyone around him.
Bonilla role on Guiding Light
Bonilla appeared as Raphael “Rafe” Rivera on the CBS daytime soap opera Guiding Light. CBS terminated the daytime drama Guiding Light in the midst of its 72nd season in order to compete with the rising popularity of reality television. With less action on conventional studio sets and a “shaky-cam” aesthetic that emphasized extreme closeups and quick cuts, the show took on a new look.
While interior sequences had a “on-location” vibe and transformed actual venues like production offices into motels, nail salons, and quick-marts, exterior shots were shot in authentic outdoor settings. The producers and CBS had hoped that the new style would boost the show’s ratings, but the strategy eventually failed. September 18, 2009 marked the conclusion of the series, which was the second-to-last Procter & Gamble soap opera to conclude.
Some of Bonilla’s Acting Credits
Movies
♦ 2024 – In Our Blood
♦ 2023 – The Exorcist: Believer
♦ 2019 – Gemini Man
♦ 2019 – The Kitchen
♦ 2013 – The House That Jack Built
♦ 2013 – Four
♦ 2011 – Yelling to the Sky
♦ 2011 – The Mortician
♦ 2011 – Mamitas
♦ 2011 – Musical Chairs
♦ 2009 – Don’t Let Me Drown
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Chicago P.D.
♦ 2022–present – The Old Man
♦ 2018 – Insecure
♦ 2018 – Bull
♦ 2017 – The Long Road Home
♦ 2017 – Madam Secretary
♦ 2015–2016 – Unforgettable
♦ 2013 – Shameless
♦ 2012–2013 – Revenge
♦ 2012 – The Big C
♦ 2011 – Blue Bloods
♦ 2010 – Cold Case
♦ 2009 – Law & Order
♦ 2009 – Bored to Death
♦ 2007–2009 – Guiding Light
♦ 2006 – The Ron Clark Story
♦ 2006 – Law & Order: Criminal Intent