Nicholas Edward Gonzalez (born January 3, 1976 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Mexican descent, best known for playing Alex Santiago in the TV series Resurrection Blvd..
Gonzalez was a student at San Antonio’s Central Catholic High School. He became an accomplished cross-country and track runner, winning the Texas State Championship in the mile and two mile. After graduating in 1994 and turning down a presidential appointment to We...
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Nicholas Edward Gonzalez (born January 3, 1976 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Mexican descent, best known for playing Alex Santiago in the TV series Resurrection Blvd..
Gonzalez was a student at San Antonio’s Central Catholic High School. He became an accomplished cross-country and track runner, winning the Texas State Championship in the mile and two mile. After graduating in 1994 and turning down a presidential appointment to West Point, Nicholas pursued an English degree at Stanford University in California.
His interest and love of literature, history, and poetry led him to two terms at Oxford University in England. The following summer, he returned to Europe on a research grant where he studied with scholars at Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin to complete his thesis on James Joyce’s Ulysses.
While finishing his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1998, Nicholas was approached to do a one-man theatre piece called Gas by Marie Irene Fornes.
Alma Martinez, an actress...
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