Nicholas Gonzalez is best known for portraying the roles of Alex Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Blvd and Dr Neil Melendez on the ABC television series The Good Doctor.
19 Facts About Nicholas Gonzalez
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Nicholas Gonzalez is the son of a dermatologist surgeon, Dr John Gonzalez, and his mother is Sylvia Mosier.
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Nicholas Gonzalez has an older brother named John Joseph Gonzalez and a younger sister named Madeline Mosier.
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Nicholas Gonzalez attended Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, where he was an accomplished cross-country and track runner, winning the Texas State Championship in the mile and two-mile.
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Nicholas Gonzalez spent two terms at Oxford University in England.
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Nicholas Gonzalez was approached to do a one-man theater piece called Gas by Maria Irene Fornes.
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Nicholas Gonzalez was once encouraged to use his middle name Edward to conceal his ethnicity and go by "Nicholas Edward" but declined to do so.
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In 1998, Nicholas Gonzalez moved to Los Angeles, where he landed small parts in television series such as ABC's Dharma and Greg and NBC's One World.
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Nicholas Gonzalez then appeared as Fidel Castro's son in the Lifetime television movie My Little Assassin, starring Joe Mantegna and Gabrielle Anwar.
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Nicholas Gonzalez's landed the lead in Showtime's original series Resurrection Blvd.
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Nicholas Gonzalez played Alex Santiago, a pre-med student who dropped out of school to become a professional boxer.
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Nicholas Gonzalez appeared in the film The Princess and the Barrio Boy with his Resurrection Blvd.
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Nicholas Gonzalez continued his career in films with two more titles.
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Nicholas Gonzalez costarred in the Lifetime series Witches of East End.
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Nicholas Gonzalez appeared in recurring roles as Detective Marco Furey in Freeform's series Pretty Little Liars, antagonist Dominick Flores on How to Get Away with Murder and the boyfriend of Lisa Vidal's character on Being Mary Jane.
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Nicholas Gonzalez guest-starred on Narcos as an undercover DEA special agent based in Colombia investigating the Cali Cartel, a role which required him to speak Spanish.
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Nicholas Gonzalez provided the physical Performance of Nick Mendoza in the video game Battlefield: Hardline.
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In 2017 Nicholas Gonzalez was cast as a series regular in the role of surgeon Dr Neil Melendez in the medical drama The Good Doctor, his most high-profile role to date.
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Nicholas Gonzalez finished 2nd at the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in 2009.