Bernardo Badillo

Bernardo Badillo is an actor who was born in 1980 and raised in Anaheim, California. He attended Mater Dei High School and later studied theater at the University of California, Los Angeles, where his instructors included Jacque Heim, Jose Luis Valenzuela, and Moctesuma Esparza. After earning a B.A. in Theater with an acting emphasis, he moved to Manhattan, New York, for a three-year graduate acting program at the Actors Studio Drama School. His training there included work with Ron Leibman, Susan Aston, and Barbara Poitier, and he also took dance classes at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio. Once he had his M.F.A., he returned to Southern California. A week after his return, he was cast in Walkout, which Edward James Olmos directed, and he has since worked in film, television, commercials, and print.