David Castañeda

David Castañeda is an American actor who grew up in Sinaloa, Mexico, and returned to the United States at age four. He began college in civil engineering before switching in 2007 to film production and international business at California State University, Fullerton. He has acted since he was 17, though he began taking it seriously after volunteering for a role in a director's film during a university seminar. His early credits include minor parts in End of Watch and the lead in the short Maddoggin', which earned an audience award at NBC Universal's Short Cut Film Festival. In 2013 he played Jorge on ABC Family's Switched at Birth, and he was cast in 2016 as Hector in Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). He had a major role in El Chicano, a supporting part in We Die Young, and was cast in 2017 as Diego Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, which arrived on Netflix in 2019 and ran four seasons.