Emilio Rivera

Emilio Rivera is an American actor and stand-up comedian who grew up in the Elysian Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles and got his start on stage in a third grade school production of Rumpelstiltskin. He became known for playing criminals and law enforcement officers, with early screen work that included the television series Renegade and the film Con Air. His feature credits include Traffic (2000), Ali G Indahouse (2002), A Man Apart (2003), and Hitman: Agent 47 (2015), along with appearances in Training Day, The Cable Guy, Fun with Dick and Jane, and Never Get Outta the Boat, and on television in NYPD Blue, ER, and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He played Marcus Álvarez across seven seasons of Sons of Anarchy and five seasons of its spin-off Mayans M.C.