Gregory Cruz

Gregory Cruz is an actor who came to the profession after working in telemarketing and construction. On television he has taken lead, recurring, and guest roles on series such as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, The Pretender, and Judging Amy, as well as The X-Files, NYPD Blue, Criminal Minds, In Plain Sight, and CSI: New York. He also acted in Tecumseh and Vietnam War Story, and he took on the part of Richard Ramírez, a serial killer, in Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker. His stage work includes main-stage productions at El Teatro Campesino, then at The Taper Too, as well as Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Denver Center Theatre Company. In New York he originated the role of Knuckles in the play Noah's Archives, staged at the Ohio Theatre. He was a founder of the Los Angeles group Friends & Artists Theater Ensemble and won a Drama-Logue Award for Macheath in The Three Penny Opera.