Michael Peña

Birthday: Jan 13, 1976
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Bio: Adept at essaying a broad array of roles, Michael Peña launched his career with guest appearances on such series as NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, and ER, as well as longer stints on Felicity and The Shield. Though his big-screen work officially stretches back several years prior to Million Dollar Baby (2004), that Clint Eastwood-directed Best Picture… More Bio: Adept at essaying a broad array of roles, Michael Peña launched his career with guest appearances on such series as NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, and ER, as well as longer stints on Felicity and The Shield. Though his big-screen work officially stretches back several years prior to Million Dollar Baby (2004), that Clint Eastwood-directed Best Picture winner represented Peña's first major Hollywood credit. His involvement only amounted to a small part, but he re-teamed with Baby scripter Paul Haggis for higher (supporting) billing in the latter's Crash (2005) -- also a Best Picture Winner, and this one a searing, acerbic indictment of inner-city racism. Peña scored one of his first leads under the aegis of director Oliver Stone, co-starring opposite Nicolas Cage in the taut, suspenseful thriller World Trade Center (2006) -- a docudrama about the two New York City Port Authority rescue workers trapped beneath the rubble of the fifth building when the towers fell. Peña followed it up with a turn as a genial, resourceful FBI agent who assists a government-conned scapegoat (Mark Wahlberg) in Antoine Fuqua's conspiracy thriller Shooter (2007), and essayed a key supporting role in director Robert Redford's ensemble drama Lions for Lambs, opposite Redford, Meryl Streep, and Tom Cruise. As the years followed, Pena would find continued success in comedy endeavours like Observe and Report, 30 Minutes or Less, and Tower Heist, as well as on the TV series Eastbown & Down. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Million Dollar Baby

End of Watch

The Lincoln Lawyer

Crash

Filmography

Turbo (2013)
- Actor
Turbo: An IMAX Experience (2013)
- Actor
Gangster Squad (2013)
- Navidad Ramirez
- 32%
Chavez (2013)
- Cesar E. Chavez
End of Watch (2012)
- Officer Zavala
- 85%
The Good Doctor (2012)
- Jimmy
- 64%
Tower Heist (2011)
- Enrique Dev'Reaux
- 69%
30 Minutes or Less (2011)
- Chango
- 45%
Everything Must Go (2011)
- Frank Garcia
- 75%
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
- Joe Rincon
- 35%
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
- Jesus Martinez
- 83%
Pinkville (2011)
- Capt. Ernest Medina
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
- Detective Vargas
- 50%
Observe and Report (2009)
- Dennis
- 51%
Pinkville (2009)
- Actor
The Lucky Ones (2008)
- TK Poole
- 36%
Lions for Lambs (2007)
- Ernest Rodriguez
- 26%
Shooter (2007)
- Nick Memphis
- 48%
Babel (2006)
- John Border Patrol
- 69%
World Trade Center (2006)
- Will Jimeno
- 68%
Fifty Pills (2006)
- Eduardo
Walkout (2006)
- Sal Castro
Little Athens (2005)
- Actor
- 40%
Sueño (2005)
- Actor
- 43%
Crash (2005)
- Daniel
- 75%
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Omar
- 91%
The Calcium Kid (2004)
- Jose Mendez
- 0%
Love Object (2003)
- Ramirez
- 42%
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
- Garcia
- 73%
Bellyfruit (Belly Fruit) (1999)
- Actor
Boogie Boy (1997)
- Actor
Running Free (1994)
- Actor, Director
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Michael Peña Videos
                        
Battle: Los Angeles3 minutes 34 seconds

The Lincoln Lawyer1 minute

30 Minutes Or Less3 minutes 32 seconds

Everything Must Go3 minutes 31 seconds

Tower Heist2 minutes 3 seconds

Turbo3 minutes 32 seconds

Gangster Squad3 minutes 32 seconds

End Of Watch2 minutes 28 seconds

The Good Doctor2 minutes 25 seconds

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done2 minutes 18 seconds

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